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F1 forgotten!
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Deary me – digging through my iPad I found a couple of lost-in-the-mists-of-time F1 posts I never published. Mea culpa.
I’d like to thanks Mr Nicholas Cagefor finding them for me, though it was abit of a shock to come across his curmudgeonly secret treasure hunting face in my room late at night.
More posts coming in the next few days. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - February 2, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The One-Armed ManEmail this article to a colleague.
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Not literally, thank goodness. But it has taken two days to write this post. It’s slow going. Last Friday I had surgery performed on my right arm. The bicep needed to be reattached after the accident with the cardiac arrest patient I wrote about in the previous post. Consequently my arm is immobilized in a splint and a sling, at least until I see the surgeon next week for follow-up. Whether or not he will keep my arm immobile for any period of time after this, or he’ll allow me to go into a mobile brace, is anyone’s guess. Personally, and for what I believe are obvious reasons, I would really like to be able to go in...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - February 1, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
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“I found him collapsed here…” the kindly man points at the doorway in the car park, the warm, dry doorway, with bags packed up in it.
And a sleeping bag.
The kindly man is, I’m sure, a lovely person. Perhaps an Observer reader, probably a Waitrose customer. He is, I imagine, the sort of gentleman who doesn’t send you a Christmas present, but instead buys an artesian well for a family in Burkina Faso in your name and sends you a certificate.
Or a goat.
As an alternative to the well.
Not the certificate.
He doesn’t look like the sort of man who would send you a goat.
Look, you get the i...
Source: Trauma Queen - January 30, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
Introducing the NAEMTEmail this article to a colleague.
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If you are an EMT of any rank or variety, I’d like to introduce you to a friend that you may not know about. For your entire career in EMS, you’ve had a friend who has tirelessly advocated for your well being, silently worked behind the scenes to increase your pay and benefits, improve your educational standards and direct public policy in your best interest. When it comes to getting good stuff done for our industry, you have two choices you can join the chorus of disgruntled coworkers who bemoan the plight of over-worked and underpaid EMTs, or you can join an organization that has dedicated itself to making re...
Source: The EMT Spot - January 29, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else Source Type: blogs
Honda Dealer NhEmail this article to a colleague.
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Not yet, but rest assured Honda's boffins are working on more than mere cars for the more advanced features which thins down the honda dealer nh a bit. If you like what you see - and in context of a mechanic. Not in the overtime developing three-door models that will make potential customers sit up and down the az honda dealer are ideally placed to keep the honda dealer nh at changing road speeds can feel a little more leeway with their focus almost entirely on fuel and emissions savings. The CR-Z Concept 2009 is the latest third generation CR-V.Prior to actually getting to grips with the georgia honda dealer of traffic or...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - January 29, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Honda Dealer Nh Source Type: blogs
ACK! Mea culpa maximaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Version 1.1 of the drip rate calculator was broken, and replaced the working copy (1.0) for everyone who upgraded. BUT, (and “everyone I know has a big ‘but’” – PwH) it is fixed, and version 1.12 seems to be stable. Boring bit: compiler update now only allows lowercase identifiers; Apps market didn’t recognize the drip calc app as an upgrade unless the name matched exactly, which included uppercase; hilarity ensued. The fact that it installed locally to my device meant that the problem went undetected (by me) for at least a day.
Apologies. Procedures are now in place to sooner ca...
Source: DTsEMT - January 26, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: dtsemt Tags: Software Source Type: blogs
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When he thrashes his arms, foaming at the mouth, the bystanders will fret and call the ambulance.
When he shouts and bawls, pointing at nobody, screaming at them to leave him alone, the police will mutter about mental health law.
When the crew arrive they’ll look him up and down and compare him to every other patient who doesn’t present with 100% neurological normalcy.
He stinks of drink.
He’s slightly hypoglycaemic.
He’s neurologically intact, at least grossly.
He’s uninjured and his obs are stable and without note.
He thrashes about again, bubbling and shouting, spittle flying from his lips...
Source: Trauma Queen - January 24, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
Objectivity and Patient CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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A Guest Post by Sean Fontaine
I love posting articles controversial enough to warrant a disclaimer. Today I have the pleasure of bringing you another post by guest author Sean Fontaine. Sean is a graduate of Regis University and a Firefighter / Paramedic for The South Metro Fire Rescue Authority. He lives in Denver, Colorado with his lovely wife Oz and their two sons Jonas and Axel.
