"follow the light brita!!"
After a brief hiatus, we have returned to filming EMT-B practical skill stations. And thus, we present a textbook Medical Assessment. Watch!
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Now that you’ve been introduced to respiratory emergencies and the MAST trousers psychomotor skill station, you may be asking yourself, what am I listening for when I auscultate the lungs? And what is this rales I keep hearing about? Fortunately, we have some examples for your auditory perusal after the jump:
So that’s where all those betamax tapes on the shelf went! brownEMS.org training presents skill station 1 of 9: Airway. Learn the ins and outs of all the airway devices and settings required to pass this skill station. Check it out on the Skill Station Videos page.
We are excited to introduce a new featured columnist to brownEMS.org, Tim Satty. I have had the good fortune of knowing and working with Tim for nearly three years now, and can say that his experience in EMS and Fire is a huge asset to brown EMS. In addition to being an excellent provider, he is very passionate about the brown EMS corps. What follows is his first column on the topic of SPINEBOARDING.
In my mind one of the most idiotic things we do in EMS is backboard every trauma patient that presents to us with any sort of head or neck complaint. You cannot find me a single person that is comfortable on one of those babies. If you didn’t have back pain before being boarded, you do after.
Tim’s article in full after the jump:
The lab evaluation sheets and the airway devices and settings .pdfs have been added to the summer course page, so if you’re really bored and don’t want to sleep just yet, you can prep for tomorrow’s lecture and lab session. See you soon!
