Check out this new blog about 12-Lead ECG’s. Very informative. Tom B who runs it has posted some thoughtful comments here, including ones that helped me understand MIs and bundle branches. EMS 12-Lead *** Katherine Howell, the Australian paramedic turned thriller writer, recently had her books reviewed on EMSResponder.com She also recently won the award […]
As I mentioned in a recent post, we have a process for instituting a STEMI alert to, in consultation with an ED doctor, activate the cath lab prehospitally based on clinical assessment and a 12-Lead ECG. The coordinator at the hospital that I transport most of my patients to told me so far EMS is […]
I did another nursing home code this weekend. We have five nursing homes in our town. Two are very nice and are the final stop in larger retirement communities where residents start off in the own cottages or apartments, move to their own rooms and then go to skilled care before they pass on. The […]
What follows first is fiction: “482. Lawrence Street. 2nd Floor, unknown on a one. PD on the way. Advise when you get there.” We were around the corner having just cleared Hartford Hospital. “Shouldn’t we wait for the cops?” I said, as Troy grabbed his house bag and monitor from the side door. “No, it’s […]