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What book do you use? I used Brady Prehospital Emergency Care, ninth edition. Look on pages 322-325. Pretty much covers it. I made flash cards for each sub-set of patients. Then it is repetition after repetition that gets them in the head. There are some tricks of the trade to help remember...

The first time I felt crepitus, it freaked me out a bit. However, the adrenaline was kicking in pretty heavily, so I just kept on pumping.

70 questions. Passed.

70 questions! Now on to Paramedic School!

Ug. Just finished taking the Ops module test. Final Monday, then NREMT on the following Tuesday. EYE ON THE PRIZE. Oh Pre-hospitol Emergency Care Ninth Edition, how I hateth thee...

EMT-IV? Is that an intermediate? Congrats!

I just finished that module. Don't forget to work on both Moi AND Noi assessments, as your secondary is running in slightly different order. I also ask during general impression if I see any medical jewelry on the pt. Helped a ton on a drowning scenario where the pt. had gone into...

We are not allowed to even touch a loaded stretcher. I am not sure about scoops or backboards, but I will check. We are allowed to do Vital signs, tractions splinting, basic airway management, spinal motion restriction, Albuterol assist, CPR, bandaging/spinting, glucometry, ASA/NTG assist, and...

I just saw a Cesarean Section performed during my L&D rotation, and it was a single nuchal birth, with no problems. I understand what steps to take when presented with this in a Vaginal Birth in the field, but wonder if any of you have had this happen to you. I am also curious as to what...

So I am now one month into my EMT-B class at Austin Community College. Just passed my CPR and lifting practicals, and start clinicals in 10 days. Awesome instructors. Have my preparatory module test coming up soon, then on to trauma. So far, so good...

Are you saying that I should move this post there?

So I am now one month into my EMT-B class at Austin Community College. Just passed my CPR and lifting practicals, and start clinicals in 10 days. Awesome instructors. Have my preparatory module test coming up soon, then on to trauma. So far, so good...

I have two days until EMT school starts, and I am freaking out. I am super excited, and also fearful, and a tad depressed (I always get this right before major life changes). Who needs drugs, when your body provides such interesting chemicals?

So the rumor goes that our local EMS service sometimes uses an unusual procedure on pts they think are faking it to sleep in a warm hospital for the night (we have a large homeless population). The procedure is called "the eye thump". Basically they thump you on the eyeball, because no one who...

Wow, just got gobsmacked by a strange realization. I am sitting in my bed in Texas, listening to a 105 year old song based upon a 400 year old song, tapping away at my Ipad, and trading messages with someone in New Zealand. How very strange.

I got a pair of Haix X-1s for X-mas, and they were extremely comfortable the very first day.

Mmmmmm... Just think of all the delicious venison at the Station House.

Brown, Brown, Brown, Brown, Brown.

They have moved Trauma to FIT Network. It is a couple of channels down for us. No worries!

Grats! Good luck pushing meds.