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    Lidocaine for ICP & RSI

    Based on what I have read, there is no improvement in outcomes with or without lidocaine. Follow your protocol or suffer the wrath.
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    Artificial Ventilations

    can you pass along some of the pearls you earned during your 3 months?
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    Artificial Ventilations

    I work with a respiratory therapist who doesn't know how to bag properly. basics are not the only people double fisting a BVM and squeezing until the guy's toes inflate.
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    Artificial Ventilations

    you don't connect your ventilator to oxygen?
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    Artificial Ventilations

    compression only CPR is a gimmick to recruit UNTRAINED bystanders. Rescue breathing has NOT been dropped from HCP BLS algorithms. that make sense?
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    100% Directionless Thread

    lol i told you i wasnt making it personal, Sucka!
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    100% Directionless Thread

    This is why friends shouldn't talk about money. someone always ends up looking like a jerk. i'm not trying to make it personal, but why don't we change the subject!
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    100% Directionless Thread

    count your blessings Linuss. No matter how much money you make, it's hard to save. Then again, if you have 35k in student loans, you might not be sitting pretty with your little treasures!
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    Artificial Ventilations

    no question. B V M.
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    "The Call" EMS song is finished..

    Great work
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    lead placement

    OR you could just look at the picture on the cable housing.
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    trauma call, head and facial assault

    follow your protocols. here's some food for thought. Not the article i was looking for but pretty sure the article i was looking for is referenced here. http://www.scahec.net/prepares/summit/ppt/c_spinal.pdf
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    ER vs back of the ambulance

    The real problem with codes is that they are NEVER ideal. Sure you have the limitations or benefit of environment, or extra help. example. Last code i went to. The house supervisor is trying to get a line, she tries 5 times in the left arm. then moves to the right,. There are 8...
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    ER vs back of the ambulance

    that is what you are trained to do. what makes it so special? Pick a hard job and cry that it's hard? lol that's the funny thing!
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    rectile bleeding

    Unless he's hemorrhaging enough to be seen even with his pants on, do you really need to look at it? what are you going to do? your treatment includes putting what where? Just take his word for it, get his history and medications and take him in.
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    100% Directionless Thread

    Sweet my balloon pump turned into a post op cabg /c balloon pump. I'll be flying solo with balloons after tonight!!
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    LPNs

    I already had a degree when I took my associate's. I did science prereqs for 2 semesters and then did the 4 semester uppder division nursing. 3 years total for me. another 9 months online will complete my BSN.
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    LPNs

    In the US LPNs function with a smaller scope of practice and school is generally 2 semesters. Bare minimum for RN is 4 semesters. This is for the nursing specific curriculum, there is usually a year of prereqs Which must be completed.
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    EMT-I or Virgina EMT-E Boot Camp

    As longas I do the legwork I've been able to set myself up just fine with quality experiences. In fact when I felt he experience was lackluster, here was an immediate change in venue.
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    EMT-I or Virgina EMT-E Boot Camp

    ... HENCE .... online school. You work at your own pace. I work 48 hours a week at night. How do you think I'm doing it? Obviously your choice is not mine to make but your arguments keep playing exactly into my responses. :)
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