Comments for Pink Warm and Dry

Comment on A Question… by Epijunky

Epijunky — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:48:56 +0000

Hey Girly!!!

I get that part. Why do we do it then? That’s what I’m stuck on.

Comment on A Question… by Karen

Karen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:38:57 +0000

I was looking at that the other day. The following is what I got from it. When a peds heart is beating 60 times a minute assuming it is fairly healthy it pumping with an 80 percent ejection fraction meaning it is pumping pretty well. PALS teaches that you do CPR at 100 compressions per minute if the ped is at 60. When you do CPR the ejection fraction is nowhere near the heart’s ability. So if you are overriding the hearts normal ability with a faster less effienct “beat” that is not really helpful to your patient. When you break it down it makes a little more sense. I had to think abtou it for awhile. This is what I took from it whether or not I am right no clue.

Comment on Writers Block. Poof. by 40lizard

40lizard — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:28 +0000

Glad she’s better and I hate to tell you this but we have 2 of those bad boys at work! They are so awesomely cool and I sincerely hope we are going to get to replace the whole fleet with these new ones!

Comment on Writers Block. Poof. by VTEMT

VTEMT — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:52:24 +0000

Blogland will still be there when you’re done with school and your life gets (almost) back to normal. You’re doing the right thing to focus on you and your family. Just keep good notes and think of all the material you’ll have when you get back ! Glad you’re baby’s OK..!

Comment on Writers Block. Poof. by Medic999

Medic999 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:19:44 +0000

Glad to hear SWR is well and look forward to Reading your thoughts when you post them.
You have a lot on your plate! Don’t feel any pressure to blog. We will all still be here and subscribing to your RSS anyway.

Comment on A Challenge. by Mr618

Mr618 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:29:18 +0000

Some folks may have a hard time finding an AHA class in their area. Don’t forget, the American Red Cross also offers CPR/First Aid/AED (automated external defibrillator/’heart zapper’) training. You can find your closest Red Cross chapter at http://www.RedCross.org and plugging your zip code into the box.

Full disclosure: I’ve been a Red Cross instructor for 20 years. Did the cross-over to AHA instructor, got a non-functional password to the AHA instructor site, could never get them to answer the phones/emails, said “scroot” to AHA.

Comment on A Challenge. by Justin "HM" Schorr

Justin "HM" Schorr — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:22:39 +0000

Right on Epi, right on. See you in Baltimore.

Comment on A Challenge. by bobball

bobball — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:01:52 +0000

Cool! Game on! I’ll drop a note next week with where I’m at.

And for the record…I’m not going to do this through work…I’ll do it at school, scouts, or someplace like that.

Though, now that I think about it, I may see if our department’s webmeister may put this up on the public page (or even the hospital’s site).

Comment on A Fan of Her Life (pt 2) by Squeezey

Squeezey — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:32:31 +0000

Amazing post. You write beautifully Epi. I really felt like I was there with you and Regina. You should be proud of how much you care for your patients, you give then nothing but optimal standard care. Keep up the fantastic posts.

Comment on A Challenge. by 40lizard

40lizard — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:13:02 +0000

We’re ahead of you guys! I am a CPR instructor and just helped teach a class today. Our student group RSU EMSSA has sponsored two events now- one was a city wide CPR event with all the extras-candy, Lifeflight and ambulances and fire there and just today we did a CPR class for the faculty and staff at RSU- We have a Facebook page etc etc. We are slowly (ugh) getting the word out that we are available to teach CPR and hope to really get it going as the spring goes on!