Recent content by aidan

Station 5 :)

Yes, he's great. I've done all 3 ER clinicals and just rode with Riverside City Fire today :) Lynch on Monday.

I'm in the Wednesday class (176). Our instructor told us to search current events in EMS and write a two paragraph article on them. www.ems1.com is one site you can use. Make sure other squad members are going to actually write an article if they say they are. If you don't have all 5 I'm sure...

If the dog is in some crazy heart arrythmia, yeah..good luck. More likely in dogs they get stabbed, kicked, crushed, or pass out from heat.. all of which we can greatly help. Depends where you're at I guess. We have vet hospitals near our regular hospitals.. but yeah, the prognosis of someone...

Sasha! I've been busy with school and work :(. I'm trying to come around more :-p

CPR just artificially perfuses to buy time. Of course I wouldn't attach an AED.. it's simply to buy time. Either the dog is 100% dead or we try CPR even though we are limited for treating dogs and they have a slight chance of living. The latter seems like the obvious choice, as long as all...

I don't see any effective means by which any of the artificial O2 supply devices we use could work on dogs: the best thing that an EMT can do is provide mouth to snout CPR. Clear the mouth of any obstructions with a finger sweep, just like in people. Close the mouth, extend the head back (so the...

I disagree.. having gone through two years of undergrad so far, the young people are MUCH more successful in class than people who come back to school later in life..they're fresh out of highschool, and studying isn't something new. The people in their 30's+ stereotypically don't have very good...

Hmm, I'm lost. EMTs don't retire at 29, so it wouldn't be crazy to start at 30 or anything.. :P The only problem you may find is studying. The young kids have an advantage since we are fresh out of high school and/or are college students. Just figure out a study routine and you'll be golden.

I mostly disagree with everyone.. I really don't think they were justified in sending you home. I'm not sure where you were when you said that over the radio, like in the hall or what not.. if they sent you home because you sarcastically snapped at dispatch around the patient, and made the...

Very optimist of you :P it's a great quality to be able to pull a valuable lesson out of an otherwise bad situation.. his partner may have taught him a lesson, but did it at the expense of the patient's health.

DeviantART takes poetry now? Didn't know that...haha, I dunno..a lot of the guys at our base look like the type to write poetry :P

Quite possibly..but WalMart has (approximately) 1.6 million employees; fast food places / other minimum wage (or low pay places) that get treated (usually) worse have approximately 2.5 million employees.

I don't know..but apparently it's pretty common because I hear about it a LOT out here..

Quick question (that I'm probably ignorantly missing): It didn't say in the article (at least I don't think?) that the girl beind sued for pulling her friend out is an EMT, or trained in EMS... is it just implied? Because if she didn't know about C-spine injuries and didn't know about good...