I am curious about how other EMS in different states work. I am wondering if I visit another state say like TX would I be able to maybe be on an ambulance ride along for a shift or two?
The test had a lot of different questions. Cardic, medical, trauma, ob peds, airway, ambulance operations. It was not an adaptive test like my basic was so if I missed a question in an area I was not given another one from the same area. I had 136 questions and all of them had to be answered. I...
I want to apologize for my erroneous quote at how much our operating costs are. We are at about 350 - 400 K where in the heck I go 30 k I dk. Again I apologize. But the good news is we are staying in the county. The hospital board voted Monday and a vote 5-1 was the result. Yay. The bad news is...
I work for a small rural hospital based ambulance service. Over a year ago the hospital was having money problems and a bigger hospital came and took over the operations. Now the bigger hospital in charge wants to do away with the ambulance service, the only ambulance service that is based in...
Those people who are satisfied with flipping burgers all day, dropped out of school and have no interest in doing anything better with their lives will be making the same amount of money or more then I am and I had to go to school to do what I do. I knew the pay wasn't great in EMS but when we...
First started wanting to be on the fire dept b/c of a MVC I helped out on as a bystander. Being on a volunteer dept I was told I needed to be a first responder too. I had waited and waited for first responder courses to be offered and none came up. My gf who was also on the fire dept told me...
I am sure we all have those calls we will never forget. Well I had one over the weekend. Deputies get paged out for a welfare check, deputies tell dispatch an ambulance is needed, ambulance dispatched for elderly man needing to go to hospital to be checked out. We roll. We get to the residence...
We had a patient the other day that weighed 325lbs. Thankfully we don't get to many patients that heavy.He was heavy but I did my part. My forearms were sore afterwards. So how can I build the strength up in my forearms.
We are learning the different rhythms in paramedic class right now. My question is what was your method for learning and remembering the rules for the rhythms?