Posts Categorized: Et Intubation
EMS practice
What does Highschool Football Practice have to do with EMS? Does passing a football have anything to do with passing a tube? Maybe it does
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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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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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Dextrocardia?
I took care of a patient today. Poor kid, he had a lot of congenital issues and was noncommunicative and deformed. He was completely bedridden and needed constant care. Poor kid.In treating the condition that he had I put him on an EKG and much to my sur…
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The Profession that is EMS
(Attention: I edited this post heavily. I think that my ADD was in full effect when I wrote it. It's better now, I think)The results are in: the bloggers, posters, commentators, columnists, partners, colleagues, and other people even passively involved i…
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I Got a Day off Today #2
My lovely fiancé (The wedding is May 30th and yes, we're riding in a fire truck from the Church to the Reception) is working the BLS truck at the private ambulance service that she works at. They're busy down there. The service puts up 3 or 4 ALS trucks…
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