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	<title>Paramedic Blogger &#187; Health</title>
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	<description>Stories, comments and Frustrations of an NHS Student Ambulance Paramedic</description>
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		<title>Whats your Diagnosis?</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/whats-your-diagnosis</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently seen a patient that confused me, two of my colleagues and a number of ED Doctors, so what do you think is wrong with this patient&#8230;.?

&#8230;..responder on scene about 3 minutes ahead of you. &#8220;The patient is presenting with shortness of breath, bi-laterally bubbly chest sounds and maybe a wheeze.  I&#8217;m thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smash the Place Up</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/smash-the-place-up</link>
		<comments>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/smash-the-place-up#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emergency call to an old peoples home nearby, elderly male with alzeihmers, threatening to smash the place up&#8230;.

&#8230;what made them decide an ambulance would be a good resource to send???
We regularly get calls of this nature and they always call an ambulance, its not too disimilar to being called for someone that is intoxicated.
At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paediatrics, one job I couldn&#8217;t do!</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/education/paediatrics-one-job-i-couldnt-do</link>
		<comments>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/education/paediatrics-one-job-i-couldnt-do#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paramedic Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a while since my last post, however I have been doing my final set of clinical placements and am due back on the road this week.

One of my placements was on a Paediatric ward at a far away hospital.  It was during this placement that I realised that I couldn&#8217;t work on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here One Minute, Gone the Next!</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/here-one-minute-gone-the-next</link>
		<comments>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/here-one-minute-gone-the-next#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paramedic Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You were quick!&#8221; says the very pale looking man who answered the door.  He looked like the person that we were calling to see &#8211; a male in his 70&#8217;s who is complaining of shortness of breath with hemoptysis, hence the small amount of blood on his top lip coming from his nose and mouth.


I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sudden Realisation</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/a-sudden-realisation</link>
		<comments>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/a-sudden-realisation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had an Epiphany&#8230;.

a Sudden Realisation that I was going to be a Paramedic!
We were called to a nursing home to a male with a report BM of 1.8 (this is a low blood sugar level that could result in unconsciousness)&#8230;.

&#8230;on the way we were informed that we were being backed up by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carers Leave Patient on Floor for an Hour Illeagaly!</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/carers-leave-patient-on-floor-for-an-hour-illeagaly</link>
		<comments>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/ambulance/carers-leave-patient-on-floor-for-an-hour-illeagaly#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paramedic Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.paramedicblogger.com/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Carers Leave Patient on Floor for over an Hour Illegally!&#8221; now that would be an interesting headline in a news paper, although we know it will more likely be &#8220;Ambulance takes an Hour to attend to Terminally ill man!&#8221;&#8230;.
So why might we see a headline like this&#8230;..
I keep blogging about the inappropriate ways that people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you Choose Well&#8230;.?</title>
		<link>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/news/did-you-choose-well</link>
		<comments>http://www.paramedicblogger.com/news/did-you-choose-well#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have been some of the busiest shifts that I have ever worked and there is no sign of them letting up yet.

In more than one hospital in the same shift I heard receptionists having to educate the public and explain that Accident and Emergency was for Accidents and Emergencies and that [...]]]></description>
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