freeskywarp:

Succinylcholine Chloride: My black cloud knows no bounds

ambulancejockey:

ermedicine:

So yesterday my second patient of the day was a EMS Code Blue, presented in Aystole x10m of CPR. EMS gave x2 of vasopressin (Don’t ask my why because I was always taught that you only replace the first or second round of Epi with one dose of vasopressin) and that was it. We…

AHA doesn’t recommend vasopressin at all anymore. Just use epi.

Could be local protocol. The service I just left still uses drugs that are currently not recommended because their medical director is “old school”. 

I actually just think it was the individual EMS crew. I know the EMS director and she’s pretty up to date on her protocols. That’s actually the first EMS crew I’ve seen use vasopressin, especially two consecutive rounds of it.
  1. Date Posted Icon 10th August 2012
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    I actually just think it was the individual EMS crew. I know the EMS director and she’s pretty up to date on her...
  3. freeskywarp reblogged this from ambulancejockey and added:
    Could be local protocol. The service I just left still uses drugs that are currently not recommended because their...
  4. ambulancejockey reblogged this from freeskywarp and added:
    AHA doesn’t recommend vasopressin at all anymore. Just use epi.
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