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  1. EMTswag

    Online Scheduling

    both the hospital-based EMS systems i work at use whentowork.com.... awesome platform, allows you to set up announcements, has an open tradeboard, submit availability, and the best part is you can see what truck and with who you are rostered to for the published schedule, as well as who is...
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    things you will never live down

    took a job 15-20 minutes away for a neuro transfer with the lights all in secondary... i was a rather confused driver the whole way there
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    Well there ya go... That's a lot of extrication power for just a one man crew
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    We may have a winner. Communication has always been a problem between our two services, especially in a third-service EMS system, and should absolutely be addressed as the root cause of most of the issues between our missions.
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    Agreed, but that doesn't mean it's the best option and thus shouldn't be something we just relegate to the sidelines saying "at least we have it in some form."
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    not necessarily entirely pointless. depending on what area and department your rescue comes from, you could have, and most have had, situations where extrication was done with no regard for the ems treatment goals or the pts condition, and only what was easier for the fd.
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    also a great point. in jersey up north is the only hospital-based EMS system rescue unit that i have ever heard of, UMDNJ's Rescue 1 in the city of Newark. But yes completely agree with the extrication being pt care centered and thus should be the responsibility of EMS. Moreover, perhaps the...
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    very good point. its not really a situation where EMTs on the ambulance are doing the cut so much as an EMS service has EMTs cross-trained as rescue techs who staff a rescue truck specifically to do rescue assignments. But I do see your point, scene safety is one of the most stressed thing in...
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    The role of EMS in the rescue assignment

    In one of the towns i work in, approx 30,000 people with two major highways passing through it, heavy rescue is done by two of the three volunteer fire companies and one of the two volunteer rescue squads. Per regulation in our state, any vehicle extrication utilizing heavy rescue tools require...
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    Problems getting hired

    Be careful. A lot of places, at least in NJ, don't recognize vollie exp as actual experience.
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    Dumbest thing heard on the radio

    Yup me and them would be having a nice private conversation about that
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    Illinois Boy Dies in Ambulance during Hospital Transfers

    whoops i chalk that one up to having shift changes at 4am... all i read was emergency medical technicians and assumed they sent him BLS. My fault lol
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    Illinois Boy Dies in Ambulance during Hospital Transfers

    Did he really get a BLS non emergent transfer? Shouldn't he have been sent SCTU emergent? That would have meant he had pedi MICNs or even a resp therapist with him, or even just tube him before he left?
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    Preschool Providers

    Nothing will ever top my previous partner i dont think... every call ended with "Well i remember when this last happened to me..." go on a rant about how he saved the world from a meteor and end it with "Man, ive been doing this way way too long..." one day i decided to ask my 21 y/o...
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    New NJ BLS protocols

    unfortunately you are absolutely correct :/ what a shame because njoemscert was such a great website :rofl: i can't even imagine what abomination they will think up next
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    Oxygen

    Okay yeah just clarifying I happen to agree with you. As it happens though a lot of times, as you undoubtedly know, an MI or even any sort of chest pain has some associated SOB that would be treatable, not necessarily with 15lpm, but some application of o2. Then again, I've brought many a...
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    A couple of question for a wanna be Paramedic

    Unfortunately, however, I am forced to assert that a decent amount of BLS can be described as such..
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    A couple of question for a wanna be Paramedic

    Thats gonna be a negative
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    A couple of question for a wanna be Paramedic

    Most paramedics don a full duty belt complete with the largest size maglite and holster, two glove pouches, belt keepers, complete trauma kit on the strong side and pocket cpr mask and bvm pouch on the weak side, as well as a radio strap and spare radio. off duty. The on duty belt is much...
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    Do not ever bring the stretcher up more than one or two steps.

    omg i almost forgot that the other day at work. But we can translate this into "dont forget to unplug the shoreline before you peel out" also
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