tangent4ronpaul
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GF, try open office. it saves automatically for you. Plus it's free.
AME3, about P-school... I'd advise against.
The only upside is that your medical director is more likely to Rx you meds. There are many down sides. For starters, while there are a couple of programs where you go straight through, most states demand that you get your EMT first, then work for 1-2 years in the field and then get your medical directors sign off before you are allowed to attend. Second, if you go through this school on the civi side, the concentration will be on cardiac care. In austere situations, these people die. There is also an emphasis on a "golden hour" - primarily from a trauma situation. The assumption that the person will end up in an advanced medical facility shortly. This isn't the case in a TSHTF situation. You won't be taught long term care or the effects of your interventions and needed recovery from such. As one example, I know of one program that teaches how to do a C-Section. To put it bluntly, if you deliver a child this way ("Amateur C-Section") every future child she has will have to be delivered the same way. Consider C-Collars. Totally worthless if you don't have a X-Ray capability and are able to put someone in a halo. What about IV fluids? Useful for a lifeline, but if a person is bleeding out, their veins are going to be pushing saline and no O2 in short order, if you can't deliver them to a surgical facility or do that yourself. HOWEVER! - 500cc's can keep them alive, or rather their brain, long enough to establish a sterile field and perform an intervention that will save their life - but also land you in jail for performing medicine without a license - in this country. BP cuffs are over rated. You can tell if a pt is going south by comparing pulses at various locations though they are useful for pressure irrigation around a IV bag to clean out a wound and you can Dx a fracture or broken bone with a tuning fork and a stethoscope.
There are SHTF and relief/missionary med classes available that will serve you much better, as the assumption is "you're it"... Other classes focus on expeditions, wilderness medicine, and "medical person in charge" for ships. Massively delayed to no terminal care available. That's the kind of class you want. They tend to run 3 days to a month, and they are long days. Going through EMT then P-School is a minimum of 2 years.
It's hard to find a doc that will Rx you drugs - but not impossible. We live in one of the most repressive countries in the worlds as to getting meds. As to team members, look for MD's, PA's and NP's.
-t
AME3, about P-school... I'd advise against.
The only upside is that your medical director is more likely to Rx you meds. There are many down sides. For starters, while there are a couple of programs where you go straight through, most states demand that you get your EMT first, then work for 1-2 years in the field and then get your medical directors sign off before you are allowed to attend. Second, if you go through this school on the civi side, the concentration will be on cardiac care. In austere situations, these people die. There is also an emphasis on a "golden hour" - primarily from a trauma situation. The assumption that the person will end up in an advanced medical facility shortly. This isn't the case in a TSHTF situation. You won't be taught long term care or the effects of your interventions and needed recovery from such. As one example, I know of one program that teaches how to do a C-Section. To put it bluntly, if you deliver a child this way ("Amateur C-Section") every future child she has will have to be delivered the same way. Consider C-Collars. Totally worthless if you don't have a X-Ray capability and are able to put someone in a halo. What about IV fluids? Useful for a lifeline, but if a person is bleeding out, their veins are going to be pushing saline and no O2 in short order, if you can't deliver them to a surgical facility or do that yourself. HOWEVER! - 500cc's can keep them alive, or rather their brain, long enough to establish a sterile field and perform an intervention that will save their life - but also land you in jail for performing medicine without a license - in this country. BP cuffs are over rated. You can tell if a pt is going south by comparing pulses at various locations though they are useful for pressure irrigation around a IV bag to clean out a wound and you can Dx a fracture or broken bone with a tuning fork and a stethoscope.
There are SHTF and relief/missionary med classes available that will serve you much better, as the assumption is "you're it"... Other classes focus on expeditions, wilderness medicine, and "medical person in charge" for ships. Massively delayed to no terminal care available. That's the kind of class you want. They tend to run 3 days to a month, and they are long days. Going through EMT then P-School is a minimum of 2 years.
It's hard to find a doc that will Rx you drugs - but not impossible. We live in one of the most repressive countries in the worlds as to getting meds. As to team members, look for MD's, PA's and NP's.
-t
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