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  1. berkeman

    AED deployment in metal grandstands at track meet

    I worked a 2-day USATF track meet in NorCal this last weekend, and I had a moderate asthma Pt in the grandstands that had her own inhaler and the situation worked out fine. But as usual afterwards I started running alternate scenarios, and for the first time I thought about how to handle a...
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    Verbal DNR from a conscious patient?

    I was working a standby shift at a "Senior Games" track meet last weekend, and had a strange request from a patient (65y/o male). He was exhausted after running in the 400m race, and was tripoding near the scorer's table. One of the scorers called me over because of something the athlete had...
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    Fatal MOI for California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Camilleri?

    I haven't see any reports of what killed Officer Camilleri in the passenger seat of their Explorer and left his partner in the driver's seat with minor injuries. Has anybody seen any reports of what made his injuries fatal? Getting rear-ended by a car doing freeway speed is serious, but I'm...
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    Different color coding of responding vehicles in PulsePoint...

    Does anybody know why responding apparatus sometimes have different color codings in the PulsePoint app? I understand why they might color-code a Rescue vehicle differently from an Engine or Truck. But sometimes Engines or Trucks may come in different colors, even if they are still on active...
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    New NREMT Re-Cert by Exam option

    (searched on NREMT in title posts, and just got a non-helpful pop-up infomercial with similar title posts here, so I don't think this has been posted before...) Just got the mailing from NREMT: "There are Two Options for getting Recertified: New Computer Based Exam or Traditional Continuing...
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    Ruling out appendicitis?

    Worked on a young patient the other day who was complaining of severe abdominal pain with acute onset. Pain initially was in lower back and abdomen, moving over several minutes to mainly the LLQ. LRQ was relatively pain free for most of this, including rebound palpation. All vital signs were...
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