Solu-medrol doesn’t reach its peak effect for 6-12 hours after we give it, but that studies have shown the earlier it is given, the less likely the patient will have to be admitted to the hospital.
I rate it above calcium partly because it links me more closely with Johnny and Roy, and more importantly because it can be used for tricycliate overdose, and for crush injuries (I have never used it for these indications).
I don’t use calcium very much, but there is one situation I always reach for it in — cardiac arrest in a diaylsis patient. While we don’t have labs in the field, a dialysis patient is a possible bet to be hypocalcemic and/or hyperkalemic, and calcium can save lives if they are.
When Fentanyl arrives in my kit, it will likely be ranked quite high on my list and push Toradol down even further, possibly to the point where we will have no need to carry it.
I am speaking only of the Tylenol in my kit and not my own personal stash. If I were rating my own personal stash of Tylenol, then I would have to add Tylenol and Ibuprofen to my as yet unrevealed list of Eight Essential Drugs, making it The Essential Ten.
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Emily Second Wave? It's so terrifying! I hope we all get over this!
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Ray Collins Help is Always Right I was inducted into street work in the late 80s by a Catholic Worker whose brother was an addict. He died on the street here in Austin in the mid-90s and that's where she got her bias against giving money, which she inculcated into me. My policy still to this day, but you have given…
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