Excellent basic rundown of EMT procedures when working a scene:
http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~akshay.shah/ems/notes/notes2.html
notice, all ye from NCNM, that on this page a normal oriented person is A&O x4
ONLY at NCNM is normal x3. =-/
( review notes swiped from another student, somewhat updated, I know this material better than the teacher and have improved on his notes in places )

I just read the story of the blowup of the Deepwater Horizon, and in my mind's eye I just see people jumping from a height. The same feeling comes to me that I had in the summer following 9/11, a pit of the stomach anger and despair. The people who against orders ran down the stairs from the twin towers were the ones who lived. The rules on that ( Read more... )

There's a cynic in me that rears higher when I hear a report about "SOS" signs showing up along the roads in Haiti. The closer to the airport the signs are, the more likely they are to be scams. With loaded humanitarians pouring in, everybody will be trying to get in on the do-gooding action. And it is so much easier to do-good if you have ( Read more... )

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Seems likely at this point that the majority of fall illness is just people over-reacting to common colds. Funny how fear-mongering can plant the seeds of social collapse. CBS broke the story earlier this week. The CBC has admitted that the numbers are far lower than what is being reported in the media.

Here's the CBS report:


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An excellent writeup of acute abdomen in elders ( Read more... )

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( The prognosis is best if they're young and poisoned. )