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    Altitude Mountain Sickness

    Acute mountain sickness also known as altitude sickness, simple mistake. I am aware of those two now because you just answered thanks for the courtesy.
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    Altitude Mountain Sickness

    Have any of you experienced or attended to patients suffering from AMS, HAPE, or HACE? Descent and oxygen are about the only two interventions Ive read about. could Aspirin have a positive effect?
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    Question on phlebotomy training

    National Registry accepts only AHA. I took both the red cross and AHA health care provider certs within a few months apart and found AHA to be slightly more comprehensive.
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    holidays

    hopefuly my second ride along^_^
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    the 100% directionless thread

    O_0 how was the driver driving?
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    Transition from EMT-B to EMT

    I was under the impression that emt-b and emt were one and the same.
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    What shots are required to do ride alongs and intern at the hospital?

    I will forever get a positive tb test so they just jump me to a chest X-ray.
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    Do you know of anyone dying from being placed in spinal immobilization?

    :P you are correct, she was not found buried in the ground. True. Lose-lose situations are always an unhappy matter.
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    What shots are required to do ride alongs and intern at the hospital?

    You should have been given a list to give to your personal/school physician but when I did mine they asked for TB/hep's/and tetanus among a few others.
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    FEMA tests? Requirements? Help me, please!

    I've got aliens in government bunkers trying to retrieve my Ssn ;) I'm putting up a fight.
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    FEMA tests? Requirements? Help me, please!

    You can also take it though http://training.nwcg.gov/courses/i100.html They don't require a Ssn like the FEMA site.
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    vodka tampons, "butt chugging" Teens stupid tricks to get drunk

    Is anyone up to helping me with a clinical trial to bust, plausible, or confirm this? I can't believe this thread is still going!
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    Side Career

    Seasonal wild land firefighter.
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    Tivo

    Dvr is great way to go. VCR... Isn't that what old people use to watch they're weddings with?
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    Do you know of anyone dying from being placed in spinal immobilization?

    He's not the type to scare with stories, I completely believe him. And yes she in every way and form ceased to breathe. They were attempting to excavate her and her head was forced by the dashboard at an awkward angle.
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    Do you know of anyone dying from being placed in spinal immobilization?

    Yes one of my skills instructors who served as a fire/paramedic for 25 years, told us about a call where the passenger of a vehicle accident ceased breathing so he adjusted her airway and consequently died of a broken neck injury.
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    EMT class other than in a classroom

    well. the best of luck you ya.
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    EMT class other than in a classroom

    well you might find one in a church, hospital, under a tree. but im pretty sure emt class will be held in a classroom most of the time. :P
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    Do you address referred spinal nerve pain?

    I think thats why no one is replying.
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