Recent content by AtlantaEMT

Looking cool was more of a joke but for some reason others took it like it is the main reason I cot surf. I provide the best care possible and is why I've actually had patients call into my work to thank me (even with a paramedic). I work hard and learn everything I can possible (it's why I'm...

True, but I'm not jumping on some bloody stabbing victim or someone who looks like they eat MRSA for breakfast. I found it easier to ride the side of a gurney than hop on top of some 300lb fat guy who is already falling off the sides of the stretcher. But that's just me, you do what you like.

I had a black partner who was accused of being racist from a black patient. Weird thing was, that the patient was cool with me.

My first day in the field during EMT school. Patient knocks on our door at about 10am (how she found the station, I have no clue) and her tongue is swollen to hell in her mouth. We get into the truck and I went to start an IV (my very first). I put the tourniquet on and the patient says to me...

I guess that is the simple way to put it. I did it once in EMT school and some fellow students saw me coming in. They said it looked cool which is what I like the most about it.

They aren't, but I had to do it with a patient going into the ER. I was on the left side of the stretcher (being I'm right handed) and held on to the right rail with my left arm, put my feet on the bottom stretcher rail, did chest compressions with my right arm, and rode into the ER all the way...

There is a new smart-phone thingy that a doctor developed that can take an ECG and then send it to a doctor. If they add a defibulater on top of wikipedia, then we'll all be out of a job. Cell phone is the best piece of equipment. Now if you plan on going camping or rafting with some...

I Agree if it is just an EMT and a Medic (or even a medic and medic). If you have other people available (wether a cop, FF, student. or joe schmoe) to do chest compressions, it seems reasonable for a medic to work on the drugs and eletrical therapy, while the EMT secures an airway. Any...

Has anyone ever had a medic use a combitube? I had a medic once who used it on a full code. I went for the intubatin kit but he told me to get the combitube.

The worst people I struggle working with are other EMTs who feel that being an EMT is beneath them and that they really should be a paramedic with the scope of practice of an intensivist. Those people drive me nuts, and are often the ones who freak out when their BLS patient suddenly goes ALS...

Wow, amazing! Now this long pre-hospital CPR is something I thought about on a flight I was on yesterday. What if someone had a heart attack on a flight? Now my flight was short and if someone did, it wouldn't be a big deal because we could be at many airports in a short amount of time...

I'd say for right now. Libya and Detroit.

This story has an upside. There is a story about models in bikinis at the bottom!

What about the guy who decided that the suction canister should have an expiration date?

And if you ever forget you are an EMT, hop on a MICU unit with a Nursegod. They'll be sure to remind you.