Saturday, July 7, 2012

Prehospital Abdominal Assessment Part 3

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In Prehospital Abdominal Assessment Part 3 we are going to take a good look at the lower left quadrant.  The two conditions we are going to ...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Prehospital Abdominal Assessment Part 2

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     Continuing the prehospital obdominal assessment we will look at the right lower quadrant.  In this area we are going to talk about the ...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Coo Coo Bird? A Practical Prehospital Psychiatric Assessment

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Psychiatric emergencies can be one of the most dangerous and challenging emergencies that prehospital providers can encounter. Our trainin...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Prehospital Abdominal Assessment Part 1

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     Prehospital education has classically fallen very short when it comes to an abdominal assessment.  Check all four quadrants for tender...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

DCHEATR Method of patient reporting.

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I developed this method of writing patient reporting years ago after I was tired of SOAPing and all the other mnemonic methods that didn...

If you could only give one piece of advice about being a good EMT or medic what would it be?

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I recently asked this question on Facebook and the responses I received are worthy of mentioning in this forum. Here are the comments witho...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

So you want to be a paramedic?

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The first step you need to take in order to be a good paramedic is to simply get in the game. I am a firm believer that a paramedic card d...