Vital Signs

How to take and interpret vital signs such as pulse, respirations, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, blood glucose, and ETCO2.

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  • @Hershy_18
    @Hershy_184 жыл бұрын

    You should be giving a EMT class... I'll pay!

  • @ricktyricktywrecked5777

    @ricktyricktywrecked5777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Instructors male more than most paramedics honestly.

  • @Ninja-qm8bp

    @Ninja-qm8bp

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's almost what he's doing. Providing first aid skills for lay people and experienced responders. Even as an EMT, I still enjoy watching his videos!

  • @ziyuansim5090

    @ziyuansim5090

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ricktyricktywrecked5777 Make* ?

  • @marcoslotero1997

    @marcoslotero1997

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you

  • @baddgerpaw

    @baddgerpaw

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ziyuansim5090 no he meant mail

  • @ambulance_boy3834
    @ambulance_boy38344 жыл бұрын

    Half a second is a good time frame to feel for a pulse because it gives you time to pick up on any arrhythmias.

  • @HUNTER-ve3iw
    @HUNTER-ve3iw4 жыл бұрын

    I legit knew everything here already but I still watched just because I enjoy your content, keep up the great work!

  • @TheDoctor1225

    @TheDoctor1225

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. He presents it in a clear manner and still encourages you to use your brains instead of acting like a robot who blindly follows numbers and rules. Treat the patient. not the numbers.

  • @hurricanejeffries4606
    @hurricanejeffries46063 жыл бұрын

    I have a Type1 diabetic son and he passed out on us recently. It was super scary and this time his blood sugars were steady at 146. Anyway. It was scary enough that I am going to emt school and paramedics training after that. I may never work a rig but I will be able to save my family if something like that happens again. At least I will know how to help til I can get him to a hospital. Your site was super Informative. Thank you!!!

  • @philfortin5995
    @philfortin59954 жыл бұрын

    I remember my EMT training from the 90s as a Cop. Vitals was an insanely info overload portion. Cool video, thanks.

  • @curtisthomason2234
    @curtisthomason22344 жыл бұрын

    Thank You, these videos are so incredibly helpful. I am taking a fast track EMT course. These are the videos I have been looking for. This is way more entertaining to watch than those power point videos floating around. Great videography, sound, demonstrations, easy to understand, and a handsome guy teaching it all. This is pure gold! ❤

  • @bradknowles3938
    @bradknowles39384 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love the info you put out Sam! I'm always learning something new

  • @EggyMcLove
    @EggyMcLove4 жыл бұрын

    Forwarding this video to my trainees. Good job Sam.

  • @ChrisJohnson-hk6es
    @ChrisJohnson-hk6es Жыл бұрын

    New to this channel. Round of applause! This is excellent information. Thank you!

  • @conwayyury5578
    @conwayyury55782 жыл бұрын

    i come from a aircraft engineering background. I have taken lots of Red Cross first aid classes, PADI dive Rescurer, Wilderness first Aid. I do try to learn as much as I can from your videos. I am taken aback, as to the complete new information I did not ever realize of what it takes in your industry! Thank-you for posting and I have subscribed! I truly would love to learn more and help another human being or coworker in medical distress.

  • @barryg4927

    @barryg4927

    2 ай бұрын

    Prep medic is fantastic! Check out skinny medic and the paramedic coach as well . 💯

  • @TravisWebster
    @TravisWebster4 жыл бұрын

    Been following for a while now. Glad you provide a ton of information. I just started EMT school this week and always find your videos helpful. Thank you for what you do!

  • @Zoe-nc9oq
    @Zoe-nc9oq4 жыл бұрын

    You are my inspiration to continue pushing myself to be the best care provider I can out in the field. Thanks for your time

  • @douglastrujillo8317
    @douglastrujillo83174 жыл бұрын

    This couldn’t have come at a better time! I’m in EMT school and we are covering vitals! Thanks for the personal insight!

  • @jctedsap
    @jctedsap Жыл бұрын

    This is the best instruction for checking blood pressure I have ever heard. I am subscribing.

  • @DukeTrana
    @DukeTrana2 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the best videos on this topic. Very well done. Clear and concise.

