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DEmedic said:
I'd guess his tachycardia was from one of the other drugs he ingested, not the opiates/opioids.
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No clue. After our little struggle his heart rate went down to 120bpm and stayed there for the rest of the transport.
 
CALEMT said:
Yes. But it depends where you are at and what terminology you use. I've heard people use tankers as water tenders... I guess its a soda/pop, tomato/tomahto thing
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For the most part, I've found the split to be along the Missouri River. West of there, tankers have wings. East of there, they have blinking lights and sirens.
 
I'm going to lose it if I hear one more ridiculous statement or question on the radio...

"Medic xx traffic over here, access X to Y"

"XX copies...what do you think about X to Y because of all the event traffic?"

#facepalm #icanttakeitanymore #stopbeingdumb
 
This guy just got a fire truck lunchbox with little flaps so I can see the little fire boots, hat, hose and axe!

Totally going 3rd Grade on work tomorrow.
 
Rocketmedic40 said:
This guy just got a fire truck lunchbox with little flaps so I can see the little fire boots, hat, hose and axe!

Totally going 3rd Grade on work tomorrow.
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I have that lunch box!
 
Tinder is an awesome app not going to lie... Talk about potential! ;)

DesertEMT66 said:
We had a patient high on a cocktail on drugs. HR 166 after resting in bed for 1 hour, dehydrated, BP 138/50, and pupils fully dilated. Patient is calm and very polite. We start transporting and the medic decides to do a slow IV push of .5 narcan (the patient even wanted it).

A couple of seconds after that the patient looks at a pair of trauma shears, looks at the medic, then says "I'm going to kill you" and goes bat :censored::censored::censored::censored: crazy. Pull over and call for PD while I hop in back to help pin the patient down. We are able to restrain the patient and calm him down.

Just as I get out from the back of the ambulance I hear sirens and tires squealing. PD is doing a sliding stop and gets out of his unit with the tazer in hand. We cancel him, thank him a lot, and then continue on to the hospital. The patient never made any aggressive movements or used any force against us.

About 5 minutes later the patient is crying and saying how sorry he is. No other issues at all during transport.

It's been one of those days for our area.
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So he's poly pharm, obviously under the influence of a stimulant (tachycardic, borderline hypertensive, dilated pupils I'd be willing to bet he was diaphoretic too, just maybe have seen a few of these wonderful patients) but calm...why take the only thing away that's keeping him from going Pac Man on you? Especially when they're awake...

Glad y'all are OK. How much higher did his rate go up after the naloxone?

Thank goodness for OnDemand...missed all the LA X Games this year. Now I just get to watch to good stuff :)
 
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exodus said:
Does anyone happen to know the direction of travel for that fire as well?
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I'm pretty sure that I heard it was headed east towards the tram.
 
Thanks to Netflix, I've had a marathon of Friday the 13th movies.
 
CALEMT said:
I'm pretty sure that I heard it was headed east towards the tram.
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That how it appears. As long as the 79 doesn't get closed, I'm good to get to to work. They evacuated parts of cabazon last night.
 
exodus said:
That how it appears. As long as the 79 doesn't get closed, I'm good to get to to work. They evacuated parts of cabazon last night.
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Wow no kidding. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Silver fire will be bigger than the Mountain fire
 
Robb said:
Tinder is an awesome app not going to lie... Talk about potential! ;)



So he's poly pharm, obviously under the influence of a stimulant (tachycardic, borderline hypertensive, dilated pupils I'd be willing to bet he was diaphoretic too, just maybe have seen a few of these wonderful patients) but calm...why take the only thing away that's keeping him from going Pac Man on you? Especially when they're awake...

Glad y'all are OK. How much higher did his rate go up after the naloxone?

Thank goodness for OnDemand...missed all the LA X Games this year. Now I just get to watch to good stuff :)
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Right after we have him the narcan we have no clue. Monitor leads came off, pulse ox came off, and the IV came out. After we got him under control his rate was in the high 110 to low 120s.

Actually he wasn't diaphoretic at all.
 
exodus said:
Oh boy, today's going to be fun:

http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.d...0807&Category=NEWS0803&ArtNo=308070802&Ref=PH

http://cmsimg.gdn.mydesert.com/apps...08070802&Ref=PH&Item=4&Maxw=620&Maxh=465&q=90
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It was bad last night when I got off of work at 1800.
Monroe st looking west onto I10
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Silent Hill esk
 
So tired :( 108 hours this week.
 
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