I'm not asking what creatures scare you. But rather, what scenarios scare you?

Probably falling from a large height.

You arrive on scene for a rescue call, and you find someone nearly dead splayed out on the floor. You will probably know nothing about them, and there is a good possibility that they carry blood born diseases, you you need to act to save them. In the back of a moving ambulance there is very little room with many people working, and sharps such a needles can easily stick you with one false move or slip on a turn. While all this is going on, I sit there looking into this persons near lifeless eyes, providing artificial respirations with a BVM, you need to keep the rhythm perfect... One breath every 6 seconds... To fast, and they die. To slow, and the die. Once every 6 seconds.

TL;DR It is f***ing scary working a good call in the back of an ambulance.

I guess you're scared that his blood will fuse into yours?

Loveless wrote:I guess you're scared that his blood will fuse into yours?

The guy's life is in his hands, and if he fails he could get sued for this and emotional distress.

I don't think they'll put someone's life in Preid's 19 year old hands.

EMS workers share a unique risk with prostitutes, If we get pricked there is a good chance we will get HIV or SARS or something nasty like that. That and Ill kill a guy if I get distracted. Did I tell you I do this stuff for fun?

Loveless wrote:I don't think they'll put someone's life in Preid's 19 year old hands.

They do, and have. I am a certified EMT.

preid1220 wrote:

Loveless wrote:I don't think they'll put someone's life in Preid's 19 year old hands.

They do, and have. I am a certified EMT.

THAT is pretty scary indeed.

I mean, even with certification, you're still 19. I think 24 should be the minimum.

Loveless wrote:

preid1220 wrote:

Loveless wrote:I don't think they'll put someone's life in Preid's 19 year old hands.

They do, and have. I am a certified EMT.

THAT is pretty scary indeed.

I mean, even with certification, you're still 19. I think 24 should be the minimum.

It's all really rather simple at the EMT level, the most invasive thing I can do is give an epi pen or use a BVM. The medics need to go for about two years or classes in order to stick people with sharps. That being said, it's the really basic things that need to be done most of the time to keep you alive, like maintaining an airway or controlling a bleed.

Are you trained for CPR?

Yeah, CPR is the easiest thing in the world and everyone should learn it.

Well let me test you.

What two areas should you avoid putting pressure on when performing CPR?

Loveless wrote:Well let me test you.

What two areas should you avoid putting pressure on when performing CPR?

Test me? Well you certainly seem haughty. You just do compressions of 1 1/2 - 2 inches on the center of the sternum at a rate of 30 compressions to two breaths for an adult.

Loveless wrote:Well let me test you.

What two areas should you avoid putting pressure on when performing CPR?

Every area that isn't your sternum. That includes face, neck, crotch, feet, etc.

preid1220 wrote:

Loveless wrote:Well let me test you.

What two areas should you avoid putting pressure on when performing CPR?

Test me? Well you certainly seem haughty. You just do compressions of 1 1/2 - 2 inches on the center of the sternum at a rate of 30 compressions to two breaths for an adult.

That didn't answer my question. I'm asking what two areas should you avoid.

@Fang: No, lol.

The genitalia and thyroid glands fit into this department, but I'm willing to guess you are talking about the lower septum and stomach? Ether way, I've preformed CPR multiple times where as I doubt you have used it once so stop acting so arrogant. (Unfortunately I have no saves, but there is really nothing much we can do for you if you have multiple medical problems and half your heart is getting no perfusion.)

I'm not being arrogant. I'm just testing you. And the answer is manubrium and xiphoid process of the sternum so they don't snap off. Trust me, I'm a doctor.

CPR is as easy as put hands here - keep pumping until someone comes to take over. You don't need a PHD to do that. Come back and tell me what to do after you spend several hour pumping away.

Knowing that you shouldn't apply pressure in the manubrium and xiphoid process doesn't require a PhD either.