Recent content by Stewart1990

If there is one ambulance, 2 EMS personell and 3 patients, this is considered a mass casualty incident. Mass casualty triage dictates that once someones code black, theres no going back. By all means, if you could diferentiate that the injuries of the moderate trauma weren't 'life threatening'...

Employer requirement. You have to be able to present it if a patient demands to see it.

Were required to carry our originals on us, if were gonna even think about getting on a truck, when i lost mine i was kicked off the trucks till i got my new one.

I just had that happen to me too, don't feel bad. All I had to do was go to my instructor and he said no problem. I panicked when I lost mine and even called the AHA to try to get a replacement.

Very true- all you can really do is keep them in position of comfort, suction if neccesary......and maybe CPAP'em if the begin to decompensate

The only thing I can think of as a contraindication for O2 would be hypoxic drive. BTW, we are taught that everyone gets oxygen. If you don't put O2 on a patient, you fail. Its applied immediatly after c/c and the only exception is non-emerg. transports ( just what were taught, I'm not trying to...

As I said, overanalyzing definatly comes into play. For me it's the confusion of caps, because our tubes look like frickin octopuses (or whatever the plural of octopus is) and figuring out which caps come off and which stay on and which ones you take off then put back.... I'm sorry if this seems...

Lol. No, I know the drip chamber part. It's AFTER that that things get hairy. Maybe I'm just overanalyzing. I just want to know that I got this right, because it's not covered on our states and were just pushed onto the field afterwards. I'm technically only a first responder right now and I've...

In my book and on the dvd-rom it 'shows' how to properly set up an admin. set. I was even shown by an EMT (I'm 4 days away from my state test) how to set one up, but for some reason any step after squeezing the drip chamber till its half full just doesn't stick to me at all. Any pointers?

It was a module in our class. What part of PA are you from?

I would so travel to japan. always loved it. japan or scotland.

Back being a barista. I was a bartender who mixed up coffe cocktails instead of alcoholic. no fun in that.

oh my........what if he covors the wrong hole?

Okay, since my actual job interviews arent for a while yet, I decided to try some of the redmedies and corrective measures found on the net. Since I am sure that there are probably others on this site looking for similar information, I'm going to keep you posted on the things that work, and...

She's just an airhead and says it alot. About everything. She even tried to copyright it. She wanted money for everytime someone used 'her words'. Its sad. And just tragic.