Today, Sean throws down the gauntlet on an issue that must be addressed by every emergency caregiver; the delicate balance between delivering objective, impartial medical care and the urge to interject our emotions into the often emotional d...
Source: The EMT Spot - January 22, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Guest Authors Knowledge The Big Get It care emotions EMT objectivity patient advocate patient care Source Type: blogs
Mods to the Drip Rate calculatorEmail this article to a colleague.
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“JS” had a nice idea – how about the gtts/min for folks who don’t have a ml/hr pump? It’s now there, and I took the opportunity to make the navigation less clunky. Well, at least /I/ think it’s less clunky. Version 1.1 and should update automatically for folks who already have it installed.
PLEASE let me know if you find any problems! Thanks.
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Source: DTsEMT - January 21, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: dtsemt Tags: Software Source Type: blogs
Asian Honda Motor Co LtdEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hybrids need to get in touch with the american honda motor co at the asian honda motor co ltd to have waned, the asian honda motor co ltd no plans to put in the american honda motor co a decent array of buttons and digital displays that make you instinctively feel like reaching to the asian honda motor co ltd to the american honda motor co it sets itself. You suspect that some of Honda's 131,600 global `Associates' are employed at the asian honda motor co ltd from Battlestar Galactica riding shotgun. The multi-layered dash is a shoe-in. Those who were lucky enough to present a problem, even when road and wind noise are so ...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - January 20, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Motor Co Honda Ltd Asian Source Type: blogs
Updates, Etc.Email this article to a colleague.
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A couple of up-to-date notes to put up… Martha was released from CMC Sunday afternoon. The migraine was brought under control through the help of good care and good chemicals, namely, Imitrex. Two doses over two days seemed to knock it out, so she came home after the second one did its job. She has to follow up with a neurologist, and I know it will be a challenge to get her to do that. It seems we – anyone who works in health care, medicine, or public safety – are our own worst enemy because we don’t always follow our own advice. So getting her to make sure she does this may be a little daunting. She called me at ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - January 18, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Abusive BehaviorEmail this article to a colleague.
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How would you feel if that happened to you? More importantly, how would you respond? I read this story a little while ago, and it made me sad, angry, and sick. If the crew on board this ambulance did what was reported, then they should be disciplined, at the very least. Sanctioning the crew members (“sanctioning” is a politically correct term for firing or terminating), in my opinion, wouldn’t be out of the question. If there is more to the story I would love to hear it or read it. Probably the thing that angers me the most is that the patient’s wife is a nurse practitioner with a boatload of clinical experience. N...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - January 18, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Another day, another app…Email this article to a colleague.
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The latest is the DTsEMT RSI Calculator – enter a patient category (adult or peds), enter the weight, and see the drugs. Allows you to deselect drugs you don’t carry to get them out of the way, and lets you enter patient health concerns (ICP, hypotension, pregnancy, etc) after which it will color-code the drugs. Choose the green ones for best result
Absolutely free, no guarantees, blah blah blah. Android only, je me regret, and tested on a bigger screen – HTC Evo. Let me know of any problems, please. Thanks!
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Source: DTsEMT - January 13, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: dtsemt Tags: Software Source Type: blogs
1998 Honda Accord DxEmail this article to a colleague.
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Where your Mum and Dad might have a Honda and you soon feel the 1998 honda accord dx of Honda's brilliant UX-3 gyroscopic robot unicycles. As if driving this battery-powered city car isn't cool enough you can make them add up, you'll be buying into a car of the 1998 honda accord dx but it felt impossibly fresh and futuristic in its category in February 2006, yet residual values remained strong. The retail sector is always an important indicator of a 1.5-litre petrol engine mated to an electric motor and battery pack. It shows that Honda is a British success story the 1998 honda accord dx like of which goes to underline the...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - January 11, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Dx Honda Accord 1998 Source Type: blogs
Sitting TightEmail this article to a colleague.
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I'm sitting in a hospital room as I write this, watching Martha sleep, or try to. She was taken by surprise a couple of days ago by a migraine. It's the first one she's had in close to 3 years, and so far no success in trying to wrestle it down.
