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Thanks guys. I was giving report enroute to the receiving facility and after providing the full report including the AxO3 he asked why the patient was a GCS of 14. Just wanted some feedback. Thank you.

Seeking opinion on how to chart a particular situation. The patient is alert to person, place, event, but not time. Charting as alert but not answering all questions appropriately. Would this result in a GCS of 14 due to a loss of a point in the verbal category because the patient is not fully...

Article outlining the recent joint statement against a degree requirement for paramedics. http://www.snotsmedic.com/2019/01/07/to-degree-or-not-to-degree-that-is-the-question/

I'm conducting a survey about current education standards for paramedics in the United States. The results will be used in the development of an article pertaining to paramedic education. The survey takes around one minute: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NS7N8T2

NREMT-P: I was kicked out at 80 questions. Took around 55 minutes and PASSED.

Two things that question my faith in the validity of the study: 1. The data used in 10 years old. 2. The analyzed population who received an IO is a fraction of the IV population analyzed. 3. The study said "Patients with intraosseous access had a higher proportion of nonshockable initial...

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Take an EKG college course. Read an EKG book, there are tons out there. Looking at strip after strip. Repitation helps. Dr. Smiths EKG blog. Reddit EKG is good for case studies. Figure1 App has tons of EKGs and case studies.

Also according to the University of Arizona there is slim to no chance of injuring a patient when performing chest compressions on a beating heart. The real goal is to get that foreign body up and out of the airway or down and into the lung to get at least half of the lungs to ventilate.