You know you are an EMT/Paramedic when...

You Dx a GI bleed from the elevator in a high rise
 
You know where all the clean gas station bathrooms are in your area.

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..the scariest thing you can think of for a base haunted house is to place a pseudo review committee in your board room...
 
When you ask for a pocket pulse ox for your birthday.

Yup thats what I want for my bday in a few weeks lol

Im sick of going into the ER and explaining im not capable of obtaining a spo2 reading.
 
Anjel1030 said:
When you ask for a pocket pulse ox for your birthday.

Yup thats what I want for my bday in a few weeks lol

Im sick of going into the ER and explaining im not capable of obtaining a spo2 reading.
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Really? I would never purchase and use my own biomedical equipment on the job. If the hospital REALLY needs an SpO2, they can get it themselves.


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Spo2 is kind of inaccurate and useless half the time anyway, especially the little cheapie finger units.
 
n7lxi said:
Really? I would never purchase and use my own biomedical equipment on the job. If the hospital REALLY needs an SpO2, they can get it themselves.


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Its nice to have though. Especially because a lot of nursing homes send out and reject pts due to low spo2 readings.
 
Sasha said:
Spo2 is kind of inaccurate and useless half the time anyway, especially the little cheapie finger units.
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Actually to be allowed to be sold they have to be accurate within a certain amount of percent. Crappy due to improper reading of waveform, maybe. But if you have a good waveform, you'll have a fairly accurate result.
 
Make sure that you are allowed to use it by your medical director for your level of certification also.

don't want to p**s off doc due to a b-day present
 
johnrsemt said:
Make sure that you are allowed to use it by your medical director for your level of certification also.

don't want to p**s off doc due to a b-day present
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We are. We used to have the on every truck until the basics kept loosing them.
 
exodus said:
Actually to be allowed to be sold they have to be accurate within a certain amount of percent. Crappy due to improper reading of waveform, maybe. But if you have a good waveform, you'll have a fairly accurate result.
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I explained this to a doctor when I was taking care of a cardiac patient off duty the other day. He wanted to know why I was waiting to give him the pulseox reading...
 
you know you're in EMS when...

someone asks you if you are a morning person or a night person and you just stare at them blankly
 
mediKate said:
someone asks you if you are a morning person or a night person and you just stare at them blankly
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I just tell them I'm an emt.
 
mediKate said:
someone asks you if you are a morning person or a night person and you just stare at them blankly
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Night person, hands down. I hate mornings even though I'm up before 0730 every morning minus a rare few.
 
When your friends ask you what time you have class/school/have to wake up and you respond with military time and they give you this look :unsure:


Caveat: my friends are idiots. I love them, but they are oblivious sometimes.
 
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NVRob said:
When your friends ask you what time you have class/school/have to wake up and you respond with military time and they give you this look :unsure:


Caveat: my friends are idiots. I love them, but they are oblivious sometimes.
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I do this all the time. Or when someone asks me what time it is. My watch is set in military time lol

Flightorbust said:
When your friends call you before they call 911
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And this. My family does that.
 
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