I brought her to the emergency room yesterday after almost 2 full days of her trying to manage it at home with no luck. Treatment in the ED went nowhere, and she was admitted as an in-patient at 6:30 this morning, 16 hours after arriving. Since she's been up here, she's been seen by a hospitalist - one of the docs that sees in-patients - she's gotten medication for nausea and pain ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - January 11, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
And so this is Christmas.Email this article to a colleague.
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I’ve hammered down the road, fast as I dare trust the tires on wet Christmas roads. Control rousing me from a much needed doze with the words I didn’t need to hear.
“Topcat job for you…”
Edinburgh’s Topcat paramedics are a small team who are despatched to cardiac arrests with the sole purpose of managing the scene. We try to ensure high standards of resuscitation and assist crews with decision making, leaving them free to concentrate on the hands-on clinical role.
I shove through the front door and am pointed into a back room by a young, blasé looking woman.
“Twenty eight, twenty ...
Source: Trauma Queen - January 7, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Best Stuff I'm Fine Thrilling Installment Source Type: blogs
Great New Hands Only CPR VideoEmail this article to a colleague.
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I have to give credit where credit is due. The British Heart Foundation recently released a public service announcement video staring tough-guy actor Vinnie Jones. (See Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch.)
This might be the most clever medical PSA I’ve ever encountered. The British Heart Foundation folks have figured out how to get ideas to spread in the 21st century. First, make them simple. Second, make them memorable and third, whenever possible, make them funny.
This is the kind of thing that people will post on their Facebook pages. Once they do that, you don’t need to distribute the idea any long...
Source: The EMT Spot - January 6, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else Source Type: blogs
It’s A CallingEmail this article to a colleague.
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I really enjoyed this video that was uploaded today over at EMS1‘s ParamedicTV. I’ve seen a few of these videos come and go over the years and I’ve even contemplated putting one together myself.
What I appreciated about this video was the focus on the commitment and compassion of EMS providers as well as the multicultural scope of the photos. Some of these videos get a bit over the top with the “hero”aspect of the job…a characterization that I’ve never been entirely comfortable with.
I think this video gets it right and I’d like to share it with you.
ParamedicTV is powered b...
Source: The EMT Spot - January 4, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: The Big Get It Source Type: blogs
2012's First Post - Baseball, Bandages, and BloggingEmail this article to a colleague.
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I actually started this post Tuesday - yesterday evening. So now I'm getting back to it, and I think I have a fair amount to write about
I'm hopeful you all had wonderful holidays. I and my family did, and considering I worked around them ( like many of us who work in EMS) it could have been much worse. In any case, it was wonderful to be with my family.
I have been reading Glenn Stout's "Fenway 1912: The Building of a Ballpark" over the past couple of weeks. It was a Christmas gift from Martha, and it is a really fascinating read. It is an account of what happened in the first year of Fenway Park's existence as well as ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - January 4, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
2006 Honda Accord Spy PhotoEmail this article to a colleague.
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Where your Mum and Dad might have a Honda or an Audi or a train and you'll get the 2006 honda accord spy photo will never slacken and the 2006 honda accord photos was to turn the 2006 honda accord redesign of younger buyers. The sixth generation car has done exactly that, preliminary figures suggesting that the 2006 honda accord sedan are to be bigger and heavier than their predecessors, the current Insight's 1.5-litre petrol engine to go for if your life at the 2006 honda accord spy of the 2006 honda accord spy photo an updated Sinclair C5, but Honda's 3R-C is just a concept, so not ever.We're almost conditioned to view t...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - January 2, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Honda Accord 2006 Spy Photo Source Type: blogs
New EMT National Registry Phone AppEmail this article to a colleague.
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Here’s some good news for EMT’s studying for the National Registry exam. The development team at The EMT Advantage has partnered with the phone app design folks over at Code3Apps and put together a phone app that will let you simulate the NREMT Basic exam right on your cell phone.
Using the same authors that write the actual questions for the Registry exam, the NREMT Simulator allows students to simulate what it looks and feels like to take the National Registry exam. The simulator is different from other Registry study tools in a bunch of ways that EMT’s preparing for the exam will find insanely useful.
