Re: D-Sticks As A Baseline Vital Sign pre-hospital blood

[Guest guest]

after  13 years as a medic i finally got someone 2 the hospital to ADMIT in a

meeting why they don't like to use pre-hospital blood... the real reason was

" they can't charge for drawing it "

jim davis

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>>>>> While I don't recall it ever being mandated by protocol, it has always

been my practice to do a D-stick on every patient unless emergency interventions

and time prevented it. I recognize that sometimes your hands are so full just

keeping the patient alive with airway and other mandatory interventions that you

don't have enough hands to do it. But even in codes, I have always tried to do

it if there is enough personpower. We don't hear much about hypoglycemia's role

in cardiac arrest, but I have had some patients who arrested and were seriously

hypoglycemic. Also hyperglycemic.

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