AP vs AL defib pad placement | EMTLIFE
2012年9月9日 · 6. Christopher said: My understanding is for defib it depends on the pads you select. The stat-padz/CPR padz are intended for traditional Ant/Lat placement (they call it Sternal/Apex placement). Their recommendation for cardioversion of atrial arrhythmias is Ant/Post with the Apex/anterior pad to the right of the sternum.
Incorrect AED pad placement for lay responder First Aid/CPR
2020年8月16日 · When the pads on a commercial AED are placed incorrectly on the upper left shoulder and the right side the electrical charge is not delivered through the entire heart but focuses more toward the atria and lesser on the ventricles depending on the actual placement of …
Battle of the Best 12 Lead ECG Placement! - EMTLIFE
2018年2月28日 · For routine 12-lead recording, the AHA statement of 1975 recommended placement of the 4 limb lead electrodes on the arms and legs distal to the shoulders and hips, and thus not necessarily on the wrists and ankles. Evidence exists that different placement of electrodes on the limbs can alter the ECG, a phenomenon that appears to be more marked ...
Using adult pads on 1-8yo's | EMTLIFE
2010年4月21日 · Working in education department at the moment. We have to give some very clear instructions to our staff on pad placement on kids around the 10kg/1yo but have a very interesting problem with exactly where to put the pads - adult pads that is. Read on. The problem is this. First, we...
Body Jewelry & defibrillators | EMTLIFE
2011年10月11日 · Defib pads aren't supposed to be placed over either nipple, or belly button. And thankfully, most people who require them won't have "sexy" piercings anyway. This. AT the end opf the day, if you need to defibrillate a a pt, very minor caused by quick removal of jewellery will be the least of the pts worries.
I think i earned a +1 to all the paramedics in the world today...
2011年2月27日 · or, at least the ones in this area. I was doing a deep night clinical for school last night/this morning when this happened. Hx-31yoM single car MVC head on collision at ~65mph into the dividing barrier in the HOV lane. On arrival the medics found the pt. unconscience GCSx3, pt restrained...
ALS Discussion | Page 56 | EMTLIFE
2012年9月11日 · For all that stuff specifically related to ALS including EMT-I and EMT-P related discussion.
Dextrocardia - EMTLIFE
2009年9月10日 · Dextrocardia (dextroposition) alone means that the heart is more on the right side of the thorax than the left, but does not necessarily mean that it is anatomically reversed. Dextrocardia Situs Inversus, on the other hand means a true mirrored reversal of the normal anatomical position of the heart.
AED Use - EMTLIFE
2014年4月26日 · So, a few points about the electricity vis-a-vis defibrillation. One of the big concepts is that dry skin is a piss poor conductor, it's got a resistance of somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 ohms, comparatively the wet squishy stuff inside winds up being somewhere around 11,000 ohms in the average human.
How the hell do you put AED pads on backwards | Page 2 - EMTLIFE
2015年1月30日 · 43. There is actually a positive and negative pad. I wouldn't say "it doesn't matter," better to say, "it doesn't matter that much." If you're monitoring a rhythm through the pads, the rhythm will be upside down if the pads are reversed. For an AED, like I said, it doesn't matter much. VT upside down will still be recognized by the machine as ...