  • @Hal-Robinson
    @Hal-Robinson4 жыл бұрын

    I learned a lot of stuff on this video I'm the planning section chief or a county search and rescue in Florida so although I don't do medical a lot of my coworkers are EMTs and paramedics sometimes I am on calls with them so it's good for me to understand what they do.

  • @maritzafigueiras8432
    @maritzafigueiras84324 жыл бұрын

    You make great videos! Thank you for this one!

  • @MrDeath2iPod
    @MrDeath2iPod4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video! I’m currently just starting in the nursing field and planning to enlist after I’m done, I just wanted to say your videos are really helpful. Keep up the great work!

  • @TheDoctor1225
    @TheDoctor12253 жыл бұрын

    One of the things I like the best about your videos is the fact that you continually reinforce the fact that we need to interpret the results we get/find/see instead of robotically saying "105 bpm. They MUST be suffering from tachycardia" or the like.

  • @zenerworks7553
    @zenerworks75534 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow didn't realize this was uploaded today, I was watching a covid-19 video about the finger oxygen saturated things and became interested in understanding vitals

  • @Badger.008
    @Badger.0083 жыл бұрын

    Watching theses videos while in EMT B school helped out a lot! Thanks 👍

  • @jayferraro4408
    @jayferraro44083 жыл бұрын

    Sam - you rock! Just finished my EMT-B an on to Paramed and this is better content and presentation than any lecture by any of our instructors.... THANK YOU for the contribution to making us all better!

  • @engineco.1494
    @engineco.14942 жыл бұрын

    Great Channel, practice makes perfect, when I'm off the job i periodically take my wife and kids vital signs, O2 and BP, it also makes for a little family fun teaching them as well.

  • @alexr1101
    @alexr11014 жыл бұрын

    Respirations are always 16, always.

  • @PrepMedic

    @PrepMedic

    4 жыл бұрын

    god is watching 😂

  • @GibbyGuyGo

    @GibbyGuyGo

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was going to comment this 😂

  • @w0oties

    @w0oties

    4 жыл бұрын

    R/F @ 18.

  • @Ninja-qm8bp

    @Ninja-qm8bp

    4 жыл бұрын

    So true 😂

  • @wholeNwon

    @wholeNwon

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or always 20.

  • @mothwaltz4163
    @mothwaltz4163 Жыл бұрын

    Hi! Thank you for the awesome and useful video!

  • @_Kevo
    @_Kevo4 жыл бұрын

    Literally watch just because you're good at making these videos and explaining things lol. You should do more of pediatric vitals as well, maybe some ALS assist stuff, etc. Would help the new EMT's coming into the job for sure.

  • @krymsonuchiha14
    @krymsonuchiha144 жыл бұрын

    This is great thank you!!! I cannot afford much and cannot physically work as an EMT since I have Fibromyalgia. I will be taking a first responder course at some point, but after I move. This is really helpful since I live currently with people who have hypertension.

  • @cristiangarcia6149
    @cristiangarcia61494 жыл бұрын

    You’re videos are really helpful thank you

  • @CosmicCollaterals17
    @CosmicCollaterals172 жыл бұрын

    Im Just a lifeguard, and this video explains vital signs better than any of the instructors ive had

  • @kaydenlillie2248
    @kaydenlillie22484 жыл бұрын

    Good video and good information

  • @roland.j.ruttledge
    @roland.j.ruttledge2 жыл бұрын

    Informative, as ever, many thanks.

  • @apollo3396
    @apollo33963 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic! succinct, easy to understand

  • @crowmancaveman2gen-xer280
    @crowmancaveman2gen-xer2804 жыл бұрын

    When I extern at a urgent care, the office manager was a paramedic and 68w, he wouldnt let me cut no corners with vital and he would ban me from using a electronic blood pressure cuff. To this day I can take blood pressures in the dark it helped me alot when I collected blood at American red cross cause I would work in places where power would go out. That dude taught me cool stuff 🤣😂 more then what I learned at medical assisting school I went to

  • @zachbunch8701

    @zachbunch8701

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear it! I'm looking at the 68W right now.

  • @sarahwitter2548

    @sarahwitter2548

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bdogg20101 Totally agree! I’m externing as an MA currently and the doctor prefers the electric BP machine but if the machine is acting up which it does, I take it manually! I personally prefer manual myself.

