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Basic881239
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Just thought Id post a bit of my expertise in things that may have a healthy amount of questions. The following is a short list, along with an explanation.

-Emergency services (especially in Massachusetts) This includes what happens when you dial 911, the process involved in getting an Ambulance (Im an EMT), fire/rescue and/or police
-Emergency medicine - what EMTs and Doctors in the ER are doing/looking for, including medical terminology, technology and various tests that go on.
-What happens in an MCI (multiple casualty incident, such as a terrorist attack, chemical leak, natural disasters, etc.)
-Anything emergency really...
-Nuclear history, especially when dealing with the 1945 bombings over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Those are just some of my specialties. Medicine is really where its at, but I also dabble in translation and language, history, fire arms, military, anatomy/physiology, pathology, survivalism.

Just offering what I can.

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I'm rather well versed in psychological issues and mental illness, as well as addiction, recovery, and therapy.

My mother is a PHD, I suffer from a few acute mental illnesses ( and one major one), and I was a RASAC for 3 years.

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Basic881239 wrote:
Just thought Id post a bit of my expertise in things that may have a healthy amount of questions. The following is a short list, along with an explanation.

-Emergency services (especially in Massachusetts) This includes what happens when you dial 911, the process involved in getting an Ambulance (Im an EMT), fire/rescue and/or police
-Emergency medicine - what EMTs and Doctors in the ER are doing/looking for, including medical terminology, technology and various tests that go on.
-What happens in an MCI (multiple casualty incident, such as a terrorist attack, chemical leak, natural disasters, etc.)
-Anything emergency really...
-Nuclear history, especially when dealing with the 1945 bombings over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Those are just some of my specialties. Medicine is really where its at, but I also dabble in translation and language, history, fire arms, military, anatomy/physiology, pathology, survivalism.

Just offering what I can.


Do they still name bombs? Like Fatman and Little Boy and Tzar Bomba and whatnot? Or is there just to many of them and they just designate them with numbers and letters, like they do with stars?
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It's supposedly illegal under UN law to produce new nuclear weapons. Fat man, little boy and tzar bombs were the first of their kind, and so they earned unique names. After mass production was incorporated one would see things like bomb m375 or something almost random, just a unit in a batch. Now you see terrorist use of weapons, like the dirty bomb. Each might be unique cause of the amount of conventional explosives involved, but they all serve the same purpose. I imagine the next "gadget" (first ever nuclear weapon, Los alamos new Mexico Trinity testing grounds) will be something involving dark matter or something. We shall see

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Ok, I have two scenarios for you that I've included in my novels that I've mostly just researched via googling, so perhaps asking someone directly would be wise to confirm if I did it right:

Scenario 1: 15 year old male overdosed on valium and alcohol found unconscious but breathing in his room. His older brother calls 911. During 911 call he stops breathing. Another person who is there starts CPR. By the time the ambulance arrives, his heart has stopped. This ends with 15 year old surviving in the end (though not stable until he gets to the hospital). What does the 911 caller tell them to do? What do the paramedics do when they get there? This is told from the POV of the older brother, who then follows the ambulance to the hospital, so any details on what he would be told and when would be useful too.

Scenario 2: 18 year old male epileptic falls down on the sidewalk outside his apartment building and has a seizure. Bystander calls 911. Paramedics arrive after he recovers from the seizure. He has a scrape on his head and elbow, but nothing serious and is mostly coherent. He does not want to go to the hospital. What do the paramedics do/say?

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Answer sent via PM. Anyone else wants the answers let me know.

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What do you do when you arrive somewhere and the person has injured themselves on purpose ( not suicide or an attempt ) but like fallen down stairs or cut there hand in the kitchen for example.

Do you call them on it. Treat them differently for whatever reason, who do you inform if you have a feeling they hurt themselves on purpose(there family, theyre spouse or the police or there doctor or the crazy house?

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Every patient is treated the same as if you've never seen them before in your life. In the case of a self harming individual, you would notify the recieving hospital of the findings. Generally whn this happens it is either si (suicidal ideation) or attention thriving. Either case doesn't matter for rescue personell. First priority is scene safety and then treat all life threatening injuries or illness. The psych docs will determine the nature of self harm. That's why they get paid more.

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Maybe you can help me with this question. It's in the battlefield medic area. A friend's dad told me a story from when he was in Vietnam. A grenade went off in close proximity to him (within 10ft). He says it rendered him unconscious to the point the medics thought he was dead and later re awoke in a body bag on the copper ride out. I was wondering if being rendered unconscious and/or going into shock could fool a medic into thinking you are DOA?

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All emergency medical personnel are taught how to triage. Basically, if there are a number of dead or dieing you dont spend time on those who are already dead, you focus more on those who are still breathing. Its very possible that when the medic got to him they didnt find a strong pulse or couldnt see/hear breathing or signs of life. There for, he is labled KIA and bagged for transport asap, to allow better access to those who can use the help of a medic. Wasting time on a dead body means another almost dead patient might die, leaving you with two dead bodies. Then three, and then four depending on how much time you waste on the first and second dead guy. We do this at major car accidents, explosions, fires, anything where there are multiple casualties and/or dead people.

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