I agree.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.
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I agree.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 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.
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
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.
34 degrees right now in Southern California? Poop just got real.
It's 16 here. So shush
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.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.