"You will kill the patient doing that!!!"

EMSLaw said:
We discussed that in class. Here's a simple test. Put a pulse-ox on your finger. Hold your breath for as long as you can. See how much the number changes. :P

Still, the National Registry says thirty seconds or else.
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Yeah it takes a few minutes for pulse-ox to change. That is why with any pt. with a respiratory component I used end-tidal CO2 so I can tell immediately that they are not breathing.
 
Haven't been indoctrinated with too many ZOMG!! You'll Kill The Patient!! type deals other than the COPD hypoxic drive thing that everyone seems to get. Although a lot of people around here seem to believe that narcan is the antidote to benzo OD...yeah.

And this is the only kill story I've got.

Back when I was an EMT I watched an OCFA medic kill someone with lidocaine. I didn't understand what was happening at the time, and the only reason it sticks out in my memory was because my partner at the time was in paramedic school and sort of questioned what the OCFA guy was doing and was quickly shut down with a level of belittling derision that only OCFA FF's are capable of. Thinking back on it now, I think I know what happened. I think the patient was in some kind of ideoventricular rhythm, and the medic OCFA Protocol Droid decided to give them a bolus of lido...patient coded right after.
 
I kill patients all the time. Laughter heals everything except a broken rib.
 
The Biggest one.

IF YOU ARE IN HOLLYWOOD:
your pt collapses, check for a pulse, yell GET THE CRASH CART, start Hollywood CPR, at a rate of 20 compressions to 3 breaths, shock asystole and push 7cc of adrenaline, then say we got them back, wait 30 seconds your pt will wake up and you and him can walk down to the cafeteria together and grab a cup of coffee.
 
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