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[1oldcoyote]

ILbowhntr, Are you a certified EMT (basic?) If not, I suggest going to a medical book store. Or ordering one on line a (EMT-basic training manual). Otherwise if I recall correctly. I scanned through an old Boy Scout 1st aid manual many decades ago. It was excellent as to handling 1st aid & taking care of field wounds/fractures & controlled bleeding. Perhaps a recent Boy Scout manual is even better than the one I viewed decades ago?

Also it is good for anyone to become familiar with the human body Arterial/Venous system(to control bleeding). A person can view & copy from various internet sites (if allowed?)

BTW, Thanks for your Service.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

@1oldcoyote I got my EMT-B and you’re right, it’s mind-blowing how much more advanced that is over a first aid training. In retrospect now, it’s more than I needed to do and FR/Wilderness FR is really all I may continue.

 

[hank4elk]

@1oldcoyote I got my EMT-B and you’re right, it’s mind-blowing how much more advanced that is over a first aid training. In retrospect now, it’s more than I needed to do and FR/Wilderness FR is really all I may continue.

Did some improvised corpsman stuff in my youth in combat. When I took my EMT-II test it was a breeze and I still have the books. Thanks to what a Navy corpsman taught me.
Never lost a patient in 15 years.

 

[1oldcoyote]

I view the human a most remarkable creation. We are both most fragile & sometimes take a severe pounding & survive. My partner & I extricated a woman one day. Who was not wearing a seatbelt. Her large old late model car. Met a large box truck head on on a highway. She slammed into the steering wheel, brake pedal & dash. We found her still alive in a broken mass of human flesh. Stuffed up under the dash from the impact. Almost every bone in her body was broken at least once. During the extrication & loud drone of our hydraulic extrication motor. We could hear her say over & over. "Please give me something for the pain" in a mumbled moaning voice. She was the worst trauma victim I ever seen. She lived. Conversely I have seen others, stone cold dead from minor traumas.

I have seen a lot of trauma victims in my 28yrs of public service. Some lived, some were stone cold dead upon our arrival. I have come to the conclusion. We don't die until it is OUR time. God calls the shots down here on ole Mother Earth. Take that to the bank.

 

[1oldcoyote]

@1oldcoyote I got my EMT-B and you’re right, it’s mind-blowing how much more advanced that is over a first aid training. In retrospect now, it’s more than I needed to do and FR/Wilderness FR is really all I may continue.

Good for you!

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

I view the human a most remarkable creation. We are both most fragile & sometimes take a severe pounding & survive. My partner & I extricated a woman one day. Who was not wearing a seatbelt. Her large old late model car. Met a large box truck head on on a highway. She slammed into the steering wheel, brake pedal & dash. We found her still alive in a broken mass of human flesh. Stuffed up under the dash from the impact. Almost every bone in her body was broken at least once. During the extrication & loud drone of our hydraulic extrication motor. We could hear her say over & over. "Please give me something for the pain" in a mumbled moaning voice. She was the worst trauma victim I ever seen. She lived. Conversely I have seen others, stone cold dead from minor traumas.

I have seen a lot of trauma victims in my 28yrs of public service. Some lived, some were stone cold dead upon our arrival. I have come to the conclusion. We don't die until it is OUR time. God calls the shots down here on ole Mother Earth. Take that to the bank.

Sounds like a Glasgow of 10 somehow!

 

[1oldcoyote]

Sounds like a Glasgow of 10 somehow!

I could not believe she was still alive. I give women more credit than I do men for the most part. For taking punishing physical trauma. I've seen it many times. I fail to remember a lot of medical terminology. As it's been many yrs since I was a medic. There are some tough men. However, most men are whiners when they take a physical pounding vs women.

 

[1oldcoyote]

I could not believe she was still alive. I give women more credit than I do men for the most part. For taking punishing physical trauma. I've seen it many times. I fail to remember a lot of medical terminology. As it's been many yrs since I was a medic. There are some tough men. However, most men are whiners when they take a physical pounding vs women.

I edited my post. Actually the Glascow Coma scale is rated 0-15. Zero being the worst number given to a trauma patient. So if a trauma patient has a low scale number. They are in sorry condition. I do not remember the scoring now days.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

I edited my post. Actually the Glascow Coma scale is rated 0-15. Zero being the worst number given to a trauma patient. So if a trauma patient has a low scale number. They are in sorry condition. I do not remember the scoring now days.

It’s 3-15 and Eyes 4 Verbal 5 Motor 6. This online quiz thing helped me practice all the time prior to NREMT. https://abg.ninja/gcs

 

[1oldcoyote]

It’s 3-15 and Eyes 4 Verbal 5 Motor 6. This online quiz thing helped me practice all the time prior to NREMT. https://abg.ninja/gcs

Yep thats it. Age sucks as my mind & memory fades away.

 

[Tkmalphurs]

What happens when a medicine goes bad?

 

[feedback]

I view the human a most remarkable creation. We are both most fragile & sometimes take a severe pounding & survive. My partner & I extricated a woman one day. Who was not wearing a seatbelt. Her large old late model car. Met a large box truck head on on a highway. She slammed into the steering wheel, brake pedal & dash. We found her still alive in a broken mass of human flesh. Stuffed up under the dash from the impact. Almost every bone in her body was broken at least once. During the extrication & loud drone of our hydraulic extrication motor. We could hear her say over & over. "Please give me something for the pain" in a mumbled moaning voice. She was the worst trauma victim I ever seen. She lived. Conversely I have seen others, stone cold dead from minor traumas.

I have seen a lot of trauma victims in my 28yrs of public service. Some lived, some were stone cold dead upon our arrival. I have come to the conclusion. We don't die until it is OUR time. God calls the shots down here on ole Mother Earth. Take that to the bank.

Amen to what you said about the Good Lord!!!

 

[Shed God]

Idk along time ago I cut my quad and lateral in half with a chain saw. In the madison valley. True story. No chain saw chaps. I thought I was very good with chain saw. 455 stihl 28 inch bar. When it happened looked down at my leg. Could see my femur bone. Glossy white. Drive myself to highway. Wrapped my leg with my hoodie. Huge blood loss. Got to highway. Had to make other guy drive. Once we got to highway. I felt I was going out of it. Pass out. Got to ennis hospital. They couldn't help me. Stop bleeding and pain. Bozeman life flight. Fixed me. Got 90 percent of my left leg. And I hear these guys say hiked 12 miles today gained 3000 ft elevation and I laugh. Because I can out walk anyone but my brothers. My opionon is u want to survive or u don't.

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Are you bound by liability to give us advice that only the manufacturer packaging can give us or something? I mean you’ve already been relieved of liability by the big Dog, that your advice is not to be substituted for that of your doctor…

For instance, I’m deathly allergic to bees and cannot afford an epi pen, or perhaps it’s expired. (Mostly true; I have my 10 year old son’s half-dose in my hunting pack)

If I were a long way from a hospital and got stung by a bee (totally plausible), what would be your suggestion on administering an expired dose of epinephrine, or even an expired packet of Benadryl? Is it too risky for you to give me a real “if-it-were-me” recommendation? I’m sure I’ll get some flak for this but I was quoted over $600 for two the first time for an epi pen and it expired in 6 months. I have since found another option that was $320 for ONE but it lasted a year. May seem small potatoes to some, but we all walk a different life… Thankfully my son was covered for his two, and I commandeered one. Would a half dose of epinephrine even buy me any time?

 

[Shed God]

No only thing I got from it was no medical bills. Was on bureau of land management time. My fault no chaps.

 

[Shed God]

I can ask my mom and sister for u flat brimmer there both doctors

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

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