Wee Woo: a blog about EMS
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Trachs
My Trach Wake Up Call As EMS providers, every now and then we’ll run a call that will shine a light on how little we know about some condition. This is the unfortunate fact of working in a field in which you can not know everything. I recently ran a call like that where a […]
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Hypocalcemia and the Heart
How does the heart beat? Every normal heartbeat begins with a specialized cluster of cells in the top right of the heart, called the SA node, generating an electrical impulse. This SA node is the pacemaker of the heart and generates this impulse 60-100 times per second under normal conditions. This impulse proceeds to spread […]