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    patient's Apple Watch -- useful on a call !

    just attended a mandatory professional rescuer refresher. I and the instructor were the only one wearing apple watches. asked him why he thought, he said : had a call recently where a bike rider took a header and smacked his he'd on the concrete...
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    Radio license to use EMS comms?

    thanks . i need to get a list of all the frequencies the sar group uses and check w fcc. i m in the process of transferring out for many more reasons i won t go into here...
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    Radio license to use EMS comms?

    so a local volunteer search and rescue group encourages individuals to each buy their own baofengs . does the sar admin need to hold a license for our group to send/ receive in the 700 public safety band ? or otherwise , all of us radio users who get caught can be fined ? i just got my...
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    Question to the experienced

    just curious: would you 'turn this pt on his side ' to keep his airway clear with those sx: " deformed nose, bleeding and compromising his airway, crepitus in the chest, decreased lung sounds on R, and deformation to the R femur..."
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    Medication Error Learning

    one of the sad aspects of this was that the nurse was being observed by an 'orientee.' had the nurse viewed her situation of no pharm rx and no access in pyxsis as a teaching opportunity, the scenario could have gone like this: i have an oral order for versed, but the...
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    New Paramedic moving to Pittsburgh Area

    pittsburgh is in the middle of a legal fight about whether public service union employees need to be 'residents of 'the city of pgh.' to get a pgh. union job. so til some judges on high decide this, look carefully at where you'd want to live. the city of...
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    So I stopped at an accident off-duty...

    i was just an off duty passerby when i saw the car ahead of me hit a 6 year old girl, then leave the scene. i stopped, called 911 , kept the child from moving while we waited for ALS. facial fx, suspected c-spine, broken leg. state police were very glad i...
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    "Is there a doctor on the plane?"

    It is troubling that the med student did not ID himself as a med student not an MD to airline personnel before assuming authority over the pt. A med student missing an acute asthma dx and/or not using appropriate airline kit meds to rx and/or not calling for...
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    Status on backboarding in your area?

    teh Wilderness medicien guys a re spearheading the use of inflatable air mattresses that conform better to the pts. whether the AP powers who be will change too reamins ot be seen, the logrol is still in the protocols and on the practicals. :unsure:
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    Lyme disease carditis..

    CDC has some recent info on the unusual complication of carditis secondary to lyme disease. http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/healthcare/index.html 3 middle-aged pts had had fatal heart attacks. all tested positive for undiagnosed lyme disease with carditis. some sx included...
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    Please i need help in graduation research :(

    why not write about CPR :what it is . why more citizens don't know it. why it is good to know. how many lives could be saved, etc.
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    Service Dogs

    some people are falsely claiming their dogs are 'service dogs' just to get them into restaurants and hotels. in CA this will get you a $1000 fine. under the ADA, a service dog is one trained to assist its master /mistress with a recognized medical condition...
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    NOLS vs. RMI vs. SOLO

    cost of WMS/ SOLO? the cost of those courses was a concern to me. i found a local college EMT class for $125 , then found the WEMT for another $200. both were local . I'd love to have gone with the gold standards of SOLO or WMS (but there would go 2...
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    Ski Patrol/Winter SAR

    31 degrees on the mountain yesterday am... now thinking it was a mistake to let the OEC credential expire in '92 after 15 years of patrolling (and passing the senior exams..) . now that I'm an EMT looking to get back into patrolling, I found that I can...
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    What books did you use?

    we used AAOS in the emt b course. I was unhappy with that book, so i went to used bookstores and online and bought : 1) a used Limmer , a great book which i found IMHO to have much better explanations of certain practical skills than AAOS; 2) a used...
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    traction splints

    midshat femur: think thigh cantalopes... boarders working ski patrol at a major resort, we see 2 dozen femur fx per season. most victims are young wild skiers or riders. a hare splint gives amazing and immediate relief. in 15 years we've never seen an open...
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    new WMS research : c spine protocols

    The Wilderness Medicine Society has just published some very interesting consensus research on preventing C spine injuries in prehospital care. what interested me most was the discussion on logrolling vs. a trap slide, and the importance of padding the occiput...
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    Drug calculation

    WOW, I am learning so much just reading this forum. as an EMT B in my state we don't do these sorts of calculations.. thanks.
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    how soon is exam scheduled?

    thanks, that helps a lot. the canned replies to my same question via email from 'Tania' at NREMT HQ were completely useless.
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    Hepatitis A/B immunization????

    since you're near pgh., call the allegheny county department of health who has all this info at their finger tips and gives the shots for free...:)
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