the 100% directionless thread

[Aprz]

I wasn't saying he didn't need to be intubated... I was saying with what I have... I wasn't doing it when he was stable and I was close.

I agree.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Looks like a bad call with all the ambulances, nope. It's just a video we are making for our Christmas party.

 

[TransportJockey]

I understand the feeling... When I was kid I lost a friend around this time. I didn't realize how much it still affected me until a cardiac arrest call the other day.

My former girlfriend's birthday is NY Day... and it hits me how much I miss her every holiday season...

 

[lightsandsirens5]

Ugh I absolutely hate this time of year... Never really known why, but the past two or three years, the holiday season makes me even more depressed than usual... which tends to be a rather lot

I know exactly what you mean bro...

 

[Handsome Robb]

Breathing fine has nothing to do with it. I could not care less. Breathing or not.

It is airway patentcy that I am concerned about. He has a high potential of loosing that patent airway so fast, you couldn't even get your suction turned on. The man has a GCS of THREE. You probably aren't even going to need drugs, for one. Crash him, tubed in 2-3 minutes, at the ER within 5-6. With a solidly patent airway.

BLS airway has it's place, don't get me wrong. But in my opinion, this is an ALS airway patient.

Part of the reason that is my opinion is because I would get called up by QA/QI and asked why he didn't get a tube. And as previously stated, I am rather on the aggressive side of airway management.

Maybe I'm desensitized to gross intoxication from where I work but this patient would not be intubated here. Monitored in the ER until they were awake, alert and ambulatory and then kicked loose.

I'd probably lose my job if I came in with a drunk person intubated, especially if they were doing just fine with a NPA and supplemental o2.

 

[9D4]

So, I looked outside a while ago and an engine from the local fd was driving by.
They decked that thing out with lights. Lights lining the top and bottom, all the storage bays, everything. It is pretty awesome..

 

[JPINFV]

34 degrees right now in Southern California? Poop just got real.

 

[exodus]

34 degrees right now in Southern California? Poop just got real.

31 here where I live.

Edit: nope, 30.

 

[JPINFV]

...and I was stupid enough to try and do laundry tonight. Walking across my apartment complex to the laundry room sucks.

 

[Anjel]

It's 16 here. So shush

 

[9D4]

Well... normally I can brag that it's warmer here. That's the only decent thing about Arizona... but 37 isn't so warm. Especially when your room doesn't have a heater -_-
It was 46 in my room when I got up this morning. It sucks.

 

[exodus]

It's 16 here. So shush

You're not in So-Cal. We're frozen at 40.

 

[Anjel]

You're not in So-Cal. We're frozen at 40.

I guess that's true lol it was 49 here last week and I was out in short sleeves.

 

[JPINFV]

You're not in So-Cal. We're frozen at 40.

40? Hell, growing up I'd break out the ski jacket for anything below 60.

 

[Carlos Danger]

64 here in SC at 6am.

Forecast is for 76 and sunny.

 

[TransportJockey]

Twelve degrees here. Supposed to get up to around thirty.

 

[Aprz]

28F here, but I don't feel it since I have a heater.

 

[CFal]

I guess that's true lol it was 49 here last week and I was out in short sleeves.

Last year we were down 40 below 0 for a week, one day even 65 below, next week it was 30 and I was in short sleeves

 

[CALEMT]

I thought I lived in the desert where it's sunny and 75.

 

[SSwain]

When I got in this morning, it was 3 degrees F
Now it's a balmy 12

Wednesday night I might have to break out my winter coat. They are talking -7 degrees F.

Hell, if it's above 40, I am in short sleeves and a wind breaker.