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EpiEMS said:
Also, unrelated...

Is taking TECC totally worthless for a BLS provider?
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What are you planning to do with it ? This is the kind of stuff that you lose if you don’t use.
 
Qulevrius said:
What are you planning to do with it ? This is the kind of stuff that you lose if you don’t use.
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Other than put the 16 hours of CME on my recert transcript, eh, not really anything in particular. I haven't taken PHTLS, and I though this might be a fun trauma class - especially considering that less than 40% of my calls are vanilla traumatic injury in origin.
 
When the notes say pt is bleeding through his dialysis fistula, on blood thinners, and has serious bleeding and fire only walks in with gloves. Thanks guys.....we will just go ahead and get this tourniquet on now.

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Well I have some good news. I have an interview for an ED Tech (EMT) position on Monday. Wish me luck, y'all.
 
I would like to extend my thanks to the National Registry for giving me an intimate lesson on what heart palpitations and tachycardia feel like....that was fun, let's never ever do that again...

(Of all the skills I had to retest I can't believe it was friggen Long Bone Immobilization! I also have a newfound appreciation for thise posters asking what we think they failed on National, cuz National won't tell us what we messed up ha)
 
cruiseforever said:
Going to be on an ambulance task force for the Super Bowel. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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Indeed, a super bowel is worthy of a task force:D. On the other hand, that was one helluva comeback. Ha! Too bad, so sad for NOLA.
 
Jim37F said:
I would like to extend my thanks to the National Registry for giving me an intimate lesson on what heart palpitations and tachycardia feel like....that was fun, let's never ever do that again...

(Of all the skills I had to retest I can't believe it was friggen Long Bone Immobilization! I also have a newfound appreciation for thise posters asking what we think they failed on National, cuz National won't tell us what we messed up ha)
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Sp what did you forget to do, check PMS before & after [emoji16] ?
 
Qulevrius said:
Sp what did you forget to do, check PMS before & after [emoji16] ?
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lol...best I could tell, I think I busted the 5 min time limit. I made sure to time myself during the retest, and I definitely felt like I was moving faster, and I finished at 4:20

(Felt like I had some trouble cutting up the cardboard splint first time around, second time I didn't try to cut both layers at once haha)
 
Jim37F said:
lol...best I could tell, I think I busted the 5 min time limit. I made sure to time myself during the retest, and I definitely felt like I was moving faster, and I finished at 4:20

(Felt like I had some trouble cutting up the cardboard splint first time around, second time I didn't try to cut both layers at once haha)
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5 min limit, ermagerd... I mean, I’ve seen some people failing skills for a recert, but they were utterly inept. As in, failing a rapid trauma assessment, inept. I dread to think what would’ve happened if they were timed, too.
 
EpiEMS said:
No SAM splint?
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Nope. I've only ever seen them for sale at REI, and in an Army CLS bag before, never seen them used in civilian EMS.

We were using cardboard splints that had their own nylon ties preattached, they came vacuum sealed in a plastic bag, open the bag, remove splint, cut a piece of tape holding the thing shut flat, pull out all the ties folded up inside the splint, measure it, cut it (the first time around I tried to cut both sides at once while it was still flat like that, second time around I cut each side individually and my shears weren't getting gummed up with trying to cut to much thickness that time around, roll the cardboard a bit so it's a more cylindrical shape, not flat when trying to fit around the arm or leg, tie your ties, ensuring it's snug and properly placed...then take your fresh brand new out of the plastic triangular bandage, unfold it, find the apex, tie the knot to make the elbow pocket, feed it under/over around the splint and neck, tie it off on the side, not behind, nice and neat and snug, don't let the proctor be able to dangle their arm lower than 90°, do your last CMS check, verbalizing each of the three parts individually before you can end skill (oh yeah, don't forget "BSI, is my scene safe?", directing your partner to take manual stabilization of the injury and initial CMS check before you can grab the splint in ITS packaging to do all that...5 min goes by pretty quick lol)
 
Jim37F said:
Nope. I've only ever seen them for sale at REI, and in an Army CLS bag before, never seen them used in civilian EMS.

We were using cardboard splints that had their own nylon ties preattached, they came vacuum sealed in a plastic bag, open the bag, remove splint, cut a piece of tape holding the thing shut flat, pull out all the ties folded up inside the splint, measure it, cut it (the first time around I tried to cut both sides at once while it was still flat like that, second time around I cut each side individually and my shears weren't getting gummed up with trying to cut to much thickness that time around, roll the cardboard a bit so it's a more cylindrical shape, not flat when trying to fit around the arm or leg, tie your ties, ensuring it's snug and properly placed...then take your fresh brand new out of the plastic triangular bandage, unfold it, find the apex, tie the knot to make the elbow pocket, feed it under/over around the splint and neck, tie it off on the side, not behind, nice and neat and snug, don't let the proctor be able to dangle their arm lower than 90°, do your last CMS check, verbalizing each of the three parts individually before you can end skill (oh yeah, don't forget "BSI, is my scene safe?", directing your partner to take manual stabilization of the injury and initial CMS check before you can grab the splint in ITS packaging to do all that...5 min goes by pretty quick lol)
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I've never thought about SAM splints either, where I work now we have them, but no place else had them.
 
Jim37F said:
Nope. I've only ever seen them for sale at REI, and in an Army CLS bag before, never seen them used in civilian EMS.
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luke_31 said:
I've never thought about SAM splints either, where I work now we have them, but no place else had them.
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Interesting, I've seen them at both agencies I've worked at, as did the agency I did clinicals with.
 
Jim37F said:
I've only ever seen cardboard and the orange vacuum splints
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You know, now that you mention it, I haven't used a vacuum splint!
 
Fire uses the vacuum splints extensively, same as vacuum c-collars. And SoCal privates are still full-time ghetto with cardboards and hard collars.
 
Qulevrius said:
Fire uses the vacuum splints extensively, same as vacuum c-collars. And SoCal privates are still full-time ghetto with cardboards and hard collars.
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Vacuum c-collars? Must be pricey.
 
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