yes it helped a lot.
She said fast A-fib is anything above 60 because A-fib is a ventricular rhythm. Right there I knew something was fishy.
No, I never heard of A-fib with RVR, I even went back through my arrhythmia book and it wasn't in there. kinda made me mad.
This medic also shocked...
I work midnights in Highland Park, MI. It is a small city right smack dab in the middle of Detroit, and yes it is just one more god forsaken place in Detroit and thats why I love it.
Currently going though the hiring process for DFD EMS, hoping to get that.
This might make me sound like an idiot but hear goes,
Working with a Medic and had a CP call. Patient had heart rate of about 80 and with regular R-R and to me what looked like a little artifact between QRS (working with an old Lifepack 10 that takes a while to warm up and hasent had time to...
So I’m a new Medic and I was talking to a Medic of probably 2-3 years about the code she had the day before.
Bla bla bla... pt in PEA... bla bla bla... shocked 3 time.
:unsure: Wait a minute now, shocking PEA? Is this a common practice or just a foolish Medic?
Thanks
Tony
Anyone test with Detroit lately? I took the test about a month ago, haven’t heard anything yet. Then again there were only 7 of us that took it that day.
Anyone know numbers or dates for hiring?
Thanks