I'm sure I'm about to be a not so popular guy here. As someone who operates within a fire based system I'm trying to figure out where you work where you've got a battalion, engine, and truck showing up on a medical call. Cardiac arrest: engine and medic. Fall: engine and medic. Chest pain...
"County show engine 1 on scene we've got a 1000 sq foot chicken coop fully involved show engine 1 out on fire attack."
"Engine 1 has chicken coop command."
County laughing over the radio " received chicken coop command."
Mutual aid engine for water. "We're bringin the tater salad so make sure...
I too am going with sepsis. IV access two if possible and get the fluids goin. I'm leaning hard towards RSI with the information presented. You've got a 2 year old that's breathing 40 times a minute and their sats are at 89%.... How much longer can this kid keep that up? I'd rather intubate...
Station wear is - Nomex pants and a polo. I carry a benchmade triage knife and a pen in my polo sleeve pocket.
Bunker pants - left pocket is a channellock the rescue tool (89 version.) 25 feet of webbing. left pocket 50 feet of rescue rope attached to a carabiner, golf ball, and a couple bucks...
Our Kings got taken away in our system as with many systems in our area. We have the good ole ET or an I-gel...... My advice is don't miss because the I-gel is garbage. We've got a pretty agressive RSI protocol and track record here just because of transport times and the nature of calls we...
I will give them props in they made a decision and stuck with it. Right, wrong, or indifferent making a decision is something for a lot of people that is extremely hard to do. I gave my two cents above but instead of focusing just on the things done wrong I wanted to give you props on...
This is tricky because of the change of mental status so quickly back to A&OX4. I'd lean more towards TIA. Calling for an ALS ambulance I feel is the right decision because it could of been something as simple as little heat exhaustion or something as serious as you mentioned earlier, a...
Oh and I'd be doing a 12 lead in the house or facility, wherever I was at. I've had an asymptomatic 3rd degree heart block with a chief complaint of I don't feel right. It's something that will take 15 seconds to apply and run which could help you better prepare for what could go wrong. As...
We try. We don't have a community paramedic but with two stations and building our third we're able to reach out a bit more than some systems. We only cover 40,000 people so once that goes up hopefully we can continue doing what we're doing. I'll get those strips and a copy of the manufactures...