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Yea, sepsis is getting major play recently with hospitals trying to get a handle on it and become better at recognizing and managing it. Some are treating it in a similar way they treat acute MI and acute stroke by forming Sepsis teams and sepsis alerts with certain triggers, usually a pt...

Feel better soon! Hopefully it's taken care of soon and smoothly.

I personally think this is a key point and something that helped me when I was first learning. With new interns learning to intubate I commonly see a rush to insert the scope and just hunt around for the vocal cords. I remember being absolute horrible with my first several intubations and...

Music, videos, podcasts, PDF books, documents/presentations, apps.... it fills up quickly. My iphone 5 is 32gb, it's pretty full but I think this will be enough for a while. Actually make good use of iTunes Match service and keeping basically all my music "on the cloud" which saves a lot...

I think Kelly hit on some good points there. Don't do medic expecting that alone to booster your app. Certainly do it if you want to be/work as a medic but it alone, I don't think, will be looked at much different than EMT on the surface. That said, if you were a medic and held a...

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Just to go off this, while DNR, like others have mentioned, refers to do not resuscitate i.e. no intubation and no chest compressions, keep in mind you may run into "comfort measures only" (CMO) terminology which basically is a step further where the only goal is controlling pain/suffering...

Question: Was the mother left at home?

I think it in the past week or so I got a "powder alert" email from Ski Alta near Salt Lake City..... Can't be that bad... ;)

I'm not a surgeon or in the field so I can't speak to protocols around here. But generally speaking I don't see this being in the EMS realm. In those rare instances it's needed I think it's going to be a matter of getting a surgeon to the scene, via whatever protocol needs to be activated...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=11692118

Itching to do some more IDPA shooting, just haven't been able to with my schedule. Actually, I really want to do a 3 gun match as I haven't been able to use my AR in that sort of environment yet.

How much did he drop and how quickly?? If he didn't have a stroke before he may have one now. ;)

Yea, when you fall down don't sit on your rear for 20min in the middle of the slope forcing the skiers to narrowly avoid hitting you. ;)

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Major in whatever interests you and whatever you can maintain good grades in. Ultimately no specific major is really going to be useful in med school.

Working while sick is miserable. Been fighting some URI for a couple weeks now and last time on call I sounded like I had croup.

Another decent smartphone resource is the "Medscape" app. Similar to epocrates in that it has a drug database, but also has disease info that's not part of the free epocrates version.

Without actually seeing them it'd be hard to speculate. Honestly I don't really know of anything that would causes isolated jaundice in the feet. I would think more along lines if non-pathological causes such as poor hygiene or some sort if stain or dye from socks/footware...

Very nice. My schedule lately just hasn't allowed me to get out shooting in a little while. Need to take the toys out and get rid of some stress. :) Anyone doing IDPA or USPSA here? I have a decent outdoor range that holds weekly events, just haven't been able to make an event in the...