Written a while ago and saved for later publication: A recent past episode of the EMS Garage (“BLS Care Is Not Dead”) they talked about a question debated since the creation: BLS v ALS.
Mar 6, 2010
We were discussing possible causes for sycope in paediatric patients: NA: Could be cardiac. Maybe a congenital heart defect? Lecturer: Yes, very good. Let’s define that word for anyone who doesn’t know it.
Mar 2, 2010
In my feeble attempts to make myself more valuable, I went ahead and got an AHA Instructor certification. Yes, I am a CPR instructor but have never had a chance to do CPR on a real patient.
Jan 24, 2010
I’m responding to a sports injury, paged as a broken arm. Upon arrival we quickly triangulate the patient’s location from the screams. I assume patient care. The probie who would normally be interfacing with the patient has a sort of glassy look that says.
Jan 16, 2010
… but napping is keeping it on life support. As a university student, EMT, and someone who has worked in technical theatre professionally for almost 10 years, I am intimately familiar with exhaustion and sleep deprivation.
Jan 3, 2010
Last night I went to an annual Christmas after-party at a close friend’s house. He’s graduating from vet school this year, so naturally our conversation turned to medicine. I was particularly interested in comparing the emergency care of animals and humans.
Dec 28, 2009
Tones drop for a male with a bleeding disorder that cut his finger. Band-aid brigade to the rescue! We arrive to find our patient loosely holding a paper towel over the injury.
Dec 28, 2009
Ever wish you could visit the cadaver lab in your spare minutes between classes? Or even during a boring class (cough dramatic literature cough). There’s an app for that.Short-partner told me about an iPhone app a long while ago that sounded pretty cool… but because I was frequently dropped on my head as a child, I never got around to looking it up.
Dec 19, 2009
Part of the reason I did so well in anatomy was because I developed a deep love for the human body and the beauty of it’s construction. It goes along with the whole “nerd” persona.
Dec 19, 2009
Tones drop. EMS respond on a mid 20’s male having an asthma attack. Patient does not have their inhaler. First though: This could be lejit. Second though: But probably not. Off to the scene we scream in the gutless wonder.
Dec 19, 2009