Accidents and illness happen anywhere‚ but when you are out in the wilderness it presents additional challenges to an already stressful situation. Because the lack of accessibility to emergency medical help‚ survival depends on you. Education and equipment will increase the chances of survival. First Aid Training If you are planning on trekking out into the wilderness‚ one should have at least basic first aid training. The American Red Cross and the National Safety Council have classes across
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Heat exhaustion: This condition often occurs when people exercise in a hot‚ humid place and body fluids are lost through sweating‚ causing dehydration and overheating of the body. Temperature may be elevated‚ but not above 104 F (40 C). Occurs when not well adjusted to heat exercise. At high temperatures‚ the body cools itself largely through evaporation of sweat. When humid‚ this mechanism does not work properly. Body loses a electrolytes. When this is accompanied by an inadequate replacement of
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Early Detection of Clinical Change in Condition Nursing Clinical Objective Assessment and Recognition using SBAR communication Initiative‚ and Immediate Activation of RRT/EMT. Patient and family can also alert the rapid response team if indicated. Rapid Response Team Responsibilities Clinical Indicators for Activating RRT. Complications. Research shows that unexpected cardiopulmonary arrest and deaths in hospitals are preceded by a 6 ½ hours of warning signs‚ subtle changes‚ and signs of clinical
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Having the right tools with the right training is key to ensuring the best outcome. I learned this lesson early in life from my father who constantly sought ways to improve himself and became a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry. As an EMT‚ his example proved to be a valuable example and was the foundation of my pursuit in medicine and ultimately motivated me to become an Emergency Medicine Physician. It is with this foundation and inspiration that I am applying as a future ultrasound
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meaning‚ it will wreak havoc. Life doesn’t mean much of anything if I’m not loving‚ caring‚ serving‚ and helping others. Before I decided on a career in nursing‚ I entertained so many careers including becoming a counselor‚ doctor‚ missionary‚ lawyer‚ EMT‚ chiropractor‚ politician‚ alternative medicine Practioner‚ and a teacher. It’s funny because all of these careers were said on the website to be good choices for INFJ’s. I think my decision upon nursing was the right one. I know it will bring me the
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about 4 minutes to explain how the students couldn’t crawl down the mountain‚ light a fire‚ or eat each other to survive. By taking away all of their options all they were left with was the instructions‚ texting the 5 hints to your location to the EMTs. I haven’t quite found my balance between being too ridged (do this‚ do that‚ drill sergeant like) and being too soft (allowing the students to go through every possible way they can get around my instructions). At the moment I feel like I’ve got things
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person entering information‚ are then required to access the patient’s record. Different personnel have permission to only access and/or modify the record‚ based on their particular job description. Besides identification data‚ all Medical Personnel (EMTs/Paramedics‚ Nurses‚ Physicians) who access the chart can enter Past Medical History‚ Past Surgical History‚ Medications‚ Allergies‚ Social History‚ as well as the Presenting Complaint and Vital Signs that were measured. The record reflects who entered/modified
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of CPR provided the foundation on which the concepts of advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)‚ and subsequently EMS systems‚ could be built. The result has been EMS systems designed to enhance the "chain of survival." The first nationally recognized EMT curriculum was published in 1969. Shortly thereafter paramedic education began‚ but training focused heavily on cardiac care and cardiac arrest resuscitation‚ almost to the exclusion of other problems. Training standards and certification requirements
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coach of the team but rather‚ the coach of me. He would spend countless hours outside of practice in the backyard helping me hone my skills. Yes‚ there were many times he couldn’t spend time with me because of his heavy workload helping others being an EMT and a volunteer firefighter. When I was younger this bugged me especially because I didn’t really understand that concept. But‚ he always found a way to make me laugh and I always was able to make him laugh‚ that was when we were together. When we
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Oklahoma being the 18th largest state in the US has large vast amount of nursing homes‚ hospitals‚ Dialysis and Hospice care facilities. There are 308 Certified nursing homes state wide‚ 160 hospital states wide‚ 60 dialysis facilities state wide‚ and 53 hospice facilities state wide. The market size to providing services and obtaining local contracts with each healthcare facilities wholesome. However‚ being a private ambulance services there would be no Market share to pay and entire ownership
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