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Dear Friends -
This is a project near and dear to my heart! Every year there's a wonderful prom for teenagers and young adults with kidney disease. Everything at the 2010 Renal Teen Prom is FREE - gowns for the girls and ties for the boys are donated, dinner and party treats included, transportation is covered.
Long time survivor, Lori Hartwell, founder and president of RSN, glowed with happiness watching the teens dance, laugh, and make friends at last year's event. “That’s why I created the Renal Teen Prom,” she exclaimed. “I missed my own prom because of chronic kidney disease, which I have had since I was 2. I spent all my teenage years on dialysis. I know that one friend can make a difference, and we give these young people the chance to get to know others who are like them, walking in the same shoes.”
This is the 11th annual prom and I am so honored to help with planning it this year. Lori Hartwell and her team do a fabulous job! The theme is "Masquerade!"
Please send this info on to young kidney patients, friends and family. And if you'd like to donate, or live in the LA area and can drive a teen, please follow the link below.
rsnhope.org/programs/renal_teen_prom2.php
Jenna and her brother will also be volunteering again this year!
Please contact me if you'd like more information.
At the end of this course I will have learned a number of things. IV cannulation, chest decompression, needle cric, thrombolytic therapy.
And the ability not to drown.
Because up until now I've considered the concept of being underwater absolutely horrific. Underwater is where dead people are found. Dead, blue, bloated people.
Me? I'll stay pink and fat and dry. Thanks.
But the fact is that I WANT to be able to swim properly, I hate swimming "Like your granny" as someone once put it, my head and face arching out of the water. It's knackering and inefficient and makes going to the pool a bloody chore.
So this week, I decided I was going to conquer it.
Thanks to Stingray and Sensei who've taught me to breathe out through my nose when I submerge, who've shown me how long I CAN stay down there for and have taught me ways to build my confidence without sitting on the bottom of the pool watching the second hand tick by on my watch.
Everything culminated on Thursday night when Midge and Stingray showed me how to hang my feet on the side of the pool and hang upside down in the water. Pinching my nose tight to ensure I didn't irrigate my sinuses with chlorine, I sunk down slowly under the surface and stared around at this alien, wavy, underwater world.
I was fine. Not panicking, quite chilled in fact and highly entertained by how easy everything was.
And that's when I laughed.
See if you're trying not to drown?
Don't laugh underwater.
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Those of you who read my Twitter posts will know that my practical exam results came through and were just fine and dandy, thanks awfully.
So that's nice, too. :)
I have no angst for you, guys. Move right on along.
Jenna on dialysis in 2005 - 19 years old.
UPDATE: She received a kidney transplant from a kind stranger - Jan. 2007. A rejection episode has reduced her function and she'll eventually need a new kidney. Jenna's Caringbridge page
A Message Forum for kidney patients Click here
A site for Living Donors Click here
Our story: Los Angeles Times Dec. 30, 2006 Column One - by Alan Zarembo
read it here: articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/30/local/me-kidney30
UPDATE: As of Jan 2014 Jenna's transplant rejected and she is back on dialysis - please see her search for a kidney donor:
Some of the kit we were using in East Sussex Ambulance service in the mid-eighties. None too realistic training aids and a variety of defibrillator / monitors. I would usually use the CR 26 which was a fully manual defib with 12 lead ECG.
If you’re interested in medical training, you need to find the best course and provider so that you can get the experience and accreditation you need. But, with many courses available, it can be difficult to know where to start.
The first thing to consider is the type of medical training course to take. You probably already have an idea regarding this. From CPR training to vaccination training, the options are endless. Once you have decided what area to train in, you can then begin to narrow down your search. One thing you should never do is choose a course based merely on price or convenience.
When choosing a medical training provider, ensure that they have an excellent reputation in the industry. Take the time to read reviews left by medical professionals that have taken the course before. You also need to determine whether you want to take an on-site, open course, or online course.
Hopefully, you now have a better understanding of the different factors to consider when it comes to medical training. The importance of choosing a course and provider with care cannot be underestimated. After all, it impacts your entire career, so select wisely.
