the 100% directionless thread

Remi said:
Oh no, not the dreaded OR. It is so much worse than the non-dreaded OR. :)

Seriously, I wish I could have some of you guys come spend the day with me and my partner on a busy day. We'd have you doing airway assessments, dropping tubes, stuffing LMA's, switching LMA's out for tubes, masking every patient for at least 10 minutes, using US to scan lungs and vasculature.....it'd be fun.

Edit: maybe even place a a-line or two.
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If I could just get a couple hours of time doing BLS airway maneuvers and bagging, I'd be a happy camper. No fancy tubes or anything for me, I promise!

Chase said:
That would be amazing. Unfortunately I will be going to a Level 1 academic center that uses predominantly AAs. I almost wish they would let us go to the GI lab, they always seem to be so nonchalant.
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How's working with AAs been? More or less the same as CRNAs as far as scope?

Tigger said:
Our OR rotations (all four of them :() were the best part of medic school for me. So much resuscitation knowledge to be had too. Granted I found the OR to be a terrifying environment since I'd never spent any time in them but my program partnered with several anesthesiologists who wanted to precept paramedic students and it was great. Pretty excited to go back for my RSI class sometime in the new year.
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Is it typical for anesthesiologists to want to precept?

Remi said:
If I had to pick just one....probably Jefferson Reserve or Elijah Craig. But any good bourbon, really.
:)
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Ahh, my friend, if you haven't tried Jefferson Reserve's bourbon aged at sea, you are in need of some! It is the tops!
 
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I did my annual clinical skills day today. I always hope (and fear) it's going to be really challenging and make me sweat... and it never delivers.

I really wish we were pushed harder.
 
EpiEMS said:
Ahh, my friend, if you haven't tried Jefferson Reserve's bourbon aged at sea, you are in need of some! It is the tops!
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Haven't tried it yet. A surgeon I work with recommended it and they had it at the store last time I picked up a bottle, but it was a little pricey for me.
 
Remi said:
Haven't tried it yet. A surgeon I work with recommended it and they had it at the store last time I picked up a bottle, but it was a little pricey for me.
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Bought it for a family member's (significant) birthday - it's well worth the purchase if you can find an event to justify it!

(NPR did a brief story about it!)
 
EpiEMS said:
Is it typical for anesthesiologists to want to precept?
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Eight of them signed onto to it of the 20+ providers they have.

One of our OR rotations was at a different hospital with no agreement between the department and the paramedic program, the difference was night and day.
 
Tigger said:
Eight of them signed onto to it of the 20+ providers they have.

One of our OR rotations was at a different hospital with no agreement between the department and the paramedic program, the difference was night and day.
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Oh man, I just want some airway management practice...I so rarely get the opportunity to BVM, drop OPAs and NPAs, and suction.

I need to make friends with an anesthesiologist...
 
Got some weak spots to brush up on, but I am now cleared to test. Finally ending the nightmare. :D
 
Tigger said:
Eight of them signed onto to it of the 20+ providers they have.

One of our OR rotations was at a different hospital with no agreement between the department and the paramedic program, the difference was night and day.
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That is cool.

I rarely had a good experience in the OR when I occasionally found myself there as a paramedic. Of course a lot of it has to do with the people there not knowing you from Adam, having no idea what you can or can't do, and being busy with their own busy day at the same time.
 
November 8th and subsequent days are gonna be big for the AR-15 industry.
 
CALEMT said:
November 8th and subsequent days are gonna be big for the AR-15 industry.
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And I'm going down tomorrow to hopefully get one and maybe toss in some stripped lowers due to the CA law that starts the first of the year
 
Off work and time for some birthday drinking!

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Jim37F said:
So my dad is talking about voting for Bernie as a write in candidate, so I Google'd his VP pick, Tulsi Gabbard.....yeesh if she was in Hillary's place I would prob vote for her without a second thought just reading her bio.....

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard)
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She seems cool - as a person and a professional soldier. Not sure I could vote for her on much else than those merits...
Then again, I already voted for Evergreen.

DesertMedic66 said:
And I'm going down tomorrow to hopefully get one and maybe toss in some stripped lowers due to the CA law that starts the first of the year
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What's the new law? No more removable magazines, right?
 
You can only have blanks.
 
FireWA1 said:
You can only have blanks.
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Wait, what? You've gotta be joking. Even in the Soviet Socialist Empire of New York, you can have an AR-15-ish firearm.
 
DesertMedic66 said:
And I'm going down tomorrow to hopefully get one and maybe toss in some stripped lowers due to the CA law that starts the first of the year
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I might do the same.
 
CALEMT said:
November 8th and subsequent days are gonna be big for the AR-15 industry.
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Just dumped 3 grand on an ar-15(ACR), with like 4 magazines... Thought I'd be safe on sights so I didn't get that. Can't wait to see them try and take them from me..>.<
 
EpiEMS said:
She seems cool - as a person and a professional soldier. Not sure I could vote for her on much else than those merits...
Then again, I already voted for Evergreen.



What's the new law? No more removable magazines, right?
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In order to remove the magazine you must have to remove the action from the gun or pretty much field strip the gun.
 
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