CPR Metronomes
"How Deep is Your Love?" At least 2" of chest compression is recommended during CPR. The Bee Gees will also help you keep time with this popular song, at 103 bpm.
What is Stayin' Alive
Pushing one of these buttons will alert Clermont PD. (We only have 2 in the department.)
What is the panic button
Baseball players may find themselves wearing this type of sling -- if you can figure out how to apply it, that is.
What is a Sling and Swathe
PPV
What is Positive Pressure Ventilation
This 1998 comedy-drama follows the story of a man, suffering from depression, who decides to become a doctor and treat his patients using humor and laughter.
What is Patch Adams
Gloria Gaynor is full of positivity with this song, pumping strong at 119 bpm. Seasoned nurses may even use the lyrics to describe how they felt during their first code. "At first I was afraid, I was petrified."
What is I Will Survive.
Yelling, use of profanity, and refusing to cooperate align with this level of security response.
What is Level 2.
You'll hang up your snow-skis after suffering an injury to your ulnar collateral ligament and find yourself wearing this type of splint. "Thumbs Up, Dude!"
What is a Thumb Spica
STEMI
What is ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction
This 1998 movie, rated PG, is a kid-friendly story of a doctor who gets back his childhood ability to talk to animals.
What is Dr. Dolittle
You'll feel "Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy" if you can compress to this song, at 115 bpm. (It will make you want you want to call the Police and the Fireman, too!)
What is Uptown Funk
Attending huddles is one way for the communication gaps and working relationships to improve between security and the ED. We want to feel protected by people we know and trust. A sense of 'Ohana', which means this.
What is family
Trying to skateboard in your mid 30's will earn you a distal radius fracture of the wrist... And this type of splint. (Sweet like Southern tea!)
What is Sugar Tong
This law says anyone who presents to an emergency department requesting treatment is entitled to a medical screening exam -- no matter their race, gender, immigration status, or ability to pay.
What is EMTALA
What is Contagion
Ladies! High quality CPR at a tempo of 100bpm to this song, will have your "man wanting to sing Spanish". Como se llama, bonita?
What is Hips Don't Lie (Shakira)
If a patient has a history of violence or aggression, the patient Storyboard in EPIC will be this color.
What is Magenta
"You got your ankles broke!" You will want to retire your Iverson's when your ankle decides to do its own crossover -- and you'll also be sporting this. (It goes on the back.)
What is a Posterior Short Leg Splint
IO
What is Intraosseous
Taking an ER hostage in this 2002 film, Denzel Washington is only trying to save his son in need of a life-saving transplant.
What is John Q
If closed-loop communication was a shape, it would be the one Post Malone sings about. Don't let the appropriate CPR rate of 100-120 "run away" from you, as you try to keep up with this song at 120 bpm.
What is Circles
"Run, fight, or hide" are your 3 options when dealing with an active shooter -- identified by this emergency code color.
What is Silver.
You'll be breaking the first rule of Fight Club when you have to explain to the doctor how you fractured your fifth metacarpal. Let the 'UGS' begin...
What is Ulnar Gutter Splint
ORIF
What is Open Reduction and Internal Fixation
As an illicit romance "Blooms", this 2012 thriller/comedy is about a physician who goes to the extremes to remain on the service of a female patient with a kidney disorder.
What is The Good Doctor (with Orlando Bloom)