  • @TheDoctor1225

    @TheDoctor1225

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was blessed, when I volunteered with our local ambulance corps at a CFR and then EMT, to have worked with a paramedic who insisted on the same. Electronics were fine for monitoring in the ambulance while doing other interventions or when doing a standard transport, but she wanted at least 1 if not more manual BP's on a patient. To this day, even when serving as a medical assistant or as a volunteer medical presence at events, I have my own BP cuff and take manual measurements. She was a marvelous partner, and to this day is a great friend and I learned a lot from her. Sounds like we had very similar experiences, Crowman.

  • @TheDoctor1225

    @TheDoctor1225

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sarahwitter2548 I'm too old school, myself. Used to "argue" with one of my professors (who was a doctor and had a great sense of humor) when I was getting my degree as a medical assistant that I was like Bones from the original Star Trek - didn't trust machines and didn't like them :) "It's a blasted MACHINE, Spock! You can't argue with a machine!" Good times.

  • @media6969

    @media6969

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you take blood pressure in the dark?? 😅

  • @Turbo_Tractors
    @Turbo_Tractors4 жыл бұрын

    I learn something from you everyday.

  • @therealWowThatsAwesome
    @therealWowThatsAwesome3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making these videos!

  • @pauliechilds4087
    @pauliechilds40872 жыл бұрын

    Excellent videos and explanations. You explain with brevity that is refreshing in reteaching and for revision. Highly recommend your videos for the contract security sector. FREC / FPOS trained guys . Respect from the UK.

  • @mikeneale2459
    @mikeneale24593 жыл бұрын

    EXCELLENT! Thank you.

  • @anabellefernandez4586
    @anabellefernandez45864 жыл бұрын

    This really help me a lot 😍😍 during my caregiving schooling. Thank you

  • @bradalan7188
    @bradalan71884 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the good work!

  • @TheRECKLESSinWA
    @TheRECKLESSinWA4 жыл бұрын

    Huge thanks I took notes on the whole video

  • @drizzycarlos8397
    @drizzycarlos83974 жыл бұрын

    I literally have to take my CNA state test and I was never really good at this. So this helped

  • @boaderpatroller07
    @boaderpatroller073 жыл бұрын

    Great job on your videos

  • @backpackprepper6658
    @backpackprepper66584 жыл бұрын

    Pretty useful info as usual, thnx bro😎👊

  • @markkica8755
    @markkica87554 жыл бұрын

    Thank You for providing very useful information.

  • @shanileestaples8577
    @shanileestaples85774 жыл бұрын

    Awesome explanation you should become a teacher. Thank you for the refresher.

  • @blessingsithole8847
    @blessingsithole88473 жыл бұрын

    very informative watching from south africa

  • @Jakebigred1PL
    @Jakebigred1PL3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Sam. Thank's a lot for this basic video because i am a paramedic from Poland and it was very helpful, to learn engilsch version of the vital signs. I'v just finisch NAEMT TCCC Instructor course and i saw there my lack of knowlage in this area. Keep Youtubing - you are one of my main paremedic englisch school :) Best regards from Poland and maby when i visit US there will be chance to meet.

  • @randyrowett7998
    @randyrowett7998 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent info video

  • @kev9193
    @kev91933 жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see the Similärstes and differences to what ive Learned here in Germany in Paramedic class

  • @kylesullivan8052
    @kylesullivan80524 жыл бұрын

    Would love a video on how to best handle diabetic emergencies! Glucagon just got added to our protocols so some info on that would be awesome too!

  • @lindalidestri3109
    @lindalidestri31093 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff

  • @minhaaj
    @minhaaj4 жыл бұрын

    i was looking for that for ages!

  • @combatmidwife
    @combatmidwife3 жыл бұрын

    Great video Sam.

  • @belle-
    @belle-3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much 🙏🏻

  • @markkusiltanen1155
    @markkusiltanen11554 жыл бұрын

    Wow! 6 dislikes only? Dude, you're recordly best medic youtuber!

  • @MM-iy9xu
    @MM-iy9xu3 жыл бұрын

    Any recommendations on price point and brands of your tools? Very well presented Sam! Thanks!!

