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

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

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

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!!!

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

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

Respirations are always 16, always.

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! ❤

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

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

Forwarding this video to my trainees. Good job Sam.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You make great videos! Thank you for this one!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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!

You’re videos are really helpful thank you

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.

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

Hi! Thank you for the awesome and useful video!

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

Informative, as ever, many thanks.

I learn something from you everyday.

Fantastic! succinct, easy to understand

Good video and good information

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

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

Thank you for making these videos!

Thank You for providing very useful information.

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

Keep up the good work!

EXCELLENT! Thank you.

Huge thanks I took notes on the whole video

Pretty useful info as usual, thnx bro😎👊

Great job on your videos

very informative watching from south africa

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

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

Great stuff

i was looking for that for ages!

Excellent info video

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

great basics

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

Thank you so much 🙏🏻

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.

Great video Sam.

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

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.

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

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.

Thank you 💙

Your got me to the ems explorer program

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

Proper good that

Best video

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

nice studio you got there :)

This is so educational

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

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.

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

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

i love you so much thanks so much

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

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

Nice video ! :D

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

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

Thank you Sir

Please review the new SOG Parashears!

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

Good

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

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

i know how to give my dad his inline and check his suger level with out training he just told me how to and so if needed i can help him untile ems gets there

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

Can you review the Littmann Eko Core?

you should do a video on a bone io

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

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?

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 )

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

initially DRSABCD or CAB Then Probably the best sequence of vital signs is Conscious state initially AVPU then GCS later followed by Respiratory status then Circulatory in Most of the Ambulance world