Recent content by armywifeemt

I work for a private company that is honestly not at all concerned with the well being of its employees. We are a dime a dozen. They pay us crap, treat us like crap, and run us into the ground. A couple weeks ago they put me on a 24 hour shift with someone who was a non-driver and then ran us...

I might be kind of an ******* but I feel like he knew the risks when he decided to participate in the activity that resulted in his injuries. We did everything we could with the resources we had available and according to the ER if his injury had occurred on an OR table, survival still would...

It wasn't that he died, though it caught me a little off guard since he was talking to us when we loaded him. I knew when my partners starting doing CPR in the back and told me to get there yesterday that cardiac arrest in a trauma patient was not a good sign. What really ****ed with my head...

Just curious... how much room does this leave you for patient care/how do you administer patient care?

In a few scenarios I have run across pts who truly needed medical attention and were refusing it... because health care providers in the past had not taken them seriously, had treated them poorly etc... It is a valid issue. We can be a part of preventing that sort of scenario. In each case the...

Does anyone have any opinions on the use of bariatric cots in type II ambulances? I'd appreciate the perspective of some other EMTs on the safety of this practice for both the crew and the patient. How many of you have been asked/told by employers that you had to transport a bariatric patient on...

Yeah but that is really only super effective at night...

I have a wifi hotspot in my truck but its locked down so we can only access it with our toughbooks, which are also locked down so we can only access a specific set of websites :( I want a sign I can flash on the back that says "STOP TAILGATING ME, A**HOLE" I wouldn't mind some decent...

http://www.local12.com/mostpopular/story/Jeep-Driver-in-Serious-Condition-After-Deadly/M9ChS15yUEGv3zFSyBb47w.cspx Patient dead... One EMT in critical condition at the very least (he was airlifted to the top trauma center in the area) and probably the other as well. Personally I'm wondering...

Transferred someone I knew to hospice a couple days ago.. Tossed and turned all night the last couple of nights. Just feeling kinda crappy about it.

This weekend has been FUBAR. Agreed to work nights since they didn't have a partner for me on my reg shift. Coulda taken it easy riding as a third but going for brownie points to pad my app for FTO when a position opens up, which should be soon... so much for a boring job in privates...

I'm very sorry this has happened. Pardon if this seems in any way insensitive to such a fresh wound but... Mourn the loss, remember the friend, push on and do your best to help someone survive another day... I became an EMT because of the loss of a few good friends... the knowledge that someone...

Not my own story, but just as a reference... you probably shouldn't "sit" on tennis balls if you are allergic to latex.

Does anyone know of any current AEMT course offerings in SW Ohio, including Columbus? I can't find any stand-alone AEMT programs anywhere.

When you can fairly accurately (90% or better) identify a diabetic before asking them, seeing their medical records, etc...