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Morbidly Obtuse
The Willy Wagon has some new artwork, thanks to Iain at Sign-On in Newberg, Oregon. For what I considered to be a very reasonable price, he came through with some great artwork.
This is just in time for the annual PPO Convention that I’m attending next week…
This is Sammi. She came to live with us last weekend. So far, so good!
Confuzzed – the sudden onset of total disorientation immediately following being arrested. “Who am I?” ”Where am I?” “What happened?” “Who’s gun is that?” ”Where did THAT come from?”
Welcome to the home of the new EMS Haiku. It was time to simplify, so here we are. Get comfy & settle in.
I hate PayPal.
That’s how I pay for this blog (EMShaiku.blog-city). I have had repeated issues with them cancelling my subscription, resulting in (so far) brief interruptions in this blog being available on-line.
This week, they cancelled my subscription after determining that one of my credit cards associated with my account was expired. Hell, it was more than expired, it was one that I recently paid off & cancelled! Needless to say, they totally ignored the debit card that is in good standing. The one that I HAVE BEEN USING TO PAY THIS SUBSCRIPTION WITH.
This blog was off-line for almost an entire week.
Asshats.
Unfortunately, that’s the only way to pay for this blog, and the only way to pay for equipment & supplies for the photo bidness I obtain from Ebay.
I’m stuck.
Maybe it’s time to forge ahead with my own EMS Haiku domain…
PayPal, I hate you. You suck.
A Fire Department I used to volunteer with had this saying:
“I’ve got Castrophobia!”
‘A fear of Communist Cuban leaders? Join the long line of American presidents…’
From Keep Breathing, RRT:
Another blog post about the futility of ‘modern medicine’, and his current state of burnout:
I give albuterol treatments to people with CHF because the doctor is too retarded to realize that it won’t do anything.
I can relate – not to the burnout, but to ineffective, useless treatments.
Recently I responded to a call where I met the Fire Dept already on scene. The Paramedic was ACTUALLY monitoring EtCO2, and even mentioned to me that the waveforms were normal. Kudos for actually using the equipment we are provided with.
Yet, he started a nebulizer treatment, because the patient had ‘wheezes’.
Nebulizer treatments are designed to treat bronchospasm. Medications in nebulizers are smooth muscle (insert ‘bronchial smooth muscle’ here) relaxers. They are meant to relax the smooth muscle in the bronchi and relieve bronchospasm.
“All that wheezes is not asthma”
There are several other causes of wheezing, especially if your patient is obese, on multiple cardiac/CHF medicines, has a temperature, and very poor positioning. Any one of these, much less a combination, is likely the cause of his/her wheezing.
‘Just because we can’ is not a decent excuse for administering a treatment, most especially a treatment with potentially dangerous side effects.
