Recent content by ClarkEMS

Hey everyone! I am currently spending some time in Iclenad and am wondering if anybody knows a thing or two about Icelandic EMS or if one of you serves in EMS here?

I think we need to look at this as a specific situation. If the patient can cause harm to us, like a prisoner, then why not have an armed guard with the patient restrained...in fact, I think we should have 2 armed guards in that situation with a following vehicle. The problem this presents...

Israeli Medics When I rode with Israeli medics, some of them did carry pistols, but there is a clear difference between these medics and American medics. The main difference is that Israel is a nation constantly at war with these medics routinely entering closed military zones to access...

Tricky To make a good EMS TV show requires a lot of thought and knowledge of demographics and to whom this show will appeal to. To make an EMS show successful it needs to attract a good following by creating a catchy storyline with realistic scenarios and, lets face it, action. Any new EMS show...

The international EMS olympics happened while I was there in June, it was so cool! The Karmel base in Haifa took home the gold I believe :P go Haifa!

I volunteered with MDA as a FR. It was great, but as usual, Israeli bureaucracy ruined the experience :rolleyes: I spoke with someone at the base who wants to do the MDA Paramedic program and then move to the US, but I don't know if it is transferable. I think, though, if you get a degree in...

My fire department has a note pad that works really great on scenes. It lists all of the information that is needed from the patient and makes it very easy and organized to keep track of what information you have.

A blast from the past. Not long ago as I was sitting in my dorm in Haifa, Israel, I remembered this show I had watched back in the '90s, Rescue 911. I did some looking around and found out that there are hundreds of old episodes on Youtube. Watching these episodes I can see clearly what has...

Hey, I am also a new EMT, welcome! I am not looking to be a nurse or anything, but my experience with the private ambulance and fire department ambulance has been really great. Both have different qualities to them and I felt like each one taught me something new each shift. As for what route...

Yeah, I understand completely with the posts, and I appreciate the help which is why I posted this in the first place :-) She wasn't intoxicated or under the influence of anything. She knew where she was, what she was doing, did not slur speech, etc. The reason she did not want to take the...

Dually noted and I understand that. That is what concerned me too and this will most likely be brought up at our run review meeting with our medical director. The vitals were fine other than the fact that my partner didn't take repirations which I later took. This refusal is not a refusal of...

Oh no you are fine! I appreciate what you wrote, I wrote that post before I saw yours. Thanks!

Yeah, honestly, I don't know how cost became a factor in this discussion. The patient didn't choose a taxi over ambulance cause it was free, the ambulance is free too. No doubt that abd situations are tough I wasn't about to tell the patient that she had appendicitis or ectopic pregnancy or...

We never find out the end result with our patients, but I looked up all the symptoms last night and did some research into some possible things that it could have been and I am most definitely sure that it was appendicitis. I will never know for sure, but every symptom I saw in the patient was...

Well, there is the first problem, we aren't all EMTs on the squad. A bunch of us are being put through EMT training through the school which is what I am doing, otherwise everyone is a first responder. I immediately thought of pregnancy problems or appendix and a few other things which is why in...