  • @lateo74
    @lateo74 Жыл бұрын

    great basics

  • @chuthita
    @chuthita4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you 💙

  • @heavy_duty4158
    @heavy_duty41584 жыл бұрын

    Your got me to the ems explorer program

  • @justrafe
    @justrafe3 жыл бұрын

    Proper good that

  • @mondelinejean5017
    @mondelinejean50173 жыл бұрын

    Best video

  • @traceurpastor
    @traceurpastor3 жыл бұрын

    i don´t speak english, your blood pressure cuff have a sign that indicates where the artery goes. good video, greetings from Chile

  • @christophersayles5888
    @christophersayles58884 жыл бұрын

    Please could you recommend a good pulse oximeter that you use, thank you. Great videos, please keep up the great work

  • @amybrown1161
    @amybrown11614 жыл бұрын

    This is so educational

  • @jacksonlim4827
    @jacksonlim48274 жыл бұрын

    Hello from Singapore! Would you be able to do some reviews on different stethoscope?

  • @CabrilloTV
    @CabrilloTV4 жыл бұрын

    Nice to get back basics, to many do not give vitals importance.

  • @l5mtf393
    @l5mtf3934 жыл бұрын

    nice studio you got there :)

  • @n0vellette
    @n0vellette4 жыл бұрын

    Canadian type 1 diabetic. When you said between 90 and 120, I freaked out, because I forgot you guys use different units of measurement! We go into hyperglycemic shock at 20 m/mol! I've actually experienced hyperglycemic shock, it's not a fun time

  • @merza4723
    @merza47234 жыл бұрын

    i love you so much thanks so much

  • @thibautvandendyck8193
    @thibautvandendyck81934 жыл бұрын

    Nice video ! :D

  • @bobbaldwin9186
    @bobbaldwin91864 жыл бұрын

    Another request for your recommendations on pulseox units from Amazon, please. The pulseox market has been flooded with cheap, inaccurate units designed for "workout" enthusiasts.

  • @captainrex3492
    @captainrex34924 жыл бұрын

    What’s ur intro and outro music? I’m obsessed with it 😂

  • @AlaskanFrontier1
    @AlaskanFrontier14 жыл бұрын

    As a note with Blood Pressure, you want to take the cuff up to about 180 mmHG and you want to place your stethoscope over the brachial artery. Which should be approximately diagonal to the radial artery.

  • @krisdeaglephotography4539

    @krisdeaglephotography4539

    3 ай бұрын

    Not 180. 30mmHg above your palpated reading. If you’ve palpated 100 as their systolic, you don’t need or want to bump it all the way to 180 and I know the patient won’t.

  • @dannichina1789
    @dannichina17893 жыл бұрын

    Can you please talk about how take vital signs in a moving vehicle?

  • @lincolnvinicius7752
    @lincolnvinicius77523 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Sir

  • @medic001465
    @medic0014653 жыл бұрын

    Can you review the Littmann Eko Core?

  • @noktturnal
    @noktturnal3 жыл бұрын

    Awsome content, can you do a vid on hemothorax vrs pneumothorax. Please

  • @mettahuttravels3183
    @mettahuttravels31834 жыл бұрын

    Yes Sam all good. We’ve developed Between The Flags. A colour coded document used in all hospitals to help staff detect abnormal observations & of course the big killer sepsis.

  • @kyriekyie
    @kyriekyie4 жыл бұрын

    Any tips improving taking BPs? I can barely hear sometimes. (fresh EMT graduate)

  • @MGoat76
    @MGoat764 жыл бұрын

    Would love to hear advice on what to look for for a good pulse oximeter? You mentioned amazon had some good ones (they have a lot) and also suggest caution. Can you expand on that or recommend specific models? Also, it would be nice to hear you correlate readings with shock and treatment. Would like to hear more than you provided. Good basic video though.

  • @allen480

    @allen480

    Жыл бұрын

    They are usually made in The Peoples Republic of China. oops!

  • @mauralawton3260
    @mauralawton32604 жыл бұрын

    I really hope I just counted BPM wrong because I came out with 120 😂 Keep up the great work!

  • @bobsurfer230
    @bobsurfer2303 жыл бұрын

    Shivering (hypothermia) or trembling (Parkinson’s) can cause motion artifact which messes up the pulse ox reading.

  • @coniferousforests8030
    @coniferousforests80304 жыл бұрын

    Is body core temperature a vital sign? What would be the optimal range and the most reliable way to measure?

