Recent content by Rangat

Well you need both a "face" and "Facebook" in order to interface with the application. Considering the short question times (which I cant change), if you get above 1000 you definitely know your stuff. Anyone up for thinking of a few more nice questions to add?

Greetings, for those out there who use the social platform, Facebook, I have created an application called Know-It-All PARAMEDIC trivia challenge. Please do the trivia, and send me feedback on the question quality, and especially appreciated would be some new questions. NJoy...

Ridryder, how does CHF affect the long term Na, Ca, Mg and K plasma levels?

Your sublingual muscles receive blood from four arteries, and shut down later than your peripheries. If you need to intubate, but don't have IV access, how do you feel about giving s choline IM sublingualy? I know your protocols will be against it, I'm asking your thoughts on the theory?

I don't see how you can screw it up? Maybe if you trained a long time ago and your skills are rusty? Didn't do good at anatomy? Ive only seen them done, but they are VERY smooth, quick, and a lot less harmful than a cricothyroidotomy. And he said the larynx had the potential to bleed lots, and...

So, what's the last time you old school CCP's did a retrograde intubation?:) Successful pre-hospital retrograde intubation - patient was a passenger in a truck which slammed into the back of another. This guy had some sort of disease of the throat and visualising the cords was just not...

I wish there was ANY pre-hospital course in South Africa I could just listen in class and then not fail...?

Electric Mountain Cabbage anyone?

So what are your opinions on the masses of paramedics who act like rally drivers, and die of old age? These are all photos taken during responses in SA.

Jugular? Femoral?

The paramedic rode along on a TBI, but then put up a NS (I'm assuming small bore catheter)??? Sounds like lack of diagnostic confidence? If you deem ALS Rx necessary, you do it properly. Go big or go home. Either you put up a 14G with HTS/RL, notify the neurologist, get your ETT and Pipe...

Greetings, I need to do an article on ethics in the pre-hospital field. Thought I might concentrate on publishings of patients on the internet, and the reason the profession lacks maturity. (Lack of scholars):ph34r: I desperately need information on this? help?:wacko:

Come to South Africa. I guarantee 4 GSW's, 5 Stabbings, and 8 MVA's in a weekend. Then go do a professional degree in Emergency Medical Care somewhere. Then pay off your study loans hehe

ok thanks. But are you saying this because you know it, or because you have actually compared them?:)

Greetings all ye Yankies- I would once again like your opinion. I'm starting with my third year of study in February. (I think you call them Juniors?) I feel I need a solid emergency airway management book, because in the past the questions and orals went far beyond the info that was...