the doctors out, but i know something!

So I've decided I'm not meant to work a 1000-2200 shift. They just end badly. The first one I went off road in a truck, the second I had a close encounter with lice, the third I spent almost 3 hours in the ER when my medic closed AND LATCHED the side ambulance door on her finger... Nether of us could figure out how her finger actually got in the door. I got pictures of the stitches after but not before for her sake. She broke off the joint capsule of her right index (luckily she's left handed) and needed 9 stitches!

I sat in the ER watching the nurses and doctors work when shouts for help were heard from the hall. I jumped up with everyone else and ran to the hall. Down the hall a nurse was pushing a man in a wheelchair. His feet dragging, his head rolled back as he gasped for breath. In what felt like seconds the man was moved from the hall to the trauma room and on to the bed. I watch from the hall as the nurses hurry to start IVs and EKGs. I know I could be a part of that flurry of activity if I knew what do. I could have set up the 12-lead and understood what the ST elevation meant. I could have started that IV he needed for life saving fluids and medication.  As a basic the most valuable thing I've learned and the thing pounded into me by almost every medic I've worked with is that I know almost nothing. I am still a baby in EMS, and I want to grow up. I want to work with a medic and have them be confident that I can do all of the basic life support needs of our patient and then star...

So this post is mostly going to be pictures from our Honeymoon/Vacation, We went up to Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor for the week. We stayed on the "quiet side" in Southwest Harbor. It was nice to have a solid week away after we've been working so much and planning the wedding. I'm sure I'll post wedding pictures when we get them.  The Cottage we stayed at all week. The car guardian was happy to go to Acadia too! Please don't try to watch the whole park loop now. It's 30 minutes long! but our random commentary is always nice to listen to! Rated PG-13 for language! So we had a great week! We're home now and working on getting our Apartment in living order, Writing thank you cards for the multitude of gifts we got from everyone, and continuing to "get married." Only 79 years and 51 weeks to go!

So myself and a fellow redditor Irunongames  have started working on a mobile electronic Patient care report app, but we want it to be much, much more then that. It works for Pt transfers and Pt charts, the end result is a serious under taking but would be awesome if it worked. So for now give us some feed back! Loading...

So I live in a state fortunate enough to have digital run reports (I'm sure some angry old medics are just waiting to troll me right now.) However, I don't see a point at the moment. I don't see why the local ER's are using EMR ether. I mean it would be really cool if we actually utilized it ... Unfortunately we don't. everyday medic have to print out their report using 2-5 pages of paper, then they fax it to the ER using another  2-5 pages of paper! That doesn't include the 2 page quick report we have to leave the hospital. Then we have cardiac monitors to worry about! those things will spit out 2-3 feet of readings if you don't watch them.  I do a lot of patient transfers at the moment. (It isn't all that fun but it pays the bills and that's good enough for now.) When you do a transfer especially a Phych transfer you always need three things. The Patient, hardest one to forget. However sometimes they don't wanna go and try to run the othe...

Well, not really. I deleted my Facebook. I got hacked and was posting spam, so i killed it! now I'm just posting to Google+, Twitter, and Tumblr. I can't access Tumblr at work though. Which is were I spend most of my waking hours. I'm looking for people to follow/follow me on Google+ and twitter. If you want me to follow you or add you to a circle just comment with a username! I recently started following this guy on twitter and he's freaking hilarious. He's made the #DearPatient tag awesome. # DearPatient   You lie to me, you get prescriptions for placebos. Do it again, you get Ipecac. And a Narcan Patch. Troll.  ~ RealEDdoc In other news, It's shark week on discovery! and Philip DeFranco is hosting! Go internet! Well, That's all I got... Remember to comment if you want to Share you're Twitter or G+

Starting out the day. Moving a full size bed up a narrow set of stairs, around a corner, out the door on a op of the van get to rigged to the top, driven a mile down the road, carried up another set of stair, another tight corner and finally to the bed room... Before: After: Realizing we aren't even close to done. Well, we aren't really done yet. But.... we're close enough to live in it!