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- Feed Preview Paramedic – Streetwatch: Notes of a Paramedic
Back In The City
I had not worked a city shift in nearly three years since I took my second job as an EMS coordinator. I forgot how much I loved it. I feel like I am back to my roots.
Splinting
Perhaps if I had done what as a new EMT so many years ago I had done, the patient would have been more comfortable. Now, I am not saying take away my morphine and Fentanyl and just give me a pile...
Second District
It is interesting seeing the streets you spent so many years working on the subject of film. Hartford is a small city, but like its sister cities New Haven and Bridgeport, it has always had one o...
Called In Sick
If I feel like death, like I will never be well again, but I am well hydrated and my pulse is only 72, and my sat is 99%, and my fever barely a 100, what must it feel like to be really sick?
Katherine Ann
Down the corridor Jason straddles the gurney, thumbs on her sternum.
Let's Go to the Tape
If we can use digital cameras to capture pictures of crashed cars to show the trauma team, can we use video cameras to record our patients' "seizures'' for later rebroadcast -- not on You Tube, b...
The Essential Eight
We have reached the Essential Eight -- eights drugs that I am not going on the road without.
Aspirin
Now Aspirin use has become so prominent that many of my patients have already taken Aspirin before I get there -- either they took it themselves, were given it by a friend or coworker or a medica...
Atropine
The best bradycardia calls are for the patient passed out in the bathroom. You find them on the floor, cold and clammy, no pressure, pulse in the 20's. We used to give a full amp of Atropine, now...
Dopamine
We don't carry med pumps so the drip is pretty much of an eyeball, and then titrate to blood pressure. When the pressure bottoms, you bump it up. You get a pressure above 90, you ease it down.