Jeannie Middlebrooks AAS, NRP, I/C

We refresh our skills all the time. But do you refresh your knowledge as much? Sirens, Lights, and lawyers is written by a street medic turned lawyer. You’d be surprised how much you were taught wrong about EMS legality, and how much you don’t know amzn.to/3JWfEtf

@naomidoingthing Hell I’m still locked out. Stuck on shutdown board 🙄

@ReddHeadEMed its so annoying, everyone is damaging my landmarks lol

my monopoly go is stuck on the ‘shut down’ page and i cant get through omggg

It’s 5 am in Georgia. It’s 70 degrees with 98% humidity. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

@AndyMcKinlay10 I have to agree with a complete heart block and ventricular standstill.

@EMSAvenger @jzalkin Exactly.

@ReddHeadEMed @jzalkin Not just hemorrhage control. Tube/cric, bilateral needle decomp/finger thoracostomy, and pericardiocentesis. Chest compressions are for a closed, unimpeded cardiovascular system.

Withhold chest compressions in Traumatic arrest? Arizona, Baltimore, New Orleans and Milwaukee have opinions. #EaglesGather23

@medicboogie The post asked specifically about non-emergent transports. Patients who need immediate surgery at a higher care facility. Those would be emergent. A patient that’s having surgery on their big toe in a week and is being transferred. That’s non emergent.

Do you think Transport EMS should be allowed to go to lights and sirens for non emergent transports?

This is a helpful thread to look into.

@EMSPAC1 Why would anyone go lights and sirens for a non emergency transport. The exponential increase in risk of accident/injury simply by activating Red lights and sirens can not be justified for a non emergent transport. I don’t understand why this is even a question.

@drkeithsiau CyanoKit?

Urine sample with an unusual colour. What’s the diagnosis?

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@RESQOPSGROUP @TraumaSoapBoxes Also decreases ph

@TraumaSoapBoxes Permissive hypotension until bleeding can be controlled. Introducing fluids can increase BP, decrease clotting, create hemodilution, and add to coagulopathic hypothermia.

@IM_Crit_ Pasta water < blood. Period.

Friendly reminder (two cases this month): If a patient is actively bleeding & is hypotensive, we don’t have to (and we should NOT) wait for hemoglobin to fall below 7.0 g/dl I just saw a patient that received 4 liters of NS but no blood… I think we have scared people a lot

@garvs_72 @IM_Crit_ Pasta water < blood

@footyisunited @NatashaMDay Then we would pick them up and carry them back to the hospital because at that point, it is now a medical Problem. Not a “no ride home” Problem.