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Thanks! That just changed my life....as far as taking BP goes anyway. You're a wealth of helpful info :)

Shiver me timbers I am ruined!!!! My own personal holiday lost at sea this day! Aye, we shall have to wait many a high tide ere we see this day again! Argh!

I do wish I had more of a background for this, then everything would come together a lot easier I think. Once it's over and I have my license, I'm planning on kicking the college courses into gear so I can understand what I've just learned lol. SkyAce, if you have any friends or family with...

I've searched high & low for it.......can you (or he) post a link to it? I'd like to have something to follow for when I'm at home and able to check BP on the family/friends. Thanks!

Welcome to the chaotic life of studying to become an EMT! :) I was expecting to study a lot as well, but I'm studying even more than I thought I would. The thing is, I'm loving it! I'd study all day every day if given the chance. Keep up the study habits and we'll make it to the other side B)

I did say I bought them because they remind me of the end goal as well. The fit was important as was the durability....had they felt like they were lined with shards of glass I would not have been impressed. Being in the class and having no intention of failing, I figure they were a good...

Never mind.....thanks emt-student for setting me straight! No airway = no patient. I'll remember that! I feel like such a noob :blush:

In my book, the steps for the initial assessment are general impression, mental assessment (hold C spine if needed), ABCs, and transpoprt priority. Those are easy enough to remember. But, I go to the website and take the end of chapter tests and there's a true/false question regarding an...

Awesome! Congrats on on your success!

I'll not forget. I can still hear my co-worker's voice telling me they heard on the radio that a plane had hit the WTC, so we ran out to the TV in the office to see what happened.......and were glued to it most of the day. It was a tragic day and one that should stick in our memories. We saw the...

We just started pulse checks at the end of class last night. We didn't check them all in class, but we were walked through the how's and where's of the radial, ulnar, brachial, femoral, carotid, dorsalis pedis, and tibialis posterior pulses. He also gave us 1 "hard" one to find: the popliteal...

I would hope not! It's a Porsche.....though I'd hold out for a Bentley or Lamborghini model :P It should come with some really cool tinted safety glasses and latex gloves tinted to look like leather driving gloves.