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We always give it IM here unless there is serious respiratory depression, makes for a slower adjustment back into the reality of heroin withdrawl.

"do you like camping?.....the infantry is right up your alley"

If you need any specific information for Alberta as Tim said he works here and I work in Calgary so any help I can offer through PMs I will.

All of the fire/ems dramatics in this thread lately make me even more appreciative that firefighters just fight fires and do CPR here.

Its not terribly difficult....eliminate "simple" carbohydrates, laugh more, sleep more, exercise more, have sex more....equals more energy......

We have mdts that sync to our epcr tough books. The maps/gps being on the mdts our system sounds exactly like deserts.

....human blood

We use the same type as noted above and they have always been pretty accurate when compared to in hospital/ETT readings.

Working in a slow service combined with my ADHD like tendencies would lead to nothing but trouble.

Sleep at work? My jealousy meter is at 10!!!

My system isn't perfect but I will just use it as an example. We service a town of 1.2 million. At all times we have two tems medics working. They are ALS practicioners who deploy out of two different stations in different parts of town. They have swat like jump suits on and operate out of...

Real rescues by your definition happen so rarely domestically that the figures would be almost nil. As I'm sure some of the other vets will attest to, we should be thanking our lucky stars we don't live in a place where it happens daily. If people want to do these types of things their only...

You need to know when to use test judgement and real world judgement by the sounds of it. In my humble opinion you sound like a lost puppy dog new to the world? How much experience in emergency care did you have before attending medic school? You will learn quickly you will never attain any...

In some other countries, mostly commonwealth I find, salaries are on par with police, fire, RN etc. Then again in Canada etc we are taxed out the ***.

Any service worth a damn will have a transport truck around the corner regardless if you work in an urban or rural setting. Keep them alive or at least don't make them any worse between the contact point and the transport unit. GSW and traumatic hem patients need one thing "SURGERY". If that...

If this is for a tac team all you need is standard gsw/hem kits basic opa/NPA/king a/w, iv/io supplies, c collar, morph/fent/ketamine...we aren't doing RSI inside a hot scene for gods sake.

Lazer I think you are underestimating the lack of real world knowledge that comes along with a few combat tours in either Iraq or Afghanistan in the last 12 years. You can make the assumption that book knowledge and simulation will get you through to the other side, but I bet you a lot of us...

CPR and no defib.....remind me never to arrest in central pa

:censored::censored::censored::censored: bird....for reasons I keep to myself

Your sentence structure is so god awful, it is difficult to follow what you're saying. If it takes a paramedic on scene to get a bp, god help you.