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Glucose meter
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Ah, thanks not to familiar with the north west, I take it that King County is run seperatly then?
Unless I am mistaken it has nothing to do with the calibration. The blood glucose levels of venous blood differ from capillary blood for the same reason that an axillary temperature differs from a rectal one. Its not that the thermometer is calibr...
I see the future as requiring an Associates Degree for Paramedic with a Bachelors available in Community paramedicine. More in depth A&P, psychology, education on social services, etc. It frustrates me not that we are mobile social workers as that...
I know we had a situation just this week where one of our City Council members, (who is the past fire union president) in conjunction with our current Fire Department IAFF local, attempted to get a proposal passed to "examine the cost benefits" of...
The patients MAP was ~ 125mmHg why would you administer Atropine? That is potentially harmful and definatly inappropriate. Treat the Pt not the monitor, numbers are only important in context and in this case while a HR of 30 is abnormal its not th...
Does your LP12 not have the 2 small moulded hooks on the rear of the casing below the handle? Most should unless you have purposefully removed them as I believe that they are a factory standard item. If you use these the monitor should hang on the...
Same as above, we are actually utilizing it with our BLS providers on a BVM with one firefighter maintaining the mask seal and the other bagging. Not ideal and certainly not always effective at maintaining the negative intrathoracic pressure but i...
It is also an excellent adjunct for monitoring sedation waveforms in addition to the previously mentioned bronchospastic waveforms. We place most patients on capnography these days and virtually any patient that has a respiratory complaint or is r...
I tend to think that an employer can differentiate the reasonable restrictions that are in the communities best interest such as not allowing one spouse to supervise another, from restrictions that would severely impact a family with negligible po...
Is anyone giving benzodiazepines to patients prior to adenosine administration as an anti-anxiolytic?
I can understand requiring different stations, units, supervisors, battalions, districts, never working together etc. And I certainly am not a huge proponent of the idea of having a relationship with a coworker. I do however believe strongly that ...
So we are going to attempt blind insertions of endotracheal tubes? When there is a number of people arguing that the research data shows paramedics shouldnt even be intubating when they can see the ETT pass the cords? I would be very hesitant to b...
Sorry long shift, I meant that perhaps you or some of the other system administrators/directors on here have opinions on how to improve the Utopia model.
Maybe Skip or one of the other managers on the site that actually have to make these decisions will have some valuable input.
Ben let me preface this with the fact that I am a firefighter as well. ALS interventions needs to be limited to a much smaller group of individuals than most systems currently use and I think most people will agree with that. Personnel making medi...
Why is the out of chute time 2-5 minutes? How is that acceptable? My out of chute time averages right around 48 seconds on average every month and the slowest paramedic at my station averages 1:06. (24-hour station, required to sleep in beds only ...
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- At 11:21pm on August 3, 2009,
Nathan said… - I think your picture of your rig is the best one on here, the lighting is right the color is great, your a lucky man, except for the Texas heat, that would suck......
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