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    Its been a while!

    Apologies for not visiting the site for a bit!! Just busy with research and some studies, otherwise all is good. Looking forward to reply to a few threads. I managed to complete the ITLS-A instructors course with the south african chapter. At least we have 11 instructors for the entire...
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    How strong is a human skull? - GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING

    The images below are from the CT-Scan performed on a patient that we treated some time ago, and are fairly visual in nature. The thread is aimed at showing you that patients don’t just die and to ask some question which may touch on the ethical side of things. The patient’s injury was as...
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    About a GCS...

    I was not sure whether to put this tread on the BLS or an ALS discussion side of it, but ended up on the BLS side as I believe that the responses could be generated by both. The first question is straight forward: Would you be able to recite and apply the scoring of the GCS now?? A lot of...
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    Front end, or roof mounted??

    Lets not be paramedics for this one and try to resuscitate old threads on this one!! (This thread refers to branded emergency vehicles only, NOT to POVs) Any of you complaining about difficuilty in hearing, in general, at home, amungst friends?? What i am getting at is the "Siren". I don't...
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    X-Ray eyes?

    We often turn out to multiple trauma casualty scenes. Upon arrival you can easily triage 30 patients or more. As recources are limited and x-ray machine are mounted in our busses (if you can get a bus), one has to decide who gets full spinal immobolization, and who stays sitting during...
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    Treating suspects

    Is there anyone who gets to treat suspects of violent crime on a regurlar base?? It is a difficuilt one, as these patients have murdered and severly injured innocent people...
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