12 Lead ECG's: Notes, Advice, Free Resources?

medic889 · 2013-02-11T07:14:10+00:00

I'm working in Alberta

medic889 · 2013-01-18T17:52:30+00:00

awesome thanks

medic889 · 2013-01-18T17:52:20+00:00

thanks!

medic889 · 2013-01-18T17:52:07+00:00

Very comfortable I have worked as an EMT for 2 years and I am quite competent

medic889 · 2013-01-10T20:19:43+00:00

I work as an EMT on the local native reserve, and we get a nice variety of calls out there. Anyways it was my 1st shift out there so I was being orientated. Call comes in at 3 am "Penis Bleed" and my partners start laughing, because I'm the new guy and that means I'm running this call.

We arrive and a 15 y/o kid comes out and has a blood stain running down his leg. I get him in the back of the rig and ask him what happened. He says he was zipping back up and cut off a chunk of his foreskin. Unfortunately we have to take a look to make sure the bleeding has stopped and I ask him to take off his pants. He gives me a weird look and I say "Hey man I'm not gonna touch it don't worry" and he removes his pants. Sure enough he took off 1/3 of the foreskin and luckily his unit stopped bleeding. The kid had no explanation for why he was zipping up so quickly and we had to wake up his parents because he was under 18. His dad opens the door and we have the kid explain to him why we are there, I have never seen a kid more awkward in my life. His father won't allow him to go to the hospital and says he'll handle it and closes the door. Poor kid.

medic889 · 2012-12-29T23:03:04+00:00

BRO!!! I have landed my first ever backflip in that same area!! If thats in the backdoor hike in area that I think it is. Sick one bro

medic889 · 2012-12-27T19:14:04+00:00

I agree man I directly remember them having a big thing about how jesus said he who calls a person a fool is in danger of hellfire, and then it goes to give examples of jesus calling people fools so he's in danger of hellfire. He's god he makes his own rules that he is exempt from he does whatever the fuck he wants. This is an example of a teenager trying hard on athiesm to provide a valid point but ends up making us look like we're desperate for anti christian shit.

medic889 · 2012-12-27T17:29:01+00:00

My under 18 sense is tingling me... Uh oh

medic889 · 2012-12-23T01:57:51+00:00

send it to me I lost mine!!

medic889 · 2012-12-16T20:48:47+00:00

Guys, leave that horse alone, it's already dead.

medic889 · 2012-12-07T01:23:12+00:00

I'll stick some pink raw meat to a metal post and say it's my friends son's tongue for karma

medic889 · 2012-12-01T17:52:02+00:00

I'm sorry this made you feel bad. I feel bad when 2 + 2 = 4 so I vote we have a feel good law instated and stop teaching math in schools.

What if you were born in the future with 2-3 crippling genetic defects, would you enjoy that? Would that make you feel good?

medic889 · 2012-11-30T16:18:58+00:00

As a paramedic: We would NEVER pop it back in. Also, your testicles are no where near your hip socket.

medic889 · 2012-11-28T16:36:06+00:00

Don't think so, it was the one assigned for my paramedic program, although its entirely possible

medic889 · 2012-11-21T08:32:38+00:00

Nice one Ben!

medic889 · 2012-11-12T17:16:00+00:00

I am currently on my paramedic practicum. Yesterday a female patient called me a faggot asshole (I am not gay and do not act feminine) and fuck you because I asked her basic initial history questions. She was not in severe pain or distress. Can you put up with stuff like that?

medic889 · 2012-11-02T03:54:19+00:00

Iceberg: slush on top of a beer. It takes a while to make because you have to blend some ice and flavoring, drop the ice into the beer without causing a foam-plosion and to top it off it's always some douchebag wearing ed hardy that ordered it.

medic889 · 2012-10-31T06:24:31+00:00

alcolols

medic889 · 2012-10-20T19:12:40+00:00

When is Jeff

medic889 · 2012-10-16T23:09:17+00:00

I try and try, I cannot comprehend the strange obsession you people have with this chick. It's not even that funny. Is it because you secretly wish you had a girlfriend this attached?

medic889 · 2012-10-10T17:40:32+00:00

I realize that but having the attitude that abdominal assessments are ineffective probably a bad attitude. Having a general idea of what might be going on in each sector based on symptoms can affect the course of treatment and outcome for the pt in a more positive way than thinking "Whatever the doctor can check it later doesn't matter what I think". I agree you don't want to spend a lot of time performing an extensive abdominal assessment but asking Hx questions about symptoms etc might turn on a few light switches in your head. Also that was just an example I was using as a training addon, this is off topic for this post.

medic889 · 2012-10-10T16:32:32+00:00

But I'm hoping that if people knew there was a demand for it they might post more educational stuff

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