911paramedic
Diamond Member
We (EMT's, Paramedics, Firefighters, Police, Sheriffs, etc) do it for the sake of the job. The amount of knowledge and training that goes into becoming a medic would make a few people take a few steps backwards.
We (medics) know about all the prescription meds you take (actions, doses, effects, etc. hundreds of them...), what meds we give, over 25, (when we give meds we are tested with blank sheets of paper. We are asked what the different names are, what its actions are, contraindications, doses, when to give them, when not to, drugs it will have reactions with, pregnancy problems, etc. For the test you have to write everything down about a med, to be compared to the pharmacy printout.) My epinepherine pater was over three pages, I missed one becase my S looked like an E because I write so fast. I just finished a 24 hour shift with the sheriff's dept on a search mission, so I remember that test well because of that.
LMAO, try this:
dopamine drip (you just called in all the patient info over the radio and told them why the patient needs it), 10mcg/kg/min in an 800mcg/ml solution with a IV of NS, you have an IV with a macro-drip running. Try to figure out that dose at 3AM. If you get it wrong you can kill your patient. Advanced life support methods, EKG reading and interpretation, about 100 more skills are all happening at the same time too...
GO!!
I cant list it all. If you really want to know, visit my old website (still up I think) and look at the training medics go through.
We (medics) know about all the prescription meds you take (actions, doses, effects, etc. hundreds of them...), what meds we give, over 25, (when we give meds we are tested with blank sheets of paper. We are asked what the different names are, what its actions are, contraindications, doses, when to give them, when not to, drugs it will have reactions with, pregnancy problems, etc. For the test you have to write everything down about a med, to be compared to the pharmacy printout.) My epinepherine pater was over three pages, I missed one becase my S looked like an E because I write so fast. I just finished a 24 hour shift with the sheriff's dept on a search mission, so I remember that test well because of that.
LMAO, try this:
dopamine drip (you just called in all the patient info over the radio and told them why the patient needs it), 10mcg/kg/min in an 800mcg/ml solution with a IV of NS, you have an IV with a macro-drip running. Try to figure out that dose at 3AM. If you get it wrong you can kill your patient. Advanced life support methods, EKG reading and interpretation, about 100 more skills are all happening at the same time too...
GO!!
I cant list it all. If you really want to know, visit my old website (still up I think) and look at the training medics go through.
