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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 27, 2008 14:17:13 GMT
NGGGGGGGGGGGGAH!
Andy
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Post by Hero on Oct 29, 2008 18:39:52 GMT
Been getting by today, although its been miserable with stomach pains and problems with Zip. I am a survivor!!!!
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 9, 2008 23:29:35 GMT
Mild channeling appeciated on Wednesday, when I have five, yes FIIIIVE practical assesments at Uni. Intubation- Adult and Peadi (gold standard airway, where you stick a tube down someone's neck), Canulation (needle in the hand/arm), Intraosseus (needle in the bone- eew!), Thorocentisis (decompression tension pneumothorax), and Needle Cricothyroid airway (needle into the trachea, emergency airway).
Freakidee.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 9, 2008 23:57:35 GMT
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNGH.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Nov 10, 2008 7:19:33 GMT
hhhhhrrrgghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 10, 2008 8:20:30 GMT
What kind of paramedic are you if you don't know how to do those things already?!?!
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 10, 2008 10:14:44 GMT
I'm currently an EMT, Emergency Medical Technician. When you join A&E, you're an EMT for a coupla years, and wait for the next Paramedic intake. Which, considering it's the NHS, is hit and miss at best. Formally you had to be an EMT for 2 years before you were allowed to go for the Paramedic entry exams, they've now dropped that to 1 year (it is vital in the job to have a period as an EMT working (in theory) with Paras, gaining experience- just like you have junior doctors and nurses working under more experienced staff). I've only had to wait a year and half for a course, some folkes on the my course have had to wait 3 or 4 years! Think of an EMT as a half-Paramedic. An EMT can do a decent amount of stuff, Defib , spinal-board, oxygen, salbutamol, Glycogen, but only a full Para can do the REALLY cool stuff like putting needles into people's chests! Anything 'invasive' an EMT can't do (apart form intra-muscle injections and certain airway adjuncts). Things have changed of late, which has meant this new Uni based course is now available. Which is a much better way of learning than the old Ambulance Service- save cash 7 week cram cram cram pass an exam -course. Now, on an Ambo, there should be an EMT and a Para. 70% of the time I work with another EMT. Alot of the time it doesn't matter, but every now and then it does, so it's great to finally be on a course!
Here endeth your first 'How the Ambulance Service Works' lecture. Any questions?
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 10, 2008 10:18:25 GMT
Here endeth your first 'How the Ambulance Service Works' lecture. Any questions? Just one question. If you're a "half-paramedic" how do you treat really tall people? |
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 10, 2008 15:05:43 GMT
I don't. I LET THEM DIE!!!!!!!!!
(sorry that was really sick wasn't it?)
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 10, 2008 16:40:13 GMT
Channeling Kirk from Star Trek VI, I see.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Nov 10, 2008 18:42:52 GMT
Being beat up mentally by an essay of doom that must be in 2pm tommorrow (24 hour window)
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 10, 2008 18:49:11 GMT
I'm currently an EMT, Emergency Medical Technician. Ah! So you're an ancestor of the Emergency Medical Hologram out of Star Trek. It all makes sense now... Martin |
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Post by legios on Nov 10, 2008 21:39:50 GMT
Ah! So you're an ancestor of the Emergency Medical Hologram out of Star Trek. It all makes sense now... Martin I now have an image of the Emergency Medical Hologram having fights between a Thor action figure and a Shockwave when there isn't anyone else around in sickbay...... But on another note - Ken, Shockprowl, channelling shall be provided for both of you. We are bringing the channelling device to speed and the atomic batteries to power as we speak. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 10, 2008 21:50:21 GMT
I-I-I-have to say it. I've tried to resist (and have done for several hours) but my Trek-fu must be released! I have to do it!
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
Phew. Feel better now.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Nov 10, 2008 23:55:27 GMT
"Thorocentisis (decompression tension pneumothorax)"
When I read those words I got an inkling of how Ralph feels when I talk about 7-hydroxymatairesinol. I know what... the two middle ones... mean on their own but all together I'm a bit perplexed. My level of knowledge of human anatomy is somewhere between 'shit' and 'none at all' so... Shockprowl, what does that mean?
-Nick
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Post by Hero on Nov 11, 2008 8:30:02 GMT
Ill today with really aching sinus' and I have to go into Uni and hand in an assignment I am about to finish on my 24 hour window. I will tough out the lectures and seminars I have today which don't finish until 18:30 and then a cold long couple of bus rides home.
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 12, 2008 16:54:03 GMT
"Thorocentisis (decompression tension pneumothorax)" When I read those words I got an inkling of how Ralph feels when I talk about 7-hydroxymatairesinol. I know what... the two middle ones... mean on their own but all together I'm a bit perplexed. My level of knowledge of human anatomy is somewhere between 'shit' and 'none at all' so... Shockprowl, what does that mean? -Nick Well, as I said during my practicle for this very proceedure, in which I KICKED ASS and passed... A tension pneumothorax is a very serious condition where some kind of injury to the chest, be it a penetrating injury or massive trauma, has caused a wound where, as the person breaths in, air is drawn into the pleural space (where the lungs are). We breath because our brain senses that there is too much carbon dioxide in our blood. This causes our rib muscles and diaphragm to contract. This causes negative presure in our lungs, thus air is drawn in from outside. When a person is developing a tension pneumothorax, this same negative pressure exists in the pleural space- BUT- the air follows the easiest route to fill that negative space, ie through the wound in the chest, not via the natural airway and into the lungs. Air, under presure, continues to build up in the plueral space. This collapses the lung on the effected side, and starts to compress the heart and the remaining lung. This can quickly lead to serious difficultly in breathing and advanced obstructive shock. Ultimately leading to death. A thorocentis is the insertion of a large bore needle inbetween the 2nd and 3rd ribs, in an attempt to allow the air in the chest to escape, reducing the presure inside the plueral space, thus allowing the heart and remaining lung to function properly. It's what we emergency folkes call a 'shit the pants' condition. It's exciting 'cos, although it's not oftend seen, it's a imminently life threatening condition that we can immediately reverse. (the author the above does not appologies for any spelling mistakes 'cos he's had two cans of stella to cellebrate having passed the above practicle, AAAATHANYOUUU!) |
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 12, 2008 17:05:19 GMT
Oh and 'hydroxymoronsinol-what'?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2008 12:00:26 GMT
I need some channeling on the morning of the 24th of November for a job interview. It's a temporary post but anything is better than currently working zero hours for zero pence and it would put me in a much better position come the next job search than in my current situation.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 17, 2008 12:45:00 GMT
*schedules future channelling* Channeling shall duly commence next Monday morning.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 17, 2008 12:45:16 GMT
Say no more. Channeling will be yours!
Andy
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Post by Hero on Nov 20, 2008 6:16:57 GMT
I got something wrong with my throat and can't speak. On RULES week of all weeks I can only say stuff RULES in Cyberspace.
*channels for Ralph's job interview* (Ralph RULES)
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