Posts Categorized: Dnr
Two Cases, One letter – From one Paramedic’s struggles, change can come
A letter I got from a fellow Paramedic has caused me to write a long tyrade on the state of EMS. This post will make you mad. It will challenge you and challenge our profession. You will probably see yourself in the words this Paramedic wrote to me. We Need Change.
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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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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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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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The DNT Order??
Tonight I would like to take a few moments to hit on what is one of my top-ten all-time use-a-lot-of-dashes-in-between pet-peeves in EMS and probably in health care in general. It's the "DNT" or "Do not Treat" order. It might just as well be called the "…
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