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EMT/Paramedic Tips & Tricks

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  • 28-01-2014 7:44pm
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    McGc
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    I'm looking for genuine tips and tricks of the trade ie Improvisation ideas for extrication, splinting, boarding etc... Anything that you've picked up along the way that they wouldn't necessarily teach you as a skill but is genius and we should all be doing it.
    Any nifty ways of using a sphyg & BP cuff, wound management.....anything really! Thanks :)


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    antichrist
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭antichrist


    This kinda stuff is picked up as you go along on the road....are you in HSE/DFB?


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    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Turn your sphygmomanometer upside down. Stops the tubes rubbing on the steth when taking a BP.


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    McGc
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭McGc


    antichrist wrote: »
    This kinda stuff is picked up as you go along on the road....are you in HSE/DFB?

    I'm in the privates! I'm only asking to maybe get someone to share they're experiences and maybe pick up a few things
    W


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    truebluesac
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭truebluesac


    Join a voulantary unit . They have years of experance with their older members and can show you a few things . Dont get caught up on "rank or level " some of the billy basics have years on ya and come from a time when you where lucky to have triangular bandages never mind and ambo or equipment


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    emmet the rover
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭emmet the rover


    truebluesac wrote: »
    Join a voulantary unit . They have years of experance with their older members and can show you a few things . Dont get caught up on "rank or level " some of the billy basics have years on ya and come from a time when you where lucky to have triangular bandages never mind and ambo or equipment

    i never realized the range of uses for a triangular bandage until i joined the order of Malta.


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