Recent content by RedheadErin

I am trying to finish my con-ed requirements so I can renew my NREMT-B certification. However, I am finding 2 completely different sets of instructions! It looks like they changed from the 72-hour requirement with a refresher course, to a 40-hour requirement. Does anyone know if this is...

Duh! I forgot the PulseOx. :unsure: But that is why I am asking current practicing EMTs on this board, because you guys know and remember stuff like that. My instructor has been out of the field for years, and my friends are just as clueless as I am (in fact, I think I am the valedictorian so...

So here's a question: Say I get out on a call similar to the ones I was asking about. (a real call, not something I have to get through in order to get out of this class) Let's assume the patient cut of 3 fingers with a circular saw. (no c-spine trauma) He is in horrible pain and he knows...

It came up in class the other day, but I was focusing on how to operate the King tube, so I wasn't really paying attention. Is there ever a situation in which you would put an airway, such as a King tube, in a seizure patient? I have seen a few patients who were postictal, and while they...

Just for curiosity, what is a better book to use? Thanks to y'all, I am thoroughly disgusted with this book I had issues with it, anyway, like the way it tells you to use oxygen but doesn't give you any suggestions as to how much, contradictions in the text, and general poor organization.

Trendelenburg isn't effective? Holy smokes! :blink: When was that decided? This book is ALL ABOUT Trendelenburg. I hate to think I will be standing patients on their heads for no good reason:unsure:

My book has a section about MAST (PASG) pants. It says they are "relatively contraindicated for treatment of shock." What exactly does "relatively contraindicated" mean, and why does it apply to the PASG? Also, the book lists quite a few reasons NOT to use the PASG, but is extremely vague...

Nope. American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons EMERGENCY Care and Transportation of the sick and injured 10th edition, (c) 2013. It's right here on their website. http://emt.emszone.com/docs/CH10_AEC_Table.pdf I understand this is not what you (or maybe anyone) would do in the field...

I missed this when I wrote the last reply. THAT is exactly what I needed to know. What would I do? If he is P, C, & D, I would put him in Trendelenburg's Position, give him a blanket, and give some O2. Since his problem in these scenarios is relatively minor, I would give low-flow O2, but...

I agree with you. I was a medic in the national Guard and I was an ER Tech a long time ago, and I don't always think he is right. But this week, he is the person who determines whether I am going to sit for the National or go back and do this class again. So yeah, until Thursday, if he says...

Yep. That is my problem exactly. I have to prepare myself for something like 60 possible scenarios. The instructor likes to think up anything and everything that might happen/be considered/ever be imagined, so I want to be ready. If he says "YOur patient is in horrible pain because he cut...

Thank you. That was what I wanted to know.

How would that qualify me as a troll? :unsure:It's a reasonable question.

For my final, I am being presented with a number of non-life-threatening but still painful and frightening injury scenarios. (Example, a pencil to the eye, amputated finger, etc) I want to give my pretend patients oxygen as a prophylactic against psychogenic shock. How much do I give?

Awesome! So then it seems like a test like the Cinci Stroke Scale is really the only reliable indicator of stroke in the field, unless they get so far as cerebral edema/ Cushing's Triad?