supwiggles

Great article guys.

Can I ask, why Flask and not Django? (Flask fan here btw)

We run our own internal PyPi server. Makes it super easy to install our own packages over Pip, as well as ensure that dependancies are nice and clean.

Every cardiac arrest that I attended ended in broken ribs.

I still get shivers thinking about the crepitus :)

Sorry, I should have clarified. It's late here, and I am tired.

The call was for a human, the 'doctor' who called it was a vet at the racecourse.

One of my paramedic instructors told me a pretty funny story.

Apparently they were on shift one Saturday afternoon, when a call came through for a Code 2 (Cardiac Arrest) at a local racecourse.

Anyway, it was about 15 minutes away so they took off in a hurry, all the while receiving notes on their terminal regarding the job. Apparently it went along the lines of this:

Initial: Unknown Age, Cardiac Arrest, Racecourse etc Update: CPR in Progress Update: Doctor has self accounced at scene. Update: Doctor has called patient as deceased. CPR ceased.

It took another 5 minutes for the paramedics to get to the racecourse, and they still unloaded their gear and made their way to the patient. When asking for the doctor, they found that it was actually the racecourse veterinarian who had made the call.

It is amazing how well morphine can work, and how utterly useless it can be at other times. I found it to be incredibly helpful during the AMI cases, especially for putting the patient as ease, especially when they understand the gravity of the STEMI that they are currently experiencing.

We went to a fractured tib/fib (Football injury) and we loaded him up with the maximum dose over the course of treatment (50 minutes or so) and it didn't even touch the sides.

Looking back we probably should have called for the IC guys and done some ketamine + realignment.

This +10. Out of the 11 out of hospital arrests that I went to as a Paramedic (in a 6 month period), only 1 of them survived.

Ironically, the one who survived was a prisoner who had cut his own throat. He had pretty much bled out by the time we got there, with a tiny little junctional on the monitor. Today he has 0 deficits, and it is like the event never occurred.