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[mustela]

It seems somehow wrong that a course on how to resuscitate dead and dying children and infants is called "PALS."

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[coronaborealis]

and PEPP also.

"let's be PEPPy with our PALS, the dying children!"

can't you see that as a nice catch-your-attention advertising campaign slogan?? ;)

[jennekirby]

you make me giggle inappropriately. I feel like a terrible person now.

[pneumothorax_]

Are you guys doing PALS or PEPP??

I just did my recert for PEPP ALS...the whole "what's the PAT" thing gets annoying after a few minutes.

I like PEPP better just because it has more medical and trauma stuff, with less cardiac. It just seems more practical to me.

I'm excited, now with our Intro and Cardiac quarters out of the way, and PEPP being finished, we get to start into medical. Then, next quarter is BTLS and our field time doubles..Booo...

[mustela]

We're doing PALS, and we actually did PHTLS too, so I've got the opposite set of courses from y'all.

Have you done ACLS yet? We're going to wait until the new version comes out, which is cool, but it also means we'll be most of the way through our clinicals before we get ACLS.

Medical is the real fun stuff. Trauma is shiny, but not as complex, so every medic has told me that medical's where you're really challenged.

[pneumothorax_]

Yeah, we just certified..the new version came out like 3 days before we tested. Next quarter we're doing the refresher course so that way we have the old version ACLS card, but we'll be familiar with the new guidelines.

[scarysecrets]

What? If you resuscitate a dying kid, I'm pretty sure they'll be your pal, right? And you can consider yourself their pal? So that would make you both PALS? What's the problem here?

Okay, maybe I'm reaching too hard.