Posts Categorized: Cpr
“CPR Theatre” – Pediatric Deaths, resuscitations, and futility
This post is a cooperative joint topic with two widely respected EMS bloggers, Steve Whitehead from Http://www.TheEMTspot.com and Greg Friese, from Http://www.EveryDayEMStips.com – Our topic is supposed to be on why it is that EMTs, Paramedics, and oth…
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Guest Post – An Open Letter to Wisconsin Physicians Concerning Do-Not-Resucitate Orders
Do-Not-Resuscitate, or DNR orders, can be wonderful tools. However, physicians must provide the proper input and patient education in order to prevent tragic consequences - This is an open letter to Wisconsin Physicians written by a long-time paramedic.
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Cardiocerebral Resuscitation – Change brings Fantastic results
Some more information on the amazing, revolutionary procedure that is Cardiocerebral resuscitation. Be prepared here, folks. This stuff will blow your mind.
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Advances in Resuscitation – CCR If you’re not doing it now, you will be
New advances in the fight agains Sudden Cardiac Arrest - There's some exciting results here. We seem to be getting a fighting chance.
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MCMAID Resuscitation Protocol
This is a new cardiac arrest protocol currently in use which is showing great success - This is a supplemental post to "Advances in Resuscitation - CCR, if you're not doing it you will be"
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Daily Training Topics 10/16/09
Daily EMS Training Topics from 10/16/09 - A link to a great article on IV placement and some quick BLS Airway skills refreshment. Can you find the hidden video?
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Could it be? A Good EMT-B Student?
EMS Students these days... What's with you? Was I like that? Probably. Here's a kid I had lately that I think's gonna be alright.
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The Medics are Revolting
Welcome to my new blog. Allow me to head off on a rant here, no use pulling any punches. EMS Needs some changin'. Here's how we're going to do it. Hint: It's together
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Ckemtp is now on Twitter and Facebook!
So I've finally joined the final frontier or something like that. After much prodding, teasing, cajoling, and downright coersion, Ckemtp has joined Facebook and Twitter.I'm Ckemtp on facebook and, coincidentally, @Ckemtp on Twitter (I think).At any rate,…
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Paying My Pennance
Ouch.
Today I begin what I am sure to be a long, arduous process of atoning for my every IV sin. Out of the tens of thousands of patients I’ve treated, I’ve gained intraveinous access thousands of times. Probably I’ve missed a thousand or two …
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Two blogs that I found in this long week that are just awesome
This is a light week for me, or at least a 7 day period. Yesterday I worked a 12, today a 24, tomorrow a 12, the next day a 24. Then I have a day off, then a 24 then a 12. So by my count, since Saturday and until Friday I'll have worked 108 hou…
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Soapy Demons – Ckemtp is a geek
Ok, so this post really proves just how much of a geek I really am. Just bear with me for a bit.
This subject causes me a lot of personal grief. I know that it probably shouldn’t and that I am indeed a geek for worrying about this issue because seem…
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Simple actions can save lives
Its not very often you get 'someone back' from the brink of death, but this was one of those rare days!
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If I wasn't so busy running calls today…
I would get a post up about EMS Ethics and patient advocacy involving a scenario for y'all...I would get more done on my new upcoming site that's going live (probably) early next week: http://www.lifeunderthelights.com/I would write a response to an…
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Beware the man with the camera!!
There have been some interesting posts pop up on some of the blogs I read during the last 24hrs. It appears to have started over at Statter 911, where a post was put up describing a video that is now doing the rounds on YouTube, showing a Fire Fighter/EM…
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A first hand perspective of Swine Flu!
A look back at my first 4 days of having the dreaded swine flu, and how it may change my attitude towards fellow sufferers who have called 999.
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Another bench mark passed!
Well chaps and chapesses, Swine flu or not, Ive missed a bit of a milestone yesterday and just wanted to say thanks!
100,000 hits since January this year!
Thats pretty mindblowing, and I am glad I reached it before I have to reset everything for the mo…
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Told you it wasnt Man Flu!
Two words....
Oink....oink!
I have a sudden increased empathy for all of the swine flu patients I have seen over the last few months.
Oh well, better now than in 4 weeks!!
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On the sick bed again!!
The video says it better than I could.
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Im sure you have seen it before but its worth a giggle anyway.
This isnt like me of course, I have real flu not man flu - honest!!!
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Supporting each other
Being part of the EMS family and being married to another paramedic from another station, you hear alot about what goes on in the service. Usually its just idle gossip and some interesting stories, but sometimes (rarely) you here about something that mak…
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Changes are coming!
I, like some other bloggers in the EMS blogging community, have taken up an invite to be part of a new blogging network dedicated to EMS (ambulance services) and Fire Fighting.
At its most basic level, this isnt going to change anything about this blog …
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The Americans have got it right!
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Don't worry, this isn't about health care reform or the argument between socialised and private healthcare!
One of the truly beneficial and u…
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A New Entry to the Blog Roll
After a comment to my last post, I have now found another great blog to read.
Angry Tech is another EMS blog, this time by a UK student Paramedic.
Apart from it being one of the best looking blogs I have come across (it certainly puts mine to shame), A…
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My First…
I can still smell the freshly cut grass baking in the summer sun and feel the breeze chasing leaves through the trees. Just one thought brings me back there to that time, to that place. My life forever changed as another life ended and I tried in vain to…
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The EMS Blogosphere, saving lives and our profession
I've been struggling trying to come up with a proper post for this month's edition of "The Handover" Blog carnival. The theme, this month, is "Communication" and since communication is so essential to EMS, I've been starting and stopping posts as my ADD …
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