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?