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Hey all, We have been learning about Acute Coronary Syndrome and treatment and I'm not 100% clear on how to differentiate the typical signs and symptoms of ACS VS Pleuritic VS Muscular pain. While I understand that the symptoms can not always signify a certain route of diagnosis and that...

Reading my notes, I have 2 "Recommendations" for when MICA (ALS in the US) should be called but this is not official so its not the gospel according to the Ambulance Service but these recommendations are Patients do not respond to Ambulance Paramedic (roughly ILS in US) treatment within their...

I never claimed you or AREMT claimed anything, I was just mealy stating fact in my first paragraph about the difference between EMTs and Ambulance Officers/Paramedics in Australia. How so? Ok explain to me what this important function is please? It might get me to register. I don't feel...

Hello there, From my understanding, this registration would get you no work at all with any Ambulance Service. In Australia EMTs are classified as industrial paramedics whose job it is to work on high risk sites with lower training then the Paramedic level. Paramedic levels vary from state to...

Can't say it does much to promote the the profession however it did make me laugh a tiny bit. D5fX2s_lqS0 Sorry if this has been already posted

23 y/o Female has been remanded to custody, she didn't apply for bail. She has been charged with As I said in the other thread on this, I was hoping that there would be harsher penalties for damage to an Emergency Vehicle or assault on all emergency personnel, not just police.

Reminds me of Kent v Griffiths [2000] 2 All ER 474. I reckon someone is going to get in trouble over this one. Really need more details then before anyone can really pass judgement on this guy though. Yes he should have responded, but it would also be good if there was adequate coverage to...

Not Queensland Ambulances :glare: When I watched the video associated with the incident, (actually found the vid on you tube from channel 10 after it occurred purely while searching for QAS vehicles), I was disgusted. I don't think Australian States go far enough into the protection of...

So on the verge of the release of the new 2010 Guidelines soon, what do you think ILCOR is going to change? I know the common throught is moving to CCR. Is the ARC likely to adopt the changes (specifically if CCR is adopted) in December or do you reckon they will change to follow ILCOR...

One of my course units covered relations with the media and cases pretty much go to the media person who will refer us to the concerned reporters/media outlets and we can decide if we choose to talk with them. Pretty much we can say what we found, that we got there with in X number of minutes...

So I have heard from a few sources that Fentanyl (specifically Intranasal Administration which can be given to what is equivalent to an EMT-I with our EMT-P equivalents being allowed to give it IV) is very ineffective and that most are reluctant to use it. I have also heard from other sources...

They were having some fun, just letting off some steam, yeah they shouldn't have mentioned any company but we are all human and act human. Being any kind of EMT is a stressful job and different people cope in different ways. No one should have been let go for this, maybe some discipline instead.

Hey Stew, Welcome to the forums, I travel quite a lot to QLD, so I look forward to talking with you about QAS and their protocols as well as other ambulance services, I'm actually considering QLD as my second state to go to if my first one falls through.

I'm going to apprach this question from a Primary Survey Point of view (DRABCD) of my geographic location. A When checking an airway it's easier to do it from the head (triple airway manoeuvre or Laryngoscopy). Since your already at the head when checking A (DRABCD) it wastes time to move...

Hey mate, How's everything going?