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Transcutaneous Pacing: Part I

EMS 12-Lead

The patient is re-assessed once secured in the ambulance. The paramedics begin CPR. CPR is performed with manual compressions as no mechanical CPR device is available. Two paramedics are in the rear of the ambulance managing resuscitation (another crew had arrived and provided support with a driver). Current 85mA.

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Transcutaneous Pacing: Part 2

EMS 12-Lead

In this call, paramedics arrived on scene to find a patient apneic and pulseless with CPR in progress by first responders (AED had an unknown unshockable rhythm). Patient had an unwitnessed cardiac arrest without bystander CPR performed. The crew transferred the patient to the ambulance and noticed weak radial pulses (BP unobtainable).

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Lab case 398

EMergucate

75 year old man was brought to ED by ambulance in VF cardiac arrest , CPR in progress. His venous blood gases showed the following PH = 7.14 pCO2 = 53 mmHg

CPR 100
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What Can You Do as an EMT?

Chicago EMT Training

Private ambulance companies Most private ambulance companies are always hiring. Positions at ambulance companies tend to be a little more flexible especially for those with other jobs or are in school. Duties include but are not limited to stocking, cleaning, transporting patients, performing EKGs, blood draws, and CPR.

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Dr. Elsburgh Clarke Was Among First to Specialize in Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

I was about two months into a family practice internship when I went to visit my uncle whose neighbor happened to be an ED resident, Dr. Clarke said. Firsthand Account An ambulance bay at the LA County-USC Hospital in 1978. A cross-country move brought him to Delaware, where he served as the director of a hospital ED in Milford, Del.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A 12-year-old male is being transported by ambulance after a road traffic accident. A retrospective cohort analysis of the ED portion of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 2006 to 2009 in the US revealed that less than one-half of patients undergoing ETI in the ED received sedative drugs while in the ED.

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Free 50 Question NREMT – Basic Practice Exam

EMT Training Station

A) Start CPR, you cant use an AED on a wet patient. B) Expose the patients chest, dry off the chest, apply AED, start CPR. C) Make sure the scene is safe, expose the patients chest, dry with a towel, start CPR while your partner applies the AED D) Expose the patients chest, apply AED, Start CPR. What do you do?

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