  • @niccatipay

    @niccatipay

    4 жыл бұрын

    An anal thermometer is the best way to get a correct thermal read. Ear thermometer and mouth thermometer is the next. Last is the armpit thermometer.

  • @MrD-et9dp
    @MrD-et9dp2 жыл бұрын

    Great video, super informative. One question, isn't level of consciousness considered a vital sign?

  • @qlemens6273
    @qlemens62733 жыл бұрын

    Amazing to see how the kid from The Middle has evolved.

  • @FernandoChavez-mx3kv
    @FernandoChavez-mx3kv4 жыл бұрын

    Can somebody recommend me a good pulseoximeter? I want to buy a new one

  • @itechhh7126
    @itechhh71264 жыл бұрын

    Please review the new SOG Parashears!

  • @FrankEdavidson
    @FrankEdavidson11 ай бұрын

    Would one ever put an electronic blood pressure monitor or an aneroid sphyg in a first responder (not paramedic, EMT) backpack kit? Would one put a diagnostic stethoscope e.g. Cardiology IV, Master Cardiology, to hear over traffic noise in the same backpack kit or a monitoring one e.g. Classic III. Thoughts on Thinklabs One? Which Pulse Oximeter to carry? Diagnostic/indicative bang for buck for space in the EDC, a compact PO, if accurate seems a good thing to carry. A Masimo Rad-57 Pulse CO-Oximeter which also does Carboxyhaemoglobin (SpCO) and Methaemoglobin (SPMet) is out of budget, maybe it's one for firefighters. Too big form factor for EDC. Masimo MightySat Rx seems way overpriced and overhyped. The ones BASICS Scotland (medical doctor responders) showed in their bags 2015, the Envitec (Honeywell) OxiPen isn't widely available, maybe superseded. My Medisana one from LIDL (yes, lol) tests fine against a Lifepak 15, though the other one of the same model is off quite a few %.on SPO2

  • @lessiansaralonde620
    @lessiansaralonde6204 жыл бұрын

    In Australia we use mmol/L for blood glucose, a good range being 4 to 5.5 fasting.

  • @krisdeaglephotography4539

    @krisdeaglephotography4539

    3 ай бұрын

    4-8 is considered normal. Up to 10 after a meal though I agree, on the lower end of normal is better.

  • @bmcneil112
    @bmcneil1124 жыл бұрын

    🔥

  • @wahidehsas919
    @wahidehsas9193 жыл бұрын

    Good

  • @gta8awsomeness
    @gta8awsomeness4 жыл бұрын

    "anything over 100 is a sign of shock" *pulse is 101* OH GOD HES DYING!!!!!!

  • @PoisonBivy
    @PoisonBivyАй бұрын

    i am hard of hearing and since i can't use my hearing aids while using a stethoscope, what would you suggest for me to work around this?

  • @josephrosenberg8196
    @josephrosenberg81962 жыл бұрын

    Great informal video! Just one question. isn't tachycardia and hypotensive, compensated shock 🤔. and not decompnasated

  • @PrepMedic

    @PrepMedic

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you are hypotensive you are decompensated as you are losing the ability to perfuse your organs. Compensated shock would be tachycardia and normotensive

  • @floridaman8136
    @floridaman81362 жыл бұрын

    You never made that capnography video! I’d love it if you did.

  • @Lost2366
    @Lost23664 жыл бұрын

    you should do a video on a bone io

  • @sugarcan1110
    @sugarcan11103 жыл бұрын

    What type of ste th hescope is that one

  • @bigmorris9484
    @bigmorris94843 жыл бұрын

    What type of Baumanometer si he using

  • @thetypewriterist7949
    @thetypewriterist79492 жыл бұрын

    Interested in the gear you recommend for vitals...stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, pulse oximeter, etc. What brands are best for EMTs?

  • @krisdeaglephotography4539

    @krisdeaglephotography4539

    3 ай бұрын

    Littmann for stethoscope

  • @r.gproductions6674
    @r.gproductions66742 жыл бұрын

    for doing blood glucose can you use the pricker of multi casualty's or is it use once sorta thing?? (building a first responder bag )

  • @krisdeaglephotography4539

    @krisdeaglephotography4539

    3 ай бұрын

    One and done. Infection control and the needle tip blunts (hooks) once injected. (Look at a video of one on a microscopic level).