AHA 2015 Guidelines: A Preview
On October 15, the new American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECG will be published. Then we will get the answers to the big questions many of us have wondered about? 1. Has epinephrine in cardiac arrest seen its last days? 2. Should paramedics continue to intubate cardiac arrest patients? 3. Will traditional CPR […]
Chemical Reactions
You’ve heard the expression – that person is “off their meds.’ It is not just used about our patients, but often about our co-workers and friends. I think back in the cave days people were either crazy or they were sane. Now it is much more complicated. Science even postulates that we may not have […]
Musings on EJs
EJs (External Jugular veins IVs) have become a lost art form around these parts. A paramedic can’t get an IV, the medic reaches right for the EZ-IO and drills a hundred dollar needle into someone’s tibia like they are drilling a screw into a wall to hang a picture. Sometimes the medic reaches right for […]
Lights and Sirens
This past week I had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of a new paramedic memoir. Kevin Grange’s Lights and Sirens is an authentic, compelling narrative of Grange’s journey through UCLA paramedic school and field internship on Los Angeles’s dangerous streets as he trains to save the lives of victims of heart attack, stroke […]
Thoughts on Ebola
Working at the hospital and on the ambulance, it has been heavy duty Ebola lately. Memos, flyers, posters, policies, and lots of questions. I have written power points, given talks and had many conversations on Ebola. Every day I read the CDC site for updates, which are numerous. I have even, along with two of […]
Connecticut Limits Long Boards
On February 21, 2013 I wrote the post In Praise of CEMSMAC, to celebrate the courage of Connecticut’s top EMS doctors to back the draft document on spinal boards proposed by the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP), and to use that document as a guideline to developing statewide guidelines limiting the use of long […]
Peter Canning
The Butler Did It
Gooooodness do I want to print this out and leave it in the EMS room. What do you think the accuracy is of what you were called for and what the actual complaint was? It is a pet peeve of mine when report is started that way because it almost never relates back to the…
2015-03-03 01:09:38
Practice (Revisited)
My dad donated himself for UCONN with the sole purpose of medical staff being able to learn. When he was signing the papers the staff told him that sometimes they are full and unable to accept his body. I think some people ask to go this route as it is a free way to have…
2015-03-03 01:02:08
The Butler Did It
Try CHAMPS (in a more logical order than SAMPLE) C - Chief Complaint H - History A - Allergies M - Medicines P - Previous Activity S - Signs/Symptoms (vitals)
2015-02-26 03:01:09
AHA 2015 Guidelines: A Preview
Whether you are excellent at intubation or not is irrelevant. I can drop an iGel airway with an NG tube in a patient and apply the vent before most people could finish prepping for an intubation. That is the goal. Less time securing an airway and more time focusing on compressions, drug therapy, and reversing…
2015-02-24 23:54:11
The Butler Did It
Good day, I have trouble making a patient report to a triage nurse. Sometimes I don't know how to remember all the important stuff and summarize it effectively.
2015-02-23 18:27:14
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