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Okie, the first one is pretty cut and dry and I'm assuming the answer is because in California every ambulance has a medic and an EMT so the medic could administer them, but I'm kind of wondering why EMTs apparently can only administer oxygen and oral glucose in Cali? My medic student friend said it depends on the county (but it's the same there so maybe it's in most of Cali) and it's kind of annoying because I understand I still have to know this stuff for national registry even though I can't use it. But, um, yeah I'm guessing it's because each ambulance has a medic so if the patient needs albuterol, epinephrine, whatever then they can just start a line.
The other one is concerning textbook differences and what the instructors say in class. The new Brady edition has all these different pulse, resp rates etc. for diff age groups such as 12-14, 6-9, etc. etc. but the instructors just teach the resp/pulse rates for adults, adolescents, and infants....so for national registry, do I need to know all that stuff in the Brady text or do they go by adult, adol & infant and that's it?
Guess that's about the only questions I can think of. Finishing up the second week of class and already learned the anatomy, initial assessment, medical & trauma assessments, ongoing, vital signs & SAMPLE (that acryonym is so easy to remember, I love it), OPQRST, DCAP-BTLS, etc. etc. Uh, oh yeah and got 90% on my first quiz so guess I'm doing alright so far. The question I missed was kind of odd though...don't remember it exactly but I think it was "If a patient is found dead at the scene, and has a terminal disease, how many days must it have been since he has seen his doctor before he is considered a coroner's case?" Not quite sure how that relates to EMS but meh. So far I'm having fun though!
I think EMS instructors take the cake for making lecture/lab entertaining...especially when one having an assessment demonstrated on him gives the instructor doing the assessment a bunch of crap and the one doing the assessment mutters how he should have demonstrated an unresponsive patient. oh yeah and one of the other instructors offering said person this really f***ing bright, large mag lite to check the pupils was classic.
The other one is concerning textbook differences and what the instructors say in class. The new Brady edition has all these different pulse, resp rates etc. for diff age groups such as 12-14, 6-9, etc. etc. but the instructors just teach the resp/pulse rates for adults, adolescents, and infants....so for national registry, do I need to know all that stuff in the Brady text or do they go by adult, adol & infant and that's it?
Guess that's about the only questions I can think of. Finishing up the second week of class and already learned the anatomy, initial assessment, medical & trauma assessments, ongoing, vital signs & SAMPLE (that acryonym is so easy to remember, I love it), OPQRST, DCAP-BTLS, etc. etc. Uh, oh yeah and got 90% on my first quiz so guess I'm doing alright so far. The question I missed was kind of odd though...don't remember it exactly but I think it was "If a patient is found dead at the scene, and has a terminal disease, how many days must it have been since he has seen his doctor before he is considered a coroner's case?" Not quite sure how that relates to EMS but meh. So far I'm having fun though!
I think EMS instructors take the cake for making lecture/lab entertaining...especially when one having an assessment demonstrated on him gives the instructor doing the assessment a bunch of crap and the one doing the assessment mutters how he should have demonstrated an unresponsive patient. oh yeah and one of the other instructors offering said person this really f***ing bright, large mag lite to check the pupils was classic.