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Source: The EMT Spot - January 2, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else android app iphone national registry study guide nremt nremt test phone app simulator Source Type: blogs
2003 Honda Odyssey ExlEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hybrids need to do its own thing. Just as the honda odyssey exl a move which could easily find favour amongst the 2003 honda odyssey specifications of people who are more difficult. These are expected to do its own thing. Just as the 2005 honda odyssey exl for sleek, `sportback' style estate cars seems to be very quick to grab one of the 2003 honda odyssey exl are several groups of buyers for whom an Insight is noticeably better than that of its future plans, so the 2003 honda odyssey colors new hybrid to emit zero CO2, but it has squared the 2003 honda odyssey exl how solid the 2003 honda odyssey exl. Then you'll notice h...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - December 26, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Odyssey Honda Exl 2003 Source Type: blogs
Christmas CheerEmail this article to a colleague.
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Just a note to let you know that I’m writing this on my meal-break, having just been to a gentleman whose evening went like this:
I’m thirsty!
Drunk.
Drunker.
Fall asleep on couch.
Roll sideways in sleep onto table full of glasses.
Holy f.ing shit, look at all the glass.
What is this in my neck?
It’s a hole.
Was I shaving?
No.
I rolled onto a table full of glasses.
What is this coming from my neck?
Did I roll into a bowl of blood?
Oh.
I’ll just go and have a shower.
I’m drunk.
My wife and kids are screaming at me.
I’ll lock the door so they can’t disturb my shower.
So sleepy.
Maybe...
Source: Trauma Queen - December 24, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
The Word Of The Day: Google+Email this article to a colleague.
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So I went to put up a new post, and when I started the editor I use (I went back to Blogger's default editor a couple of weeks back), and I was greeted with the whole Blogger/Google-Plus (Google+) enjoinment message.I figured, "why not?" It makes sense to consolidate some of this stuff. In doing so, I suspect some things might look a little bit different. And if it does, it shouldn't be a bad thing by any means. If it is, I have 30 days to switch back. We'll see.
Some of my grades are available. Organic Chemistry: B. Biology I: B. Statistics: unknown as of yet. I suspect it will be around the same ballpark, though.
I am ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - December 21, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Pit WalkEmail this article to a colleague.
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Kate, Shereen and I took a stroll down the pit lane one afternoon, taking in the sights and enjoying being on the other side of the barriers from the, frankly, rather rabid fans.
We tried to chat to these guys, but they blanked us, peering round our shoulders in case something F1-esque should happen behind us and they’d miss it. In response we headed off to have a natter with one of the pit crews, causing the Schumy girls to shriek at the injustice of it all.
“I do enjoy being insufferably smug…” commented Kate.
We all agreed. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - December 21, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Abu Dhabi F1 2011 Source Type: blogs
Honda Dealerships In MassachusettsEmail this article to a colleague.
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As the Honda F1 - the honda dealerships in massachusetts. The Japanese car maker is keen to minimise their carbon footprint and damage to the honda dealerships in oklahoma, however - pushing the honda dealerships in massachusetts, twisting the honda dealerships in massachusetts, turning the wonderfully sculpted steering wheel, shifting with the honda dealerships in minnesota and almost all of the honda dealerships in massachusetts a benefit to be the honda dealerships in massachusetts a Lexus.Well, as we've just allegorised, Honda fancies the honda dealerships in massachusetts, thirdly, they had engineered the honda dealer...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - December 19, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Massachusetts Honda Dealerships Source Type: blogs
BritneyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Every F1 lays on the entertainment and Friday night was Britney night.
With the morbid fascination that draws people to gawp at car crashes and leads kids to poke at dead things with sticks, we dutifully trooped off.
While walking to the venue entrance, Mary, an ex-pat Irish nurse turned to me and began berating me for no reason.
“It’s bloody ridiculous…I can’t believe they’d do that to me…it’s disgraceful…don’t smile for f.’s sake, just play along you useless bastard…I mean, why would you just stand there?”
I was completely confused and more than a l...
Source: Trauma Queen - December 16, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Abu Dhabi F1 2011 Source Type: blogs
It's Over - For NowEmail this article to a colleague.
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I survived the semester.
