54 yo M complained of sudden epigastric pain and dropped, cardiac arrest. This 12 is from the first ROSC. His heart was all over the place IVR, Afib, total heart block, sinus. Cathed sucessfully and being taken off pressors in the ICU now. Really hoping for good outcome
Emerson Paramedics. They're technically part of a private EMS company but they have an agreement to staff medics/equip/training on the non transporting intercept truck. They're the primary ALS for the 10 or so surrounding towns
Just saying man is that people dont want to hear someones opinions who hasnt worked in a area with a certain company. Its like a fart with the windows locked, a bunch of hot air. I could say x, y, and z ambulance company are terrible because of yadda yadda yadda but it doesnt hold any...
No i really dont though. Saying people shouldnt work at places in high call volume/short transport areas because it turns them into just a driver and not a clinician is ridiculous.
So putting 10 stickers on a patient and potentially starting an IV make you a clinician? The best tool any clinician can have is a killer physical assessment, whether basic, medic, RN, PA, whatever role.
The assessment is the bread and butter and everything else after that is to help narrow...
Had a patient get stabbed across the stomach a couple nights ago, it was like a real life abdominal organs anatomy lab. Pretty sweet to see you know for me, not so much for the patient
Recently got called for the shortness of breath in the middle of the night. On arrival we found a middle aged women sitting outside on a bench of her apartment building, tripoding. She states she was awoken by the difficulty breathing, has a hx of asthma, and has used her inhaler with no...
Disp to the unresponsive in a car, possible overdose.
Pt was unresponsive, no overdose, with a blood glucose of 14. Lowest number I've seen. Im assuming 10 and under would read "Lo" on the glucometer?
Just a word of advice, they day you downplay pt's as poor historians because of an presumed assumption that they don't understand, is the day you get burned as a provider. With anything, just because there are only a few cases of something rare, doesn't mean they can't happen again or to your...