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I was responsible for purchasing them at my old department, including testing and evaluation, a budget proposal, and roll-out training. I loved them and was quite proficient with them. If you ask people why there is such a long-standing hatred for them, those are the top two reasons. In my...

The x-series is an amazing monitor, but they clearly didn't involve anyone with current/relevant clinical experience when they planned out transmitting EKGs and changing paper. Those two inconveniences overshadowed every advance that machine brought to the market.

There’s always incentives

6 months ago my local stryker rep tried to convince me we needed to immediately buy new lifepak 15s because ours were no longer serviceable. I told him we'd hold off until the new one comes out or one of ours breaks. Glad I waited.

I’ve been audited for my fire instructor, which was kind a pain in the butt because that cycle I did a lot of random teaching help for friends at their program, so then I had to track down all those class rosters. As a coordinator, I had about a dozen guys get audited. Our RMS was solid so all...

I don’t know that there will ever be enough data to truly evaluate the efficacy of DSD.. Persistent ventricular rhythms are so few and far between..

it depends entirely on the protocol, but you can do them 1 right after the other or at the same time.

Listen man, I'm sorry about your loss, I really am. You have your answer. Ejection generally requires significant energy and creates severe injuries that are generally not compatible with life. Trying to delve into how many different times we've seen it really accomplishes nothing.

It's the pace of the conversation that's off-putting.. 'how do people do who are ejected' 'bad' 'well how many have you seen' 'a few' 'thats not very many, anyone else?' - it's also the issue of forcing us to share accounts of days that weren't super fun for us.. Think about this from a...

Source? Peer reviewed academic resources only please.

I had mine custom made by a local firefighter, brown instead of black, I absolutely love it.

As they should. We have a real job with responsibilities and real outcomes.

Tidbit from my world. I work for a fire department with ALS transport and a good protocol. We have two different third service EMS agencies that we regularly run mutual aid with, and I have been less than impressed with both. I listened to one of their medics diagnose a blatantly paced rhythm...

Three year contracts are common place in the hospital. I signed a paper that I’d have my BSN within 3 years or be fired..

And these programs demonstrate where BSN > ADN, at least when comparing new grads. The sad thing is, the nursing educator cult insists that BSN is better at all costs so we’re left with these RN to BSN programs that are complete trash even when taking them at respected universities.

I’d be in favor of more variety in nursing clinical. I know the 4 year programs do different rotations, but my 2 year program had nursing home rotation in the beginning, then med surg 1, psych, ob, L&D, then med surg 2, which was really just med surg 1 but this time you get TWO patients.. it...

I was bored this morning and decided to read back through this thread, which was a small snapshot journal of that 2 year chapter of my life. I'm currently coming up on 2 years part time in the ED, I also switched fire departments into a new role which changed my outlook there. I'm currently...

I’m not trying to be rude, but what you said is literally the meat of the Good Samaritan law..

I used to think it'd be super cool to have a take-home car. Now I see the ugly side of that where I'm driving a billboard and would feel compelled to stop for every little thing. If I end up in an admin position with a take-home, I'm going to try to get one that is unmarked with hidden lights.

If we're being perfectly honest? Look to where you'd put the heel of your hand for chest compressions, slightly up from that and on either side of the sternum is v1/v2, v4 goes 1-2" below the left nipple, v6 goes mid-axillary in line with v4, v3 goes in between v2/v4, v5 goes between v4/v6.