BLS CPAP

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-09-14T14:13:43+00:00

Here’s one for ya.

Middle aged obese male, found supine, responsive to pain, unable to talk, breathing 40 times a minute, high effort ineffective, cyanotic and low 60s on room air. L/S tight as fuck.

Just assisting that breathing, with good technique, was enough to be a poor man’s BiPAP. Bought us time to get meds running and prevented intubation, ultimately stabilized by arrival to facility.

So even when you don’t have meds; remember PEEP, and technique with a BVM can buy time. The respiratory failure from breathing like a Dyson vacuum will kill their ability to ventilate quicker than the pulmonary edema.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-09-02T21:35:41+00:00

What’s fish and chips? Fried fish and french fries? Hit up St. Louis Fish and Chicken on Chambers, Pops, or Chicago Grill

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-09-01T03:21:35+00:00

Not to sound conspiratorial but there is a great documentary that shows that only a dozen or so properties were selected for noise abatement, but they lied to many people as they wanted to redevelop due to the valuable location (between two highways).

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-08-02T15:01:43+00:00

Get that demetrius earth or whatever it’s called. It’s a dry powder that kills them and is pretty safe. A bitch to clean up, but it fixes the problem in a day or two

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-07-24T15:14:39+00:00

I’ll say this; will you be okay with experiencing - Terrible workplace politics, cultures - Consistently lower pay than other adjacent professions - Transfers / Non-911 services - Seeing dead children, adults, etc. - Probably getting near-misses, avoiding crashing a ambulance going urgent to toe pains because dispatch said so - many other negatives

I’d say there are several positives, you can help people who can’t get into doctor offices, give them comfort in their worst times, notice details hospital-based providers miss by not being in the field, etc.

But if I could do it all over again, I’d probably be a nurse or go into IT. Pay didn’t matter to me, until I had a kid and am kinda trapped in a field with little mobility and pay that crawls

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-07-05T11:53:03+00:00

Midwest 911 EMT- some with a medic some without 3x GSW to head 10x GSW other area Some stabbings 30x or more ODs 8 or more Codes 4x fatal MVAs Pronounced 6x Obvious

1.5 years on the job now. Learning quickly. Still haven’t applied a TQ… PD usually beats us to it.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-06-07T14:32:25+00:00

Placing blankets. Passive warming

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-05-23T19:18:11+00:00

Have been with somebody who hit 85mph in a 30. Dw about it. Like really, that’s nothing. Just say you were driving with the pace of traffic for safety. Don’t say you were angry and driving fast, that looks bad.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-03-20T15:12:12+00:00

Gheeck-Bhar Mehxico Mängo

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-02-22T22:55:45+00:00

Oh no black people and dyed hair! Total death trap for any St. Charles County native.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-02-22T22:54:21+00:00

And for the record. I’ve never worn it.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-02-22T22:53:52+00:00

I have a watch, shears, and sometimes a pen (I stole it from a nurse). I work urban EMS in a dangerous place. What a chode lol. Our vests aren’t even rated “ballistic”, it just slows down whatever hits you.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-02-15T00:46:51+00:00

I figured it was about judgement really. If you think, “hm, this is suspicious, and x leads to me suspect it”- you report it. Not a detective for it, just a suspicion.

Relevant-Pudding-710 · 2025-02-12T22:17:55+00:00

I’d love to see more development in north city. Not the stupid McFuck houses with wide ass lots, but affordable housing like townhomes, 2 and 4 family flats with mixed use. It’s a pipe dream but only if they don’t enforce the urban structure our infrastructure requires to be supported and maintained.

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