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haztacmedic · 06-15-2005, 10:21

As an advanced life support provider, I see cardiac patients every shift period!
What is more important is providing bls and als interventions. There is nothing that listening to a heart sound will do to change what you do in the prehospital enviroment . If you really want to appear glamourous and use that sexy stethoscope Listen to lung sounds and take blood pressures....if you must listen to heart sounds...listent to an unresponsive, apneic and otherwise pulseless patient to see if he has no heart sounds at all as a way to confirm death.
Good Luck!
somedic

06-15-2005, 10:21	#4
haztacmedic Auxiliary Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 79	Dont waste time! As an advanced life support provider, I see cardiac patients every shift period! What is more important is providing bls and als interventions. There is nothing that listening to a heart sound will do to change what you do in the prehospital enviroment . If you really want to appear glamourous and use that sexy stethoscope Listen to lung sounds and take blood pressures....if you must listen to heart sounds...listent to an unresponsive, apneic and otherwise pulseless patient to see if he has no heart sounds at all as a way to confirm death. Good Luck! somedic
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