Two of the only reasons I even get on twitter (or X) anymore is for all the critical care physicians and FOAM ed and for the posts of @DanFromVirginia tbh 😂
If you work in Fire/EMS and you have the following opinions...
1) Suicide is their choice we shouldn't waste our time
2) overdoses don't deserve Narcan
Get out of Fire/EMS. You don't belong in this career.
I‘ve settled on one of the strongest reasons to support the #NEMSAC draft position to create a masters prepared paramedic practitioner. Send a medic to PA-C school and we remain net neutral as we took someone else’s spot. Add a PA-C & a PP and you gain providers.
@IM_Crit_ I have attached a long winded thought on this gas. Hopefully it explains my thoughts, even if long winded. Any comments / criticisms let me know.
Fellow paramedics… Normalize talking to your patients and finding the root cause of their issue. Sometimes they don’t need to sit in an ER waiting room and catch COVID/influenza. Sometimes they just need someone to help them make dinner, reassure them, and refer them to SS. #EMS
Hi, ER Doc here.
I use this account to teach people about medical emergencies. It’s my birthday today and would love to hit 200K followers to be able to reach more people.
Can I get some follows and RTs to help me get there?
@Wayfair really needs to evaluate who they contract with as “delivery partners.” If the deliver partners deliver as awful customer service as I’ve experienced, it’s time to find another partner.
"Have seen paramedics with 3 years of experience do amazing work. Have seen medics with 25 years of experience melt down on simple calls.
Sometimes 25 years experience is really just a first year repeated 25 times over.
The difference is the person who didn’t stop learning."
Excellent @SeattleFire study demonstrates that ETCO2 < 25 mmHg is predictive of hemorrhagic shock in adult trauma patients. Full study:https://t.co/XLyC8I6yBe
Okay, this right here. If we want more respect in EMS, we need to be clinicians and not technicians. Please please provide adequate care to your patients.
Charge: “half of the firefighter team and the ambulance crews in this county are out with COVID-19. They don’t have enough people in the field, so when they come with patients, find a stretcher so the crew can go back out to answer other calls.”