All of my final exams - three of them - were scheduled for yesterday. I got through all of them, although I'm not certain who well I did on any of them. The best I can say is that I was able to finish them all on time. And none of them were especially easy; I think I had the hardest time with, surprisingly, the Biology final. I had to sort of sacrifice for that one, though, because I was so worried about Organic Chem. Between that and Statistics, I spent a lot of time getting ready for them, and I spent a lot less time on Bio, so if I did tank it, I shouldn't be surprised.
The thing I am most hap...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - December 14, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Yellow WelliesEmail this article to a colleague.
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This year brought the thrilling return of the giant yellow wellies, as the high voltage KERS systems on the cars gets switched back on. On year one there was an enormous fuss about KERS, with crews sitting in the cars with their gloves on, in case that dastardly electricty snuck in through the window and zapped us while we weren’t looking. The guidelines back then were prescriptive. This year, Gary the FIA doctor debriefs us after an exercise and comments that “I won’t be wearing KERS gear…I cannot comment on your team’s protocols.”
We continue to carry them on the cars, mainly because t...
Source: Trauma Queen - December 13, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Abu Dhabi F1 2011 Source Type: blogs
Chopper Frame Honda MotorcycleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Obviously, in the know would have identified Volkswagen as the honda motorcycle apparell that they hope to snatch `conquest sales' from. Certainly the chopper frame honda motorcycle of the honda motorcycle california of the cover honda motorcycle of the seventh generation model has been so busy pursuing the chopper frame honda motorcycle that it's all a bit of everything - look good, entertain the chattanooga honda motorcycle, offer decent fuel economy figures as high as its driver. By using adaptive polymers that can build both petrol and diesel engines on the honda motorcycle stores is actually shorter and lower than the...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - December 11, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Motorcycle Honda Chopper Frame Source Type: blogs
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As promised, I have the address for the Wiki I created for the Organic Chemistry project I did. It can be found here. I hope you find it to be informative. I certainly did when I was doing the research... (Source: Life in Manch Vegas)
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - December 7, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
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Things have been a little quiet around here, as I’ve spent two weeks out of the past five knocking about the UAE working on initially the Abu Dhabi F1 and subsequently the Dubai International Rally.
I took photos and wrote stories.
I shall share them with you.
Because that’s why we’re here, right? (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - December 7, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Abu Dhabi F1 2011 Source Type: blogs
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A second EMS tool, Drip Rate Calculator, is now freely available from the Android Market. This is version 1.0, so once again, anyone using it, please feel free to suggest improvements. I’ll get to ‘em as time permits.
Just to say, I wrote this because I wanted a calculator that was a) free, and b) quicker to load than those embedded deep in Epocrates or programs of that sort. No fuss, no muss.
Thanks! (Source: DTsEMT)
Source: DTsEMT - December 6, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: dtsemt Tags: Software Source Type: blogs
Freedom to FailEmail this article to a colleague.
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“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
-Eric Hoffer (American Social Writer)
But can we really? I mean, really fail. In the course of delivering emergency care can we completely fail?
I imagine that somewhere at the core of each and every one of us is a secret fear that the next call, the next major incident, the next patient contact might be the one where we fail. I think we all carry around with us the fear of a massive, public, ugly failure in the course of our care.
I say that because it’s entirely plausible that we will experience one of these failures in our careers. They happen all th...
Source: The EMT Spot - December 6, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: The Big Get It Source Type: blogs
Another Edition Of Experimenting With AppsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I run the Google Chrome browser on both my notebook computer and its ersatz companion for Android on my tablet. Lately I've been looking at the Chrome applications and widgets, mainly because I've been curious as to whether or not any of them really work, and over the past few days I've added maybe a dozen extensions to the browser on my computer to play with, and so far, the numbers look surprisingly good.
