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    12 Lead EKG interpretations: let's do it!!!

    1st deg block, LBBB, LVH, ischemia.
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    Aspirin anti-platelet onset?

    Ok I tried looking up the study, but I can't seem to find it! These links got me pretty close: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122296983/issue http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122305342/issue I would be very curious to see how rapid the absorption of aspirin is. The...
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    Back Me Up: Actual Certification Needed for Private Hire?

    Hey Life- that was a good post up there. Thanks
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    Do you sport a favorite type of undies?

    I prefer clean ones, hands down!
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    Aspirin anti-platelet onset?

    Thanks for the links. The article mentions levels of ASA being detectable after 45 minutes. I wonder just how fast it really does begin get into the bloodstream. I will look up the study itself this weekend. I ask because, since it is administered it in the field for an AMI, I assumed that...
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    Aspirin anti-platelet onset?

    Does anybody know how quickly the antithrombotic effects of ASA appear after buccal absorption? The ways my pharmacology texts word it is still unclear to me. Thanks!
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    Where is everyone from?

    Whose?
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Just don't tell your patient! EMT: "It's OK- I may have barely graduated my class, but I'm still an EMT!" Pt: "Oh, great... are we at the hospital yet?" EMT: "No, we still have time. Here, I'm going to start an IV and run some fluids into you. It will only hurt for a second." Pt: "Why do...
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    Driving the Amb. Help.

    My 2 cents is never drive faster than your PARTNER is comfortable with, either!
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    Sternal Rubs/Painful Stimulus

    OK, I feel like I'm setting myself up, but I have to ask... What's wrong with the hand drop test? I mean, as long as you use another test for responsiveness as well?
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    General impression

    + another 1 If you see a spurting artery, penetrating chest wound, etc., deal with that IMMEDIATELY upon pt. contact! This can be as fast and simple as just putting a (gloved- it had better be gloved) hand onto the wound to seal it right then and there. It it an autofail if you do not! Then...
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    You might be a redneck FF-EMT if...

    Redneck FF How about when you call your fellow responders to tell them that you'll be doing a large illegal burn today and they all respond with, "OK, I didn't hear that. Let me know if you need some help."
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    medical myths

    Oh, and that the Zombie Virus is real, and to be feared. Superstitious folk down here in the Borderland.
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    medical myths

    That you're safer not wearing a seatbelt, so that you don't get trapped in a bad TC. People around here still believe that one with some regularity, even as the evening news tells us about another weekly set of vehicle ejection fatalities. Go figure.
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    Talk me out of it

    Hey, that's great news! I can't wait to tell my wife! :glare:
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