Maybe its just the mucous living in my throat or the annoying cough but last night's lecture on, you guessed it, respiratory distress made me phase out a little.
The 3 COPD conditions, are for those who don't know what Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder, Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, and Asthma. (Sorry for any EMS'ers reading this i have this up for non medical family members too)
Basically the whole point of the lecture was to reinforce getting a good set of baseline vitals and going through your SAMPLE and OPQRST very very well. The similarity of presentation between some respiratory distress cases and cardiac is eerily similar.
But our instructor is great, made everything really funny, well as funny as it can be. Shared stories about stabbing yoruself in the thumb with an epipen, Naked men on diabetic rampages, and something about how fat people and needles don't mix.
Well sorry for the lack of interesting info lately, its been a rather slow period.
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