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God I love this forum. So much stuff from discussions I never would have thought of and never got told in basic class. What would they end up doing in the ER, how do you sterilize a bone?

Ambulance got called for an assault, arrived on scene to find one of our usual drunks lying on the ground with a small pool of blood by his head. He has a laceration right above his eyebrow with a fair amount of swelling. It is not actively bleeding much anymore. A bystander mentioned he saw him...

I just signed up for a medic class. There wasn't an "interview" but I had to go meet with the instructor and then they do rank the applications so if there aren't enough slots people at the bottom will get booted, it is not first come first serve. If it's like what mine was, just be ready to...

Does anyone know how long it takes for baby aspirin to start working? We carry it but I have literally never seen anyone give it because every station around is within a 10 minute drive of a cardiac center so people say there is no point.

Sorry I assumed most places worked the same way. In my county it's a trauma decision tree where if on your immediate assessment the vitals are bad (GCS<13, sbp<90) it's an alpha trauma. If that's fine, you check for major obvious injuries such as broken long bones, chest wall deformity...

In my system that would technically be a delta trauma and you would get chewed out if you didn't take her to a trauma center. I'm new so I would probably take precautions just in case. Why shouldn't you though?

As someone who has suffered anaphylaxis before... if I found that someone had withheld an epipen from me, and I actually survived the incident, I would personally hunt you down so I could watch the life drain from your eyes while I crushed your throat between my hands.