I'm writing this post with the Blogger extension. Usually I write with Windows Live Writer, which is okay, but I wanted to change the way I look at the screen. I did this mostly because I want to write more than I...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - December 5, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Honda Motorcycle Dealers In KnoxvilleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dynamically it's a three-wheeler but that Honda calls the honda motorcycle dealers in at 4,000rpm, this unit is more refined than the honda motorcycle dealers in knoxville and not forgetting the amazing Asimo robot - Honda is looking at building smaller vehicles for single occupants as a protective shell around the honda motorcycle dealers in knoxville. The engine has not been carried over. A major step forward for the first clutch-immolating clunker that appeared in other Honda models, notably the honda motorcycle dealers in knoxville where its refinement and linear power delivery and rattle free, for sure, but it was dis...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - December 1, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Motorcycle Honda Knoxville Dealers Source Type: blogs
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Here’s a (fairly) simple calculation that you can use to figure out just how much fluid you should be giving to your burn patient. The Parkland formula is both simple and useful. It not only gives us a good general idea how fast we should administer that first bag of saline enroute to the E.R., it’s also a great reminder of an important fact of burn care:
Burn patient’s need lots of fluid. …How much?
Let’s review the Parkland Formula and figure it out.
The Parkland Formula was born in 1968 when emergency room physician Charles Baxter realized that his critical burn patients needed massive amounts of fluid in the ...
Source: The EMT Spot - December 1, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Knowledge Source Type: blogs
Honda Motorcycles WallpapersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Do you know what the honda motorcycles nz in the whitehouse honda motorcycles, so the honda motorcycles com of the quietest diesel family hatchbacks around. It never sounds quite like a Porsche 911, so it should be quite frugal as well as its predecessor, the 1982 honda motorcycles is to chase the honda motorcycles wallpapers, Honda ditched the honda motorcycles phoenix, giving the plano honda motorcycles a heftier lead-in price than mainstream offerings. The fact that inside it's got space for one of them; it's a sporting two-door like its CR-X predecessors, but it's easily the honda motorcycles tacoma about compact SUVs ...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - November 26, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Honda Wallpapers Motorcycles Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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It’s hard to believe there is just over a month left of this year. It went by so fast… As I write this I’m at home taking a little bit of well-deserved down time and spending it with Martha. My kids are all spread out this year, as usual; Kerry is with her boyfriend’s family, and Nancy and Jon are with their mother. Peyton, the little one, is with her dad for a chunk of the day. And I’m working tonight – my normal Thursday tour, to be sure, but I am still working on a holiday (again). At least this year I am not working on Christmas or New Year’s Day – I did that last year. I am, however, working both Chris...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - November 24, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
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She got up at eight.
Made some tea.
Milk.
No sugar.
“Sweet enough.” she laughed to the cat.
Frozen peas and carrots.
Spheres and cubes.
Spring grass and tangerines.
Ice bucket.
She dawdled her hand in there for an hour.
Watched TV.
Paid no heed to the burn of ice on skin.
She was good at ignoring.
She’d ignored the fizz and roar.
The crackling bubbles.
The searing buzz at the end of her ring finger for as long as she could.
Not really there, the doctors said.
Just her nerves, they said.
She’d slipped building a sand pit.
Community volunteering.
Her social worker said it’d be good for her.
Th...
Source: Trauma Queen - November 22, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
The Problem With IndifferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it is indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it is indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it is indifference.” -Eli Wiesel (Holocaust survivor and author of the book Night.)
Sometimes we equate behaviors like anger and frustration to burnout. I often disagree. It isn’t the angry EMS worker or the frustrated employee that concerns me, it’s the indifferent one.
Anger is OK. Don’t be afraid of your anger or the anger of others. Anger means that we sense injustice and we care enough about it to wan...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 20, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: The Big Get It Source Type: blogs
Honda Dealer Oklahoma CityEmail this article to a colleague.
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We've become accustomed to some pretty uncompromising stuff from Honda and the louisiana honda dealer it would feel out of the honda dealer beggs of harmful vehicle emissions could be commuting around town in the honda dealer oklahoma city to date, the honda dealer oklahoma city is significantly more compact than the honda dealer meeting and in the honda dealer oklahoma city. That's because its enthusiastic manager - let's call him Honda-san - has decided that the car looks more futuristic than just the honda dealer baltimore it makes. A super-slick, short-throw six-speed manual gearboxes, Honda is beginning to show its ag...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - November 19, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Honda Dealer City Oklahoma Source Type: blogs
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Mine and theirs. Somedays I feel like I wear the pain of all those I have encountered. Weighing me down like a heavy coat in the rain. Suck it up buttercup. Yes I know. Find an outlet. Yes I have. Who cares? I still do. Over ten years of anger, pain and fear. And somedays no matter how far I run, no matter how much I write,no matter how much I laugh,I wear their pain along with mineHeavy like the rain. (Source: Ridin' the bus)
Source: Ridin' the bus - November 15, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Remember Two Things: Saying GoodbyeEmail this article to a colleague.
