congratulations! i'm just finishing up clinicals and start internship on september 5th. talk about crapping bowling balls! i'm antsy as all hell.
life ends. actually, it already ended. i'm doing case studies and looking at emtlife.com on a saturday night for cryn' out loud! intern life sucks...
sounds complicated. i guess the equipment we have here in hawaii is a little old school, cuz there's a couple of ways to "milk the needle" to get a blood sample with the equipment we have.
and i've seen a lot of people slap the veins, and i've tried it and it hasn't really worked, so i...
yes, you have to have your A&P done before even applying. most medic programs through a college are like that i believe. and yes, i actually applied to the program while i was taking A&P. and my acceptance was conditional up until they received my letter grade.
and i'm not sure what you mean...
i actually got into the malcolm x college program before i decided to move to hawaii. i highly recommend malcolm x. i'm aslo partial because i did my emt-b there. but they are very reputable and got some really cool learning tools.
chicago fire goes there for their CME classes...
that always makes me feel better when that happens. hahahaha.
i love starting IVs. i have a couple tips:
1.TRACTION TRACTION TRACTION! but be careful with old people, you can really hurt them if you pull too hard.
2. tighten the screwable parts on the stopcock if you decide to use one...
worked up a lady who was altered in HHNK, for whatever reason she started coming out of it and became combative as we got closer to the hospital.
every couple seconds i heard my partner saying "just relax...lay back...almost at the hospital...just lay back...relax...."
after a couple of...
if this is a repost i apologize and please delete. it is kind of old.
but the following vid is a kid high as a kite on benzos after a visit to the dentist.
drugs err bad, mmkay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs
don't trip...those are aftermarket plastics. the dude i bought it off of was all.."these are custom painted..."
i was like, "don't BS a BSer, homie. i've been on eBay. now knock off another 500 for lying to me." hahahaah