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What would you do A 20-year-old upstate New York volunteer emergency medical technician was suspended after he broke the rules to drive a four-year-old child to hospital. The board the made the decision to suspend volunteer EMT and squad leader Stephen Sawyer after he drove the Ellenville...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487239/Video-shows-dying-29-year-old-heroin-addict-revived-using-drug-Naloxone.html

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Probably look the same as "EMT with patient on board and no room to transport, stops on scene and gets rear ended, killing patient and RT joe smith. Or "EMT stops at accident , and leaves a patient who is on a vent in the back of the ambulance who unfortunately passed away while the EMT...

Can't be serious with this title? abandonment?

He also shouldn't be altering a run sheet that you did as he made the call BLS and was not the lead on the call. Sounds like basically we have someone who got pissed once they realized the elevated BP made the pt ALS and he's covering his tracks (gave report, changed report, and placed you...

Does anyone use SBAR when transferring care of a patient. Is the (R) recommendation in SBAR useless to EMS personal when transferring patient care to an ER team?

I see, thanks for the responses. With what Chaz is saying, would pain management be withheld if the trauma patient, was responsive/unresponsive throughout the transport. Awake and screaming-out cold, awake and screaming....

Looking for some discussion and wondering.... Are there any systems that allow for pain management in a trauma patient who is unresponsive. 'You pull up, noted multiple fractures, and pt is unresponsive'

You JUST learned that's how he died?

I hope not, the market is already tight in EMS no need for immigrants to come in and work it also. The only section of the medical field who should be seeking foreigners is MD/DO.

First I wouldn't create your username as your first name then post what college and class you attend, because if said teacher is reading it can get awkward. There has to be someone higher up you can address your concerns too, as there is not much else you can really do.

because there has been enough encroachment from "doctor" nurses and the BON. I wouldn't want someone who took their masters programme online and has a year of CCMed working me up in a medical emergency, sorry. PA or degree medic and no more I got my medic to be a FF types. In fact ask a lot...

NP no, PA yes or increase the paramedic education degree only. and cut the cord between fire and EMS

We can only hope so. Maybe other counties will take note.