Click Here: ecgtraining.co.uk/venepuncture-and-cannulation-course.html
All of my current Code 3 models, all my own work - reflecting a number of Emergency vehicles used by the Scottish Ambulance Service, Seirbheis Ambaileans na h-Alba
Shown here are 2 PRU (Paramedic Response Unit) vehicles, utilising the Nissan Qashqai model by Oxford. PRU’s are utilised for a range of Emergency calls, including Immediately Life Threatening, and those that while being an Emergency, may be dealt with without requiring conveyance, such as Diabetic Hypo, Seizure (if diagnosed with seizure disorder) etc.
Some PRU’s are also designated “3RU” and are targeted at Cardiac Arrest calls specifically. These vehicles are equipped with AutoPulse or similar (I believe Lanarkshire use a different make) which is a machine which performs chest compressions, freeing up clinicians for airway management, cannulation, intraosseous access etc. Due to the experience of the Paramedic on such vehicles, they frequently take clinical lead using the “pit stop” approach used by LAS.
Other similar real life vehicles include those used by Paramedic Practitioners, Trauma Team and Advanced Paramedics (who have sonography capability, and so can pronounce life extinct in certain circumstances such as PEA).
Behind is a Ford Transit Driver Training Unit. These have been phased out and replaced by newer, smarter Mercedes versions, but the Ford type has a nostalgic link for me.
In the last row are the 2 Urgent Tier, and my own attempt at a Mercedes A&E unit (Ambaileans Èiginn)
- 5.7.2011 - 5:45am -
今日所有set BB block, 抽 BB 血都能百發百中！無打爆無辜B血管無浪費angiocatheter 嘅感覺實在太令人感動啦!!
100% success rate in all cannulation and blood taking today!! from tiny scrawny neonates, to sweaty obese infants, to screaming & swearing preschool kids! this is it, keep the engine going!!
- 2.7.2011 - 5:25am -
BB尋仇記 The revenge of the neonates
not one single yawn,
numerous babies poked,
one sketch done (in between the q4h blood gases, serum bilirubin, haematocrit and pre/post drug level, cannulation, CBC CRP)
- precisely what the babies wanna do right now.
goo leung 1 said "呢個houseman真係唔去瞓喎..."
goo leung 2 said "呢個houseman嘅adrenaline過高囉..."
Description(Physical Details): Telescoping set of three trocars with cannulas. Flat, teardrop-shaped handle with raised and indented finger grips and protective cap secures a stacked arrangement of three trocars screwed into cannulation tubes of decreasing size.
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Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection
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Cannulation is one of those essential skills in what we do. The ability to pour liquid into your patient's bloodstream means we can speed up or slow down their heartrate, depress their immune and nervous systems. We can knock people out and wake them up. Bulk up their blood vessels when they're running dry on the pavement.
It's a big deal.
Time was the only way to practice IV cannulation was on other students. But that was before the invention of the monstrosity pictured here. It's an arm, in a box, with a bag of 'blood' running through it. It bleeds when you stab it and has veins like the contours of a mountain range. Practicing on it makes me feel like I'm abusing Thing Addams.
The black coffin with silver clasps doesn't help either.
We spend the day being drilled by Benito on our Advanced Trauma Life Support - it feels like my old first aid days - Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing, Circulation then D(isability) and E(xposure/environment/evalutate). When I came out of my Techy course I was told "It doesn't matter what you know or don't know, as long as you can look at someone and decide if they're ill or not."
That snap decision is a major skill on our belts, so being made to slowly evaluate things now seems retrograde.
We're working slower, but deeper. Listening to lung fields, assessing not just "Are you breathing?" but "Are you breathing ENOUGH?". It's not enough to have a pulse, you've got to have it in certain places and know that when i vanishes from one place, it's no longer supplying oxygen to other organs. We learn the volumes of the body cavities - if you can tell one lung is full of blood, roughly how much blood does that mean has been lost from the circulation?
