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JanyaUC at aol.com JanyaUC at aol.comThu Apr 6 23:05:03 BST 2006
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well i'm going to jump in. i don't have scientific data to support my opinions. my opinions come purely out of my experiences. i just don't see what all the hoopla is about. if a pt is not breathing/barely breathing/ or in imminent resp arrest, why wait till they get to the hospital to intubate? i honestly can't think of many incidences where we got a pt that was tubed in the field and had to ask myself and the medics.... why did you do that? on the contrary i've probably received more pt's by ems that i've had to ask why didn't you tube? as we tare open the airway cart to do just that. with the golden ABC's being what they are i'll take a secure airway and all the perks that come with it like breathing/ventilation and circulation over just about anything else. ok my shield is on and armed and i'm ready for the onslaught... Jan In a message dated 4/6/2006 3:49:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, xg2k2 at yahoo.com writes: It's difficult to not exactly know what the issues are, but if anything, we should atleast try to take a stab in the dark. We may have the best trained EMTs in the world, but we are still trying to get as close to 0% morbmort as possible. EMTs in the field probably don't exactly have the necessary time to fully assess a patient's suitability for intubation; perhaps we should focus more on training EMTs on efficient techniques of ruling out red flags prior to intubation so they could do their job and lose alot of time in getting the PT to the rescus bay. I think the goal should be to reach the peak of the intubation curve; have EMTs know know where intubation is necessary to help a pt get to the hospital in an animate state, and others where intubation will do more harm than good and have the EMTs just stick the pt on the gurney and get them to trauma asap. It'll be heavily costly to institute such measures, and there may be certain errors or backtracking in the way, which is terribly unfortunate, but I suppose in the long run, it may be a necessary step if we are constantly striving to improve our EMS. -Mike F
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