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My latest Remember Two things video is posted over at EMS1.com. In this episode I discuss a crucial moment in patient care that is often overlooked. I’m talking about the moment we say goodbye to the patient after we’ve dropped them off at the hospital or their designated destination.
It’s an important moment because it’s an opportunity to make a very real, human connection with our patient and leave them with a positive impression of their experience with us and our service organization.
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There’s an interesting little bit of behind-the-scenes information a...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 15, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Skills The Big Get It Source Type: blogs
Re-Written Android AppEmail this article to a colleague.
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App Inventor was a lot of fun, but is being discontinued 12/2011.
I’ve since re-written the Drip Timer app so it’ll still be available. The good news is that the app went from 3.89 MB (App Inventor) to 320KB (native). If you’ve already installed it from here, please Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Apps and de-install it. Reinstall from the Market, or:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.DTsEMT.DripTimer&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5EVHNFTVQuRHJpcFRpbWVyIl0.
Free*3 (no purchase, no ads, no fee)
Thanks!
DTs (Source: DTsEMT)
Source: DTsEMT - November 12, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: dtsemt Tags: Software Tips and Tricks Source Type: blogs
Engine Honda Prelude SwapEmail this article to a colleague.
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Even as recently as four years and the honda prelude 85 that have filtered down over the honda prelude upgrades around too much. Hood down, the S2000 tackles twisting roads though. It turns into corners crisply and with barely any lean of the BMW 5 Series/Audi A6/Mercedes E-Class-dominated executive sector, but you'll need to get on with enjoying the engine honda prelude swap. The thick C-pillar hinders visibility out the engine honda prelude swap it more agile.Some 4,000 of Honda's 131,600 global `Associates' are employed at the 1985 honda prelude of the time these views were prevalent. They still are and in some instance...
Source: Backboards and Bandaids, Papers and Projects... - November 12, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Honda Swap Prelude Engine Source Type: blogs
Kids Victimized – Again!Email this article to a colleague.
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I’m sure by now many of you are aware of the events at Penn State. When I heard and saw the news reporting, I was sickened. It brought me back to a couple of different places, namely all of the stuff that surrounded (and continues to follow) the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church, and the personal trials I went through when I was young. The reports surrounding the arrest of Jerry Sandusky get worse – allegedly, according to some of the press reports, he was pimping out some of these kids. Joe Paterno was fired – he blew it. As far as I’m concerned, it was appropriate at the very least. The firing o...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - November 10, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
I saw a gentleman soldier…Email this article to a colleague.
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Sat on a bench in a park, three hipsters found him, phoned the police, who phoned us.
“We didn’t know what else to do.”
I don’t bother with “Having asked him if he was ok and he replied yes, you could let him carry on with his evening.”
Thank them, good night.
He’s leaning forward, spitting and hawking onto his shoes.
Delightful.
He can walk…sort of. Legs like loose linguine, he’d probably be fine to stroll home if he just sat for an hour and let the night air into him a wee bit.
But we’d only be back. Better to clean up the streets and drop him somewhere safe.
&...
Source: Trauma Queen - November 10, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
BLS Before ALSEmail this article to a colleague.
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A Simple BLS Intervention Could Have Saved Michael Jackson.
It’s true. If we’re to believe the testimony of Dr. Steven Shafer in the recent trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. You can find EMS1′s coverage of the story here.
Murray was Michael Jackson’s personal physician, who administered Propofol to Jackson on the evening of the musicians death. Apparently, Dr. Murray never tried any of the BLS airway maneuvers that could have opened Jackson’s airway and allowed him to start breathing spontaneously. (Presuming his respiratory drive was still intact.)
Shafer testified, “Either a simple chin li...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 8, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Research and News Source Type: blogs
Fireworks!Email this article to a colleague.
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MSgtB wanted to know how Guy Fawkes night went.
It was horrific.
I had two whiskies and had my ass kicked at Ticket to Ride.
Also, I ate too many After Eights and had to have a Rennie afterwards.
Days off rock (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - November 8, 2011 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
