the 100% directionless thread

I did my first surgery today and I would say that overall it was a success. Granted I had to open the patient back up and do some more cleaning, but there were really only minor complications.

So, if anyone has a galaxy S3 and manages to break the screen, replacing it isn't too hard if you are comfortable taking a heat gun and razor blade to your phone.
 
Aidey said:
I did my first surgery today and I would say that overall it was a success. Granted I had to open the patient back up and do some more cleaning, but there were really only minor complications.

So, if anyone has a galaxy S3 and manages to break the screen, replacing it isn't too hard if you are comfortable taking a heat gun and razor blade to your phone.
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So I'm taking it you did surgery on your phone?
 
Chris07 said:
I'm sorry but all these username changes are making my head hurt...:wacko:

I'm like..who the heck is this guy? Oh wait...that's so-and-so! STOP...CAN'T....TAKE....ANYMORE....CHANGES....*collapses*
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Concur
 
What happened to Veneficus and Linuss?
 
katgrl2003 said:
I'll trade you the 12000-14000 we do each month.
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I wish it was that quiet here, on average each month we respond to 33,000 calls or an average of 46 calls per hour, every hour, 365 days a year.

10 calls in a day shift is not unusual, nights are a bit quieter, about 5 calls per shift.

As recently as 20 years ago an ambulance was for a life-and-death emergency but now people are like I dno, what the hell is wrong with people? I hear stories from the veterans about how if they were on the ICP ambulance then they only went to serious, life threatening events; a good example if life threatening asthma, its virtually non existent and the old buggers reckon they used to get 1 or 2 a week back in the old days.

I mean I like talking to people and helping them and such but man, sometimes its so frustrating being called for total BS ... your sniffles or cut finger is not an emergency!
 
Whenever I see a notification for a private message, I think of all the bad things I've done to recieve an infraction. :unsure:
 
Achilles said:
Whenever I see a notification for a private message, I think of all the bad things I've done to recieve an infraction. :unsure:
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At least I'm not the only one.
 
One of my Facebook acquaintances is a volunteer firefighter now, and is blowing up my news feed with gory pictures from paramedic pages and his "firefighters save lives" Ricky Rescue mess. I want to ask him how much of this he has actually done, and what life saving measures he's done in his week-long career as a volunteer, but I know it isn't worth it.

I mean, I love my job and am proud of what I do. I'm glad he likes it too, but I'm also realistic enough to know that picking lols up out of the floor, while fulfilling, is far from life saving. Plus he gives full-frontal hugs, which is bothersome.
 
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Not the full frontal hugs!
 
Tigger said:
Dog just got put to sleep...this really sucks but I'm happy he could go peacefully at home.
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So sorry to hear that. Its not easy losing a pet. My mom is playing a waiting game with one of her fur-kids. Rose has CHF and is getting Furosemide three times a day SQ. She doesn't have a good prognosis, but we're doing what we can to make her comfortable. And of course since I'm the critter nurse, I'm the one giving the injections and my mom is the one soothing her afterwards. I did have the vet shave a patch on the back of Rose's neck so I could try to teach my mom how to do the injections, but she just can't bring herself to do it.
 
Sometimes I really despise the torture families make patients endure.

We have frequent flyer on our floor who has been admitted every few weeks for the past couple months. She is 100 y/o, bedridden, contracted, A&Ox1, and barely responsive. The patient's family refuses to make the patient a DNR after repeated pleas. Yesterday we placed a feeding tube. The patient grimaces and moans and is obviously suffering. The nursing staff, physicians, and palliative care all agree on the futility of care and there is discussion of getting the Ethics Committee involved. Today she began to go downhill and again the family insisted on aggressive treatment. By the end of the day she is now intubated, has two chest tubes, a central line, rectal tube and on CRRT. The Renal MD even refused to perform the dialysis and they had to consult a new doctor.

I never felt so disgusted. I felt like everything we did was wrong

Oh and the patient's son is a MD...
 
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Clare said:
Ugh I hate this, I had a patient who was a Doctor, he was rather argumentative
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...but was he unreasonably argumentative? If you try to be a NRB on be because of "protocol" without any sort of clinical reasoning, I'm going to be rather argumentative as well. Backboard? Get that thing away from me. Lights and sirens? Aww... hell no.
 
JPINFV said:
...but was he unreasonably argumentative? If you try to be a NRB on be because of "protocol" without any sort of clinical reasoning, I'm going to be rather argumentative as well. Backboard? Get that thing away from me. Lights and sirens? Aww... hell no.
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If you ever end up in my ambulance I'm strapping you to a backboard with non rebreathers.
 
Robb said:
If you ever end up in my ambulance I'm strapping you to a backboard with non rebreathers.
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Thanks... I just won the lawsuit jackpot!

:D
 
Robb said:
If you ever end up in my ambulance I'm strapping you to a backboard with non rebreathers.
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While driving Code 3 to
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwkG7vPyQmA[/YOUTUBE]


:rofl:
 
Robb said:
If you ever end up in my ambulance I'm strapping you to a backboard with non rebreathers.
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They're going to be the tie-downs... ;) all flowing 15LPM.
 
Achilles said:
Whenever I see a notification for a private message, I think of all the bad things I've done to recieve an infraction. :unsure:
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We gotta add some spice and color to this place once in a while!
I get em, too. Don't sweat it.
 
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