The bottom line is this physician has come up with an interesting and bias-free pain management protocol. You apply the same protocol to anyone in acute pain. Young, old, black, white, male, female, rich, poor.
29 diagnoses including dementia, labored breathing, gurgley rhonchi throughout, Diaphoretic, temp of 104.1, Doesn’t fit on stretcher, keeps falling to the side, Yankeur suctioning thick brown sputum.
Simon Rescue Breaths or Compressions in Overdose? The one plan guideline is too simplistic. By definition od has a hypoxic etiology and therefore vents are indicated but the issue for me is that cpr of bls trained people are not actually "trained" ventilation practitioners and shouldn't be considered qualified in suspected ohca to safely deliver them.
2018-04-25 10:26:25
David Clark Follow Up I'm a fire guy, EMT etc. One of the things that stick in my mind is that when the guru's decided to make the narcan available to the masses, someone didn't think this through. In 44 years, I have seen a share of problems, but knee-jerk issues of a good thing can often turn out…
2018-04-12 21:32:26
Patricia INSIDE LOOK AT LIFE AS AN EMT Great post, I'm waiting for more such, I was very interested :)
2018-04-10 09:34:32
Meggie Undetermined Very useful entry, as always, I really like coming back to your blog :)
2018-04-08 10:30:47
Mike INSIDE LOOK AT LIFE AS AN EMT Hey Peter, I just wanted to say I agree with you. I'm a rural EMT as well and I've read Paramedic and Resc. 471, as well as a lot of this blog, and I've never felt that you ignore or put down BLS providers. I guess different people read things in different ways. Either way,…
2018-04-08 02:14:55