Yeah. Most people suck at their job, nurses aren’t an exception

Okay, I’m going to be honest, the emt-b is a joke. But it’s a start.

My buddy found a two week course, and I did a six week course at fort Sam Houston and that was crazy enough. Look for a minimum eight weeks, but it’s a start.

A nice foundation for understanding medical guidelines, and a start, albeit it a weak one, towards saving lives.

I have contact with an 18D so that’s a start eh?

No, there’s a massive difference. 18D are amazing resources, truly. But you need hands on training.

That’s true.

I mainly meant the 18D to supplement knowledge.

I 100 percent recommend emt-b courses. You’ll get so much more out of your contact with a treating understanding, just from the nuances you may have missed.

I just...it’s hard to get training at my age.

Lies.

Community colleges offer training for all men and women.

Well....

Yeah..

ah fuck

What’s the thing used to test percussive resonance or whatever on a possible collapsed lung called?

I don’t even fucking know. Every single medical profession I’ve ever asked had the same answer.

“You’ll know it when you hear it”

Someone told me it’s the thing they test your knee with. The weird triangle hammer

Stethoscope?

Oh that shit.

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Reflex hammer?

Something like that.

I think they meant something else but that’s what I got from their *vivid* illustration

Okay I was thinking you were talking about doing yaps on the abdomen to check for abnormalities

Collapsed lung had signs you don’t need to test for, most obviously of course respiratory distress (difficulty breathing) but also look for Jugular vein Distention.

Always feel and listen to the patient as the breathe, as taught in CLS or TC3-AC

Hands on both sides of the ribs, ear to the mouth.

Check for asymmetric rise of the chest

One palm, one back of hand on the breasts

You know what I’m talking right?

Don’t do back of the hand. That’s a political call.

I think so. One side rising and falling more than the other or something.

That’s sign of a tension pneumothorax or hemothorax.

Yeah I know all of that

Bilateral rise and fall is the easiest visual indicator

Tracheal deviation is a late stage indicator

Use the palms. It was switched to backs of the hands over females being allowed in more roles to prevent false claims of sexual assault. The military is full of PC bullshit especially in training.

Tracheal deviation is really fuck bad.

At which point if there is suspected TPX, decompress at the designated sites. I’m sure you all know them.