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Is this a real scenario? If so, why would pt. 2 be tripoding but only have a RR of 9? Nevertheless, see if pt. 1 gash has life-threatening hemmorage. If so, control the bleeding. If not, move straight to compressions for pt. 4. Wait for help

There was a JAMA article a couple of months back on the legalities of using personal cell phone devices to record and transfer HIPAA-compliant things, as there must be a reasonable level of encryption and no way to deidentify the patient identifiers. The best way is a well-documented NIHSS...

From the picture in the link that Epi posted, there isn't much of anything left of the helicopter. Must've hit the ground fast.

I can't comment on the "occasional incubators" part; most of the studies that I was talking about were in an in-hospital context.

This here is the real caveat IMO. We have tons of ED nurses that I work with currently starting/in/finishing NP school. The majority of these are hybrid/almost completely online. Now, why is this a problem you ask? I am highly skeptical of the ability to impart the necessary knowledge needed to...

No you don't. It will add nothing of value to your PA education; most NPs I speak with say they like the PA "medical" model over the NP "nursing" model. Part of what will make you a good clinician is experience. Get that in the field now, being and learning as much as you can. Try to make your...

Eh. There remains an ongoing debate in the critical care circles, specifically, about the ultimate DL vs. VL first pass success rates. Each study that comes out shows one thing or another, but I think the success rates remain very equal in pooled meta-analyses.

This seems a bit redundant. I don't think this acronym provides any new information about the potential for a difficult airway, and to be quite honest, yet another acronym adds to the meaningless fluff that most acronyms have become.

Even though ETCO2 has those capabilities, no one in-hopsital that I've seen/worked with will use it as such. Hypercapnic? Draw an ABG. Worried about perfusion? Drop an A-line/CVC/Swan.

Well, it is somewhat redundant when you can mirror the vent settings anywhere in the hospital. All intubated patients are going to be placed on a vent, and the advanced metrics there will certainly show if the tube has been misplaced or dislodged.

Yeah, it is something I am trying to get our medical director to get more aggressive with as a ED-wide standard. We have the freaking cannulae and adapters right there in the resus bay next to the BP cuffs and electrodes where all our intubations end up, but aside from a couple of more...

My ER. Only half joking.

It's got to go above the elbow, if I choose to go that route. Can put it below because the two bones (radius and ulna) of the forearm could prevent complete compression of the arteries.

Every single thread with you turns into some contrived, far-fetched legal scenario where someone gets sued. The real world just doesn't operate like that. Can you cite a single case where this reasoning has been used to grant judgement against a paramedic in the United States? We've tried to...

Then you are not providing standard of care. If you actively look for reasons to withhold a medication that would be beneficial to your patient, especially one that is in use in ERs and EMS services nationally, you are not providing standard of care. Be more worried about doing the right thing...

So, uh, what do you when you get on scene first? Sit in the truck waiting for ALS?

Enemy troops will fire on you regardless. You think ISIS gives a crap about the Geneva convention? In fact, military medics often do not wear medical insignia because that makes them a bigger target to get shot at. Also, an overwhelming majority of the time, a combat medic is not going to be...

Ah, now I remember. This guy is the fake lawyer. You are conflating government funded with government run, first of all. The eight amendment does not apply because no punishment is being carried out by the government. Seeking treatment for psychiatric care is not a punishment issued through the...

@bakertaylor28 but you seemed to ignore my response to your post earlier. Where is your source that holding the wall until a bed becomes available is a violation of federal law that the FBI will investigate?

Source for the bolded? And federal law simply says that no hospital can intentionally send patients away to another hospital without appropriate stabilization and treatment within that hospital's means. Having you hold the wall to wait for a bed is not "patient dumping" nor a federal crime.