the 100% directionless thread

[ViolynEMT]

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.

 

[TransportJockey]

Yeah I felt bad for my partner, he was fine with it though, more OT money.

Also, anyone have experience with the I-GELS? We just switched from king tubes to those this month, twice now that I have seen they interfere with the capno line and wont give you a reading.

Pecos uses them. I hate them. I would rather have a king tube or an lma supreme.

 

[STXmedic]

Yeah I felt bad for my partner, he was fine with it though, more OT money.

Also, anyone have experience with the I-GELS? We just switched from king tubes to those this month, twice now that I have seen they interfere with the capno line and wont give you a reading.

We trialed them. I was not overly impressed.

 

[NomadicMedic]

Apparently the new service is getting them. Just got an email about an inservice.

And, I'm working a 24 for the first time since 2010 tomorrow. :/

 

[Burritomedic1127]

Yeah I felt bad for my partner, he was fine with it though, more OT money.

Also, anyone have experience with the I-GELS? We just switched from king tubes to those this month, twice now that I have seen they interfere with the capno line and wont give you a reading.

Recently had a 4 month pedi code and the I-gel worked great with end tidal readings in high teens. Kid was pretty small, don't know maybe end tidals fluctuate with different size I-gels

 

[TransportJockey]

Part of it is you're supposed to wriggle the thyroid cartlige when you insert an igel to make sure it seats itself correctly. In larger adults there are still issues getting it to seat right

 

[Ewok Jerky]

you're supposed to wriggle the thyroid cartilage

Sounds like a first rate medical device.

 

[Carlos Danger]

Part of it is you're supposed to wriggle the thyroid cartlige when you insert an igel to make sure it seats itself correctly

Is that in the device manufacturer's literature somewhere?

 

[TransportJockey]

Is that in the device manufacturer's literature somewhere?

I'll have to look. It came out in a clinical update for my service.

 

[PotatoMedic]

One of my class mates has used an iGel on a cardiac arrest. They said it worked great.

 

[Chewy20]

I mean theyre easier then the kings obviously, we were getting good rise and fall and good lung sounds but the end tidal wasn't working. Tried it on both of our monitors and nothing. Fire told us they had the same issue earlier in the day. We eventually switched IGELS and saved the defected one for the brass to look at later on to see whats going on with them.

 

[ViolynEMT]

I just watched a video on insertion of the iGel. It seems pretty straightforward. I didn't see anything about "wriggling the thyroid cartilage ". Seems like it's a better or easier way to prevent aspiration, too. But.....I've never used one, so.......

 

[irishboxer384]

just too fun to not share, when the commentator says 'oh my god that's disgusting'..you know it's good!

on another note i-gels are cool, easy placement and never heard of/been taught any 'wriggling' for insertion, especially since it was mainly designed to absolute minimal complications for insertion

 

[NomadicMedic]

Seems cool.

 

[Angel]

I got ROSC, then lost it, then ER got it again after I gave Epi and they did compressions....does that count?

 

[Ewok Jerky]

if.there.is.a.god.please.no.more.snow.

 

[ViolynEMT]

Seems cool.

That's the same video I watched before. Really good!

 

[Chewy20]

I got ROSC, then lost it, then ER got it again after I gave Epi and they did compressions....does that count?

Do you want it to count?

 

[PotatoMedic]

if.there.is.a.god.please.no.more.snow.

Send it to my neck of the woods!

 

[Ewok Jerky]

need a new phone. well, want a new phone. coming from the htc one, no real problems with it, just dont like it anymore. I have some problems with the keyboard and the battery is getting old. what phone should I look at and why?