Post your favorite piece of EMS dogma.....

[STXmedic]

I've never actually seen PASGs...

 

[gotbeerz001]

I've never actually seen PASGs...

I've worn them... A new pair. In class.


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[ERDoc]

<raises hand> I've used PASG/MAST on actual pts. I also have used "reusable" c-collars and bagged conscious pts because CPAP didn't exist.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I also have used PASG, philly c collars, a lifepak 5 with paddles and an EOA.

 

[CALEMT]

I've never actually seen PASGs...

I thought they were an EMS myth...

 

[DesertMedic66]

<raises hand> I've used PASG/MAST on actual pts. I also have used "reusable" c-collars and bagged conscious pts because CPAP didn't exist.

We have CPAP but we are now starting to bag more conscious patients.

 

[exodus]

<raises hand> I've used PASG/MAST on actual pts. I also have used "reusable" c-collars and bagged conscious pts because CPAP didn't exist.

Like desert said, we bag conscious patients out here with good success apparently.

 

[NUEMT]

Like desert said, we bag conscious patients out here with good success apparently.

Any literature on this?

 

[NUEMT]

No one has mentioned carotid sinus massage????

NO npa in skull fracture/tbi...????

Come on.. I know you guys have some doozies.

 

[usalsfyre]

Kick away..Why the cringe.. yours is a bit less obvious.

It's very hard to treat a tension pneumo or react to a "can't intubate/can't ventilate" using "BLS before ALS".

How about its all medical care, do what's appropriate when it's appropriate to your level.

 

[usalsfyre]

Every patient gets a d-stick

Diesel bouls

ANYTHING involving the words "mechanism of injury" as a justification

"It's just a fever"

The word "paragod"

The idea that medicine is somehow different "in the street"

"Just open the dopamine up till you get a pressure"

Using succinylcholine for its short half life

The idea that sick kids don't need IVs

And about 100 more....

 

[Woodtownemt]

Catching the last part of Ricky rescue partner tell a pt, "....not in my ambulance".

 

[epipusher]

Dogma or not, calling an ambulance a 'bus' is like nails on a chalkboard.

 

[NUEMT]

Dogma or not, calling an ambulance a 'bus' is like nails on a chalkboard.

Haha.. is it an east coadt thing... We say ambo...or box in the burbs of chicago