Is this similar to RSI or is it RSI?

[Akulahawk]

...Big Snip... to reach a point.

Once you've taken the step into doing advanced procedures such as RSI with medications such as paralytics, you can no longer just look at "skills" but now must become knowledgable about medicine and how what each thing you do will have a reaction for the action.

Once you've gotten to this point and you start learning the why of medicine and how things interact, you can no longer, in good conscience, be a "cookbook" medic.

Something else to remember... as an example. Many of the elderly patients we transport are walking pharmacological experiments. Their meds can interact in some very odd ways. Those interactions... also can happen with the meds we carry for our job.

 

[MissMedicCMO]

yea..def.not RSI..like everyone has said...RSI is the use of a paralytic and Im not keen on just using versed to intubate someone who needs to be put down to do it. We carry succs, versed, norc, and etomidate. And Ive never heard of versed being called a skeletal muscle blocker. It is a sedative...like everyone else said but good question to ask not knowing and since its a new protocol for you.

 

[austinmedic2004]

Yes, the key is "assisted". Using just enough appropriate medication to assist with the intubation is the key and then using the appropriate medications to maintain effective sedation with paralysis or just sedation as needed depending on the patient.