The worst thing on a new day with a new partner

enema kit

why do you need any type of medical equipment for a vacation?
 
lol...thanks





our station is going to france monday (GMT) untill friday and were in a remote area, so we said we would each take 1 vital piece of equipment
 
i dont understand....

are you guys going to bring things just in case so you can play ricky rescue...or are you all doing training there or what...if training, shouldnt all the equipment be provided?
 
as i said remote, so if there is an accident and we need ambulance, we have a better chance of survival :D
 
Um...

How could you tell that you punctured a lung? In fact, how could you tell that you broke a rib instead of just the cartilage cracking, or the rib didn't puncture the lung before you got there, causing a tension pneumo and as such, causing the arrest?


And, if the patient was truly in cardiac arrest, how would you get in trouble for breaking a rib, if you somehow DID break it?
 
we could tell a rib was broken because of an abnormal rib bone and we could also tell that lung was punctured because when did oxygen instead of compressions it was like different/wierd hard to describe
 
Linuss said:
Um...

How could you tell that you punctured a lung? In fact, how could you tell that you broke a rib instead of just the cartilage cracking, or the rib didn't puncture the lung before you got there, causing a tension pneumo and as such, causing the arrest?


And, if the patient was truly in cardiac arrest, how would you get in trouble for breaking a rib, if you somehow DID break it?
Click to expand...

For my own benefit...couldn't you tell that you broke the rib if their was a deformity, crepitus, or a flail segment? You would also have reason to believe you may have punctured the lung if you detect evidence of pneumothorax?
 
quite like i said, an abnormality in the bone
 
Let's try to keep a thread to one topic, and keep it on that topic the entire time please.

And name calling will not be tolerated.
 
blterry said:
he did not do properly which made your patient die
idk just kinda figured this btw i am not any kind of medical personel
Click to expand...
Well, if you're gonna do CPR, usually your patient is already dead. Can't kill somebody that's already dead. :) However, not always true cause you can still start CPR on people whose pulse is so slow that it's doing them no justice to living at all e.g. an infant with a pulse rate less than 60 and symptomatic.
 
tom said:
i called air ambulance to come with a doctor because the lung was punctured
Click to expand...

Hmm .... this all sounds a bit funny. So what was wrong with this guy in the first place? It sounds like a primary arrest that went a bit pear shaped and ended up as a pneumothorax or a haemopneumothorax.

If that was indeed the case I am not sure if I would have bothered calling HEMS.

Can UK Paramedics not do a chest decompression?

Do you not have BASICS in WM?

Are you an Ambulance Technician or one of these new ECA/ECSWs?
 
Lifeguards For Life said:
Cool Story Bro!
Click to expand...

No... He's British.... it's....

cool_story_bro2.jpg
 
Lucid is my new favourite person.

Cawolf86 said:
"Tom's" threads are.....fun?
Click to expand...

Aren't they.


Now, TOM, what's your deal mate? Would you mind telling us a bit about yourself? I'm quite curious about your posts. Mostly in the sense that you clearly know almost nothing about medicine, but claim to be a medic. It almost feels like those posts where English is not the poster's first language. Are you one of those new "first aid only" driver types that brown mentioned?
 
Melclin said:
Aren't they.


Now, TOM, what's your deal mate? Would you mind telling us a bit about yourself? I'm quite curious about your posts. Mostly in the sense that you clearly know almost nothing about medicine, but claim to be a medic. It almost feels like those posts where English is not the poster's first language. Are you one of those new "first aid only" driver types that brown mentioned?
Click to expand...
Looks fluent to me. I think he was just struggling to sound like a Paramedic. Plus if he was using first aid, one of those ambulance drivers Brown was talking about, or whatever, he wouldn't haved lied in that other post where he tried pretending he could interpret 12-leads when I threw a PVC at him.

Check it out http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=18973&page=3

He didn't say he could interpet it, but he played it out.

Edit: You already saw that post too. He was defintely trying to hype himself up to being a Paramedic, not just using it interchangeably with first aid or ambulance driver.

Looks like he is gone now though. He was extremely active for two days or so, and bam, not a single post now.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Just ended a 48, was home long enough to take a shower and got called in for another 12. Good thing I like my job ^_^
 
Last edited by a moderator:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top