Question for Paramedics/EMTs

[cbrchick]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

I think Epinephrine is one of them. You give O2 and learn CPR along with AED use. I can already learned about EKGs in A&P2 so I should be okay there.

What EMTs can do varies from state to state. An ambulance company told me that in places like Alaska and Colorado EMTs can place chest tubes in the field. I'd shit a brick if some EMT said they wanted to place a chest tube in me.

I ordered that Brady Emergency Care book. Hopefully it'll be a good one. Also got an EMT-Basic quiz booklet to look over. Any Anatomy or Physiology questions I know. It's just some of the procedures that I don't but a lot of it is common sense (like don't remove an impailed object unless it is blocking an airway).

No offense, but with 5 weeks of training, I too would shit a brick if some EMT decided to put a chest tube in me... considering, it's a surgical procedure sometimes done under sedation... but mostly, I imagine, in the field it would be a heimlich valve for decompression of a lung not a chest tube (that's more of an advanced care paramedic procedure i.e., life flight).

So if you ca "push" Epi, you must have to learn ACLS.... unless it's IM for reactions....