Bit by bit the methods become second nature, though we still mutter under our breaths as we perform the examinations, keeping ourselves right with a litany of memorised tactics.
Chinook Tactical Medical Module - Saline Lock (TMMTM-SL)
The TMMTM-SL contains the items needed for starting and securing a saline lock for quick and effective extremity venous cannulation. Vacuum packed in a resealable zip closure bag for easy access and storage.
Contents:
1 ChloraPrep Swab (for IV site)
1 Alcohol Swab (for Saline Lock)
1 Latex-Free Tourniquet
2 IV Catheter, 18 ga x 1-1/4"
1 Clave Saline Lock with Extension (Needleless)
1 Saline Lock with Extension (Needle)
1 Syringe, 10 ml
1 Needle, 18 ga x 1-1/2"
1 Tegaderm Dressing
2 oz.
6"x3.5"x1"
45*33cm
96G
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In the process of scratching my journal. I used a 18G cannulation needle (lying in the middle of the page). For those of you who are not from a medical background it's a massive needle used to insert IV ports. I also cannulated my journal.
Finished pages. On the left is a drawing I did of the heart and on the right is my scratched page and the IV port with a Tagaderm sitting over the top of it.
Sturdy bag with 2 carry handles - 34 x 21 x 8cm.
Red waterproof Cordura™ with reflective stripe.
Internal loops, pouches and wallets.
Twin zips opening on three sides.
£44.59 inc VAT
44*27cm
62gms
With alias of three leisure treasures. Integrating pillow, blinder and earplug in one product. Fit to create a comfortable and quiet small environment when taking a short rest in office or when being at home or travelling. The product is used as travel pillow or drive pillow.
This U-shape structure is based on body’s physiological needs.. It can comfort cervix and neck, adjust the sight line, lighten the fatigued of your low neced and eyes. Keep the body balance. And also can line the ancon or entrust the neck, by away of back rest. "The film valve" is our company's proprietany patant,huff by plastic cannulation to make you more comfortable. Cord alveolus is also our patant to prevent lost and can help you learn swimming.
Sturdy bag with 2 carry handles - 34 x 21 x 8cm.
Red waterproof Cordura™ with reflective stripe.
Internal loops, pouches and wallets.
Twin zips opening on three sides.
£44.59 inc VAT
Sturdy bag with 2 carry handles - 34 x 21 x 8cm.
Red waterproof Cordura™ with reflective stripe.
Internal loops, pouches and wallets.
Twin zips opening on three sides.
£44.59 inc VAT
The ARRC is an integral part of "Jigsaw", BP's innovative Rescue initiative for their North Sea platforms which will provide enhanced Rescue & Recovery arrangements. In an emergency, helicopters will be deployed from strategically located platforms with the ARRC acting as the marine element. Each ARRC will have a crew of six including a fully trained paramedic and is capable of operating in seas of 7 m significant wave height.
In the event of an emergency rescue, the ARRC has the facilities on board to house 21 survivors in comfort and to perform essential triage and basic life-saving initiatives including Cannulation, Intubation and Haemorrhage Control. In addition the ARRC has a clear aft deck area that enables a "Helivac" of seriously injured survivors to be completed in the severest of sea states.
Powered by twin 1000 hp CAT 18's linked to Hamilton 521 Waterjets and with the latest onboard Navigation & Ship control systems linked to Hi Visibility LCD displays she is capable, in continuous mode, of cruising at 30 kts. Top speed is currently commercially sensitive but dependent on loaded condition it is understood to be well in excess of 35 kts.
29.5*45cm
75GMS
The product is designed according to the human body engineering principles. It accessions a small pillow on formerly pillow. It can entrust cervix and line low necked, adjust the sight line, lighten the fatigued of your low neced and eyes.Keep the body balance.And also can line the ancon or entrust the neck,by away of back rest.
"The film valve" is our company proprietany patant, huff by plastic cannulation to make you paff or deffate more relax.Cord alveolus also our patant to prevent lost and can help you learn swimming.
IV Cannula also known as intravenous cannulation. It is used for intravenous administration of medication or infusions.