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  1. Triage Regulations

    medic182 posted a topic in Emergency

    I am trying to find information about triage regulations in the state of PA or anywhere really and I am unable to find anything concrete. Here is the situation our ER is in. We are a small community...

  2. Lactate Monitoring

    medic182 posted a topic in Emergency

    I am wondering if any ERs out there are doing bedside lactate monitoring via capillary to venous sample. Our flight crews do it, but we are not doing it in the ER, in fact it's not routinely ordered...

  3. Lactate Monitoring

    medic182 replied to medic182's topic in Emergency

    Does a lactate level effect the way you treat a patient. I know it is a great indicator of cellular hypoxia and mortality, but is there a set protocol you follow. I.E. patient with stable vital...

  4. Needle Stick Protocol - Antiretroviral?

    medic182 replied to NCindasun21's topic in Infectious Disease

    The patient should have been tested. The gold standard of care is a rapid HIV test and you should have results in less than 12 hours, usually with in an hour. If the source patient is HIV positive...

  5. Bad code

    medic182 replied to sk8rn's topic in Emergency

    First things first. You can only do much with a code like this, so congrats on doing what you can do. Let's tackle one thing at a time. Difficult IV access. Gotta love the IV drug users with no...

  6. paramedics in the ER

    medic182 replied to blufoxtrot's topic in Emergency

    I agree.. I have been a medic for 7 years and now an ER RN. there is a huge difference! never in a hospital based setting should an EMT-P outrank an RN, that is the simple truth. Look at flight...