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I feel fentanyl is better for abdomianl pain. Due to it's shorter half life of 30 mins. Think about what we are trying to do in the field. That is to take the edge off. Now Morphine last I think 2-7 hrs. So I feel using fentanyl would be better because it will wear off faster so that the Doc and...

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Crazy I have been in EMS for 8 years and going strong. Six years as an EMT-Basic and Two years as a paramedic. I currently working 24 hrs shifts and have for the past 4 years, we avg. 10-15 call a shift. I feel that burn out is on the person, heart experience and so on. Also allot goes...

Ridryer, you are right. The sad thing about all of this. Was that I thought he was a friend and turned out to be a bad stabber. But you know and I know. No matter how great of a medic we are that when a rumor starts. That all we have is our credit ability. Trash talker are one that could...

Update Well I spoke to him, It didn't go anywhere. Like I thought, He just denied it even when I told him who said all the rumors. With there permission of course. I spoke to my chief paramedic. I guess this guy is like that he just likes to talk crap. My chief also said there were allot of...

I am just wondering what some of your protocols allow. From standing orders to call in orders. Here in Colorado they vary, from the rural area to the metro area. Most of our agencies in the Metro Denver area we follow The Denver Metro Protocols? Such as for CHF Nitro, Lasix, Mso4...

It's cool man but your right. This is just a case that someone is not getting what they want.

I agree completely High School. I guess the reason I am having problems with this is because I have never had anyone talk bad about me. I have been In EMS for 9 years and I know people talk crap all the time. But for some reason this is brothing me. I know I shouldn't....

Someone is spreading rumors about me. I found out from some other people that came up and told me. What should I do? I was told to go a confront him? I pissed off enough to just go to admin. To let then know what’s going on. But I was told to first go and talk to that person first. I...

Yeah DG pays geat. But you work 4-10's and run an avg of 8-9 calls every shift. It's a very busy system.

You all have some great points. I agree if someone wants to call 911 and come with us great I also have dropped off many people off in triage many times, but I have also treat and released many people that really didn't need togo. So if we give people guild lines when to call 911 and when...

Here in Colorado if you work for a private service you make alot less. As if you work for a Fire based EMS dept. Fire Base you can Avg for a Fire Medic from 47k-70k and for private ambulance service you can avg from 30k-49k depending if you are with a county service as well. THIS IS STATE WIDE