I understand a lot of EMS is 911, but IFT is growing more and more and is becoming more abundant and more diverse. I say us glorified taxis need a category. What do you all think?
I am thinking about transfering to Vegas with AMR. I have a couple of questions. What is the average pay for basics? Do you guys have a website for you EMS out in NV? the links on the board do not work!
We were dispatched to the pedestrian accident yesterday. OUA we found 16 y/o f on the ground. From what we were told she had been standing on the back of the car and fell off when it started to roll. she ended up with a bilat skull fx. She was very messed up. Very confused. We brought her to our...
Well, I work for a large EMS company. My regular truck is an older Ford E-350 (2005). Well, in January our truck had a power steering leak. It had to be fixed only about 3 times. Well after they fixed it for the final time (we thought), my supervisor was taking the truck back from our shop to...
On Monday March 16, I will be taking NREMT-B test. I am more than 2 years from EMT school. I am going to be studying my @$$ off. Well I will let you know how I make out...
Ok, my partner and picked up a Pt from a doctor's office today. 44 y/o f with only h/o MS. The Pt had been in "remission" from MS since 2004. Pt's CC was feeling ill. She was febrile. She also had chills and whole body tremors. I don't think it was a sz because she was talking to me the whole...
Tonight's episode of House MD was about a 13 y/o Pt that had a secret kept from him by his parents. The kid had a genetic d/o that made him a male/female. The parents chose to make him a male. His parents kept it a secret from him. Well, the kid got sick and the parents asked the doctors to keep...
My coworkers gave me the nickname of Farva, just because I looked liked him. It is from Super Troopers. If you haven't seen that movie I recomend it. I want that group to do Super Medics. So my questions to you are: do you have a nickname, what is it, how did you get it, and do you like it? I...
Between my partner and myself this discussion has come up lately. Do you like busy or dead shifts? Now I work on an Als transfer truck and sometimes we are busy doing local D/C's other times we do long runs to Boston. We had a very Busy shift on Friday, yet the day still just dragged by. We work...
1)Where do you work? (Town, City, State, or Name, whatever.)
2)What type of service is it? (private, city/town, county, hospital-based)
3)What type of calls do you do? (911, Transfers, Intercepts)
4)What level of care do you provide? (Als, Bls)
5)What type of calls do you do the most...
My partner and I (Sharon) responded to a call for injurys after the assualt a couple of months ago. When we got there we find about 7 police crusiers. We found a very drunk Pt sitting in the back seat. PD was telling this guy he had to go to the hosp. We got him out of the crusier and started to...
Lets say you were called on a response to a doctors' office for a Pt that fell earilier in the day. This Pt was prone to falls and syncope. The Pt was amb and went to his Dr's office for a checkup. (This was a scheduled appt.) The Dr called to have Pt evalutated at local ER for R/O head bleed...