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Ok thank you. :)

I will keep that in mind for future cases. But the article refers to COPS patients which already well known that have C02 retention

It's not giving unnecessary oxygen it's just something around there face that covers more they needed 6lpm I could give it thru NC but it's harder for her to keep her mask on and she is a germ-phobe and covering her mouth reassured her.

I usually do but when they were breathing fast an I just get a anxious vibe around them I tend to use a NRB it just calms some people down.

Don't do it at all. Always know there is help and anyone know Matter how hard can get into a better position. I have lost friends to suicide and want everyone to know help can be found.

Around 90/40 but she informed me about a history of high blood pressure

Yeah if a medic doesn't have to keep a ALS treatment running then we take turns so I drove the previous call.

So had a patient say in there 60s with CHF. She complained of weakness and her husband mentioned in just a few weeks her legs got so much more swollen. So first we checked the ABCs she was protecting her airway, her breathing was very congested had coughing and heard some crackling, circulation...

First one as a EMT basic or advance? First one as a EMT basic I had a car vs tree trauma which was critical and I just drove as fast as I could. First one as a advance I messed up the ECG leads and got a unnecessary intercept so pretty bad start to both.

How do you get over a near loss? We almost lost a kid and the intensity of the environment has left me wondering how do we do this job? How do we get over this? We were dispatched to a 4month old difficulty Breathing and hpi includes recent diagnosis of RSV about 2days ago. Patient was...

There cc was it looked painful 😂

Patient discharged on oxycodone for post op Pain and we were called to take patient to hospital for AMS.

Yes to diaphoretic no to the others. He is overweight. Just woke up about 2 hours ago in this scenario and good differential

On this scenerio. Lungs sound clear, white male with no other history.

NSTEMI is a non ST elevated myocardial infarction which is a heart attack that doesn't have ST elevation. Meaning ether not enough blood or oxygen going to the heart muscle. Can be caused by a clot or really anything blocking blood or oxygen. Not even necessarily blocked. I don't think it can be...

Yeah.

Ok late to this scenerio but also new to the forum so don't hold it against me. ABCs? SAMPLE? Place a IV start a litter of fluids for soft BP and fever= possible dehydration. Spo2 was good but there was some accessory breathing so run a nebulizer. Heart rate elevation is common with infections...

Yeah our chest pain protocol still say nitro but neither me, my EMT basic partner, or the paramedic thought this would need nitro. So we didn't give nitro.

Also we do have the suspension that this is muscle/Skeleton related because there was ribs that were tinder especially in the conjunction connecting them to the sternum, also a pain that comes and goes, and is described as sharp, but still could be other things I assume.

Sorry about the coffee stain lol