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I've personally been tasered (for funsies) - it is completely incapacitating for the 7 seconds the electricity is going, you turn into a limp noodle assuming all the conditions above are met... but pretty much as soon as that 7 seconds is over, you have complete control again. It's quite painful...

I won't address the tasering a person cuffed to the cot. Taser requires three conditions to be fully effective: 1. Penetration of clothes & skin to reach more conductive tissue, as both skin & clothes are insulators at the dose of electricity that is used 2. Both probes to have a conductive...

Yeah, I think I siked myself out. We went into the call just based on the call notes with a plan to likely RSI. When I saw the patient & his airway though, it made me pretty anxious. I'm intubating pretty darn frequently compared to many, just was not confident in my ability to get that tube...

Very rarely do I intentionally auscultate heart tones on a call with this much chaos. It was so loud that I could hear it on pulmonary auscultation, which is what prompted me to listen to the heart too. 1. 150s systolic, don't have it exactly 2. ~120 3. Initially didn't count, estimated 24...

Got dispatched to a residential address for 16yo with burns. On arrival, we find obese 16yo male patient in obvious distress - in the tripod position with a tachypnec respiratory rate. Not coughing, mildly tachycardic, oxygen saturation 100% - but complaint of 6-7 out of 10 chest pain, shortness...