Recent content by 46Young

EMS has no business going into a hot zone. LE needs to clear your area, make it a warm zone, and then bring EMS in. We carry special kits with 5 tourniqets, 5 chest seals, 5 tension pneumo kits, 5 hemostatic gauze, 5 npa's, 5 compressed bandages, and that's about it. We get ballistics gear as...

Chicago is urban. Units are going to be stacked on top of each other arriving on-scene. I can't envision a scenario where the ambulance is arriving on-scene several minutes prior to fire units, and need to commit to a primary search.

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It sounds like they have medics on their engines and ladder companies that can go into the IDLH, inside a car, etc. The txp medics need to be ready to receive the pt, not commit to other activities. My department is dual-role. The first arriving ambulance crew may try to grab a back-up line...

There exists a frequent flier that likes to eat at different restaurants, and when it comes time to pay, he complains of chest pain, and takes a txp to get out of paying the bill. After the fourth time I had police respond. Making sure to not impact pt care, they took his picture, recorded his...

So, did ATCEMS go to 12-hour shifts yet?

The dangers/burnout of 24+ hr shifts, how some EMS systems such as Charleston County and Greenville in SC have gone to 12's with a cap of 16, how ATC-EMS was moving towards the same. Related health effects, how you perform similar to an intox after 16 consecutive work hrs. Or go the other way...

An IRA is good if you've already maxed out your 401k/403b/457 depending on who you work for. I would go for the employer sponsored deferred comp before the IRA if there's an employer match to go along with your contributions. You don't get that free money with an IRA. In my particular case, I...

Assuming that you get a third taken out in taxes, you're talking about a gross yearly salary of $45,000. You're pretty close to the median USA household income, and you're single. That's about $20.08/hr assuming a 40 hr workweek. I used to live in Queens NY, living on $500/wk net as a Snapple...

ETCO2 rise would be a good indicator of mechanical capture.