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  1. chaz90

    Access to ePCR's

    We use Imagetrend, and the desktop/tablet based program we use to type our charts is on a program called FieldBridge. After we complete the chart, we upload it to a web based cloud program called StateBridge. If we want to review any chart, it can be pulled off StateBridge, but we need Internet...
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    Would You Volunteer in Another Country?

    I likely would have offered, as usual only to see if the patient needed CPR or hemorrhage control. When I likely found the patient with a completely unrelated issue, I would have simply offered that they carry on contacting the appropriate service and move on.
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    Is it fine to eat in the back of the ambulance

    Yeah, I eat in the back all the time. I'm never in the front of an ambulance anymore, and sometimes I'm in the back for an hour on the way back from the hospital. I just wish there could be cup holders in the back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    BVM mishap. Did I do something wrong?

    I actually very rarely use an OPA on my apneic opioid ODs. Most seem to have some level of gag reflex present, or will very soon after I begin treatment. Unless I'm unable to ventilate effectively with a BVM, they don't respond to Narcan, or their tongue is actively becoming an issue, I place an...
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Random tourist at the beach to me: "Not to tell you how to do your job, but most vehicles are stolen when they have their keys in the ignition and are left running." "Well ma'am, we have to keep them running to keep the equipment charged and the medications cool. It is locked up even with it...
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    Wetfag calculations

    Okay. Moved to EMS Talk. I have never heard of this mnemonic before, but a quick Google search gave me this. http://paediatricem.blogspot.com/2013/08/paediatric-resuscitation.html?m=1 It seems to indicate that based on this formula, you can estimate age for children less than 1 year old by...
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    Wetfag calculations

    Did you mean to post this here? This is the area for questions and suggestions regarding the usage of the forum itself. Also, I have no idea what you're asking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    the 100% directionless thread

    I took a semester of Logic and Critical Thinking as a philosophy elective in college. It's served me well.
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    the 100% directionless thread

    See, you clearly need a better stocked home bar. That makes the alcohol feel free, and free=better.
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    sugammadex

    Cool. Any experience using it yet? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Your in a Humvee and its 108°....

    Yeah...We're going to go ahead and close this one for now OP. If you'd like to make this an EMS scenario, feel free to PM a community leader and we can discuss re-opening it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Years down the road, how do you continue to love this profession?

    Every once in a great while, the first response to a thread provides a definitive response. This appears to be one of those times. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Our paramedic student walked in and began complaining to my partner within 30 seconds about his struggles with a neighboring system's FTOs since they "are *******s and don't like his personality." Agh. It's going to be a long shift.
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Jesus. RIP to the latest victims of unspeakable violence in Baton Rouge. This is untenable. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/us/baton-route-police-shooting/index.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    the 100% directionless thread

    I just overheard this gem of an 0130 dispatch: BLS Ambulance, respond to a sick person. 50 YOF relates she was struck by lightning three days ago, and is now suffering from a stomach ache. She will be waiting for the ambulance in her vehicle outside the entrance to her development. Facepalm...
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    Last call of the day is....

    An extremely dehydrated heat exhaustion patient asked me the following at various times: Should get tested for HIV and Hep C if he was worried he'd been exposed; Where he could get free water since he didn't have any since last night; Why his IV start hurt more than tattoos; and if we were...
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Ah, what a day. Ran a ton of calls, but my FTO partner and his student took every one except the STEMI that came out when they were gone. A day of chauffeuring and a single high priority transport is just fine by me! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Fun fact about Cardizem: Hearing people pronounce it as "Cardi-A-zem" like some sort of weird portmanteau of the generic and brand name is one of my pet peeves. Not as bad as "O2 stats," but I still grit my teeth every time. The dental damage increases as they repeat the word multiple times in a...
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    the 100% directionless thread

    I've actually never carried metoprolol, but I guess I have used amiodarone for a-fib a couple times. Diltiazem just seems to me to be much more effective at predictable responses with fewer side effects. Plus, we carry an effective antidote in case of iatrogenic OD. Win win!
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    Whats your most "rewarding" experience in EMS?

    I've learned I have to be quick. You have fast fingers. Maybe you got some sort of satisfaction just from typing it out? Some people swear that's a form of release in itself. I find it's not nearly as satisfying as actually posting...
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