New/paramedic to be biggest fears :s

[Ana]

Mine is peds...

 

[epipusher]

Cops, due to the fact the scene is always a cluster :censored::censored::censored::censored:.

RIP Officer Moore

 

[wyoskibum]

Dogs. Not all dogs, just the little yap yap ankle biting ones!!! ;-D

 

[Veneficus]

Mine is peds...

Look at the bright side, since they compensate so long before they die, they will likely not crash until the hospital, if they crash at all.

If they do crash before you arrive or with you, they are likely not coming back no matter what you do.

See, nothing to worry about.

 

[flanaganj]

I agree with peds. So I went out and took an NRP class to learn some more. I figure of I feel uncomfortable with a subject, I should search out more schooling.

 

[Ana]

Look at the bright side, since they compensate so long before they die, they will likely not crash until the hospital, if they crash at all.

If they do crash before you arrive or with you, they are likely not coming back no matter what you do.

See, nothing to worry about.

Thks I think now I will wait more 20 years to get my license

 

[Ana]

Dogs. Not all dogs, just the little yap yap ankle biting ones!!! ;-D

ChihuahuaPhobia???

 

[Ana]

I agree with peds. So I went out and took an NRP class to learn some more. I figure of I feel uncomfortable with a subject, I should search out more schooling.

I will definitely take more classes about it!

 

[Ana]

We got a 6 yo with a gun shot to the neck other day, I was working at the ER! I wasn't participating because it was too many stars for one constellation! Room was really stuffed! But I wonder what would i do if tracheostomy site was too damages for tubing (scary to me)?

 

[Veneficus]

I will definitely take more classes about it!

Go large and get a job at a PEDs transport, ER, or ICU.

After a few months, you will make peds look easy.

(anytime you are really good at something it looks so effortless anyone can do it.)

 

[Ana]

On scene...

 

[lawndartcatcher]

Pre-CPAP, it was really, really bad (so filled up it's oozing from their ears) CHF patients.

Now, it's really, really bad CHF patients with contraindications to CPAP.

 

[Veneficus]

Pre-CPAP, it was really, really bad (so filled up it's oozing from their ears) CHF patients.

Now, it's really, really bad CHF patients with contraindications to CPAP.

That is why they invented bumetanide

( I like this thread, assuaging fears is easy )

 

[usalsfyre]

Not a new paramedic, but the can't intubate/can't ventilate patient with significant obstacles to cricothyrotomy (morbidly obese, kyphosis, limited neck mobility) keeps me awake at night.

 

[fast65]

My greatest fear? Well an old member here summed it up pretty well for me one night. It's that eventually someone may die because I was too tired, too slow, or because I just didn't know enough. That is my greatest fear.

 

[Ana]

I agree with fast65

 

[Shishkabob]

Look at the bright side, since they compensate so long before they die, they will likely not crash until the hospital, if they crash at all.

If they do crash before you arrive or with you, they are likely not coming back no matter what you do.

See, nothing to worry about.

Is it bad that I laughed like a maniacal person when I read that?





My fear? Freezing on scene. Been a Paramedic for 2 years, EMS for 3, and it still worries me.

 

[FL Medic]

Thks I think now I will wait more 20 years to get my license

Mine is Peds as well

 

[Outbac1]

Peds can make me nervous. How nervous is directly proportional to the severity of the problem.
The thing I never want to deal with is a car fire with people in it still alive. And nothing you can do.

 

[NomadicMedic]

My biggest fear is getting killed or seriously injured at work, more specifically, in an ambulance crash.

Some of the BLS providers (who have the ambulances that we ALS folks have to ride in) scare the bejabbers out of me.