Recent content by Vegeta182

It was patent the drip was just sadly to low.

I agree remi but the dose I was sent with was severely under the effective for for sedation. In the future I will be more aware of the pediatric dosages for drugs that are uncommon in my transfers. We don't have protocols for propofol or any sedatives or paralytics for that matter other than...

He was actually very combative. I was going by the dosage the pediatric trauma physician ultimately put him on at the facility I diverted to. I'm guessing the anesthetic dosage was to insure ICP wasn't being spiked?

I did raise concerns and looking back he should have been around 200 mcg/kg/min on the drip which would have been 192 mg/hr compared to the 8mg/hr the doctor had him on. I appreciate your response canman. I certainly did have a wake up call on some things I need to brush up on. You are also...

I agree with you completely. Going by what you are saying about their replies being mild compared to some. I guess I was looking for a sense of brotherhood and someone offering to talk about it. It seems though that this isn't the place if I'm to expect much worse criticism. It seems like there...

Thank you guys for reviewing my call from your computer desk or phone and using the power of hindsight to tell me all that I had done wrong. Everything stated above was already realized by me during and soon after the call. Maybe you guys are above getting caught up in a frantic er pushing a...

Thanks. I know a guy that is doing onshore oil rig work. Maybe I'll try starting there.

20 year olds on Medicare that use us as a taxi. Had one call got there. Cheif complaint was that she needed a ride to the bank. Running calls at the state prison where I pay them to pay me to take them to the er

[Qjust just UOTE="pcbguy, post: 564831, member: 1124"]Not a bad idea but since there are so many paramedics out there that already have the training you'd be a better candidate if you had it going in. You should look into a NEBOSH class if you want to work an rig overseas. You'll also need...

Hoping for a remote onshore oil rig to start then hopefully having that company pay for the offshore safety training.

So as a NREMTP with an associate degree in emergency medicine what do I need to throw money at to get the right stamps on paper to get hired by an international company? Do I need to move to the UK and start over or is there training available here in the states that would make me desirable?

I just see so many comments in this sub forum about international companies only hiring critical care and associates degree paramedics. I also hear alot of people throwing off on US medics saying they aren't trained as highly as UK or AUS or Canadian medics.

I just had the wrist transfer in my 9 years of ems. The cause? Improper dosage of propofol. I did two things wrong. The first was not knowing the dosage range for the propofol drip. The second trusting an ed doctor's prescribed dose. I had a 2 year old traumatic brain injury. Depressed skull...

Hey guys I was hoping to hear back from some of the seasoned paramedics on here. When it comes to hiring a paramedic from the United States. How do companies view Critical Care versus Associates Degree Paramedics? I have a feeling from reading these threads that Paramedics without a degree are...

I work in a very rural area with the closest cardiac cath lab 2 and a half hours away. So you can say I have a lot of time in the back with STEMI transfers. Mostly here they are on heparin drip with nitropaste very rarely will I have a nitro drip.