I am a paramedic and author of several textbooks. I also founded Limmer Education, a publisher of smartphone apps for EMS and medicine. limmereducation.com
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Decapevisceration. I may add that to the #EMT book in the next edition. 😂When your guts are ripped out through your head. #dog#dogtoy#ems#trauma#paramedic
Join us at the next PCRF Journal Club where we review a study that sought to understand how EMS clinicians assessed patients who devolved to cardiac arrest in their presence & uncover the barriers associated with recognizing and treating witnessed. bit.ly/3EcJAyT#EMS
While reviewing #cpr with my class I said a child is 1 year of age to puberty. Patients are considered adults after puberty. A student asked, “When does adult end?”
I said “When CPR stops.” #ems#emt#paramedic
There are times when lifting a patient to a stair chair, bumping down two flights, transferring to a stretcher and a ride to the hospital in a diesel truck does more for improving mental status than any medication or fluid we carry. #ems#paramedic#emt
Want to know how to deal with stressful calls on the street? Learn 7 Things to deal with stress & improve performance from an emergency physician Dr. Mike Lauria (@ResusPadawan), who was a special forces medic. Cool. Listen and Get CE Now: bit.ly/StreetMedicine#EMS#paramedic
Is there a patient refusal “culture” or trend in #EMS? If so, is it a side effect of call volume, staffing woes, or personnel issues? Is it education? Or is it an early effect of #MIH, treat and release, progressive EMS? All of the above isn’t an acceptable answer. #paramedic
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t piss into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off that Ol’ Lone Ranger and you don’t kill John Wick’s dog. @JohnWickMovie
I don’t know what you believe about the $15 minimum wage. Politics today sucks. But I do personally know EMTs who will get a raise of several dollars an hour should that become law. And that is damn sad. #EMT#EMS
I teach my #EMT and #AEMT students that SAMPLE is a mnemonic and not the way you talk to patients. The patient history is a journey. Follow it to successful assessment. #EMS@LimmerEducation@GalvestonEdu
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