Recent content by DrParasite

$37/hr to be a special event EMT at NC State Football games: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/207521 @MMiz, you looking for a side job? With inflation having risen over the last few years, the salaries for a lot of EMS jobs are going up as well.

You've never backed you car into a tight spot without using the rear view mirror?

honestly, that was one of the things that I couldn't do in NJ, but could do in NC... more than one CVA transport was slowed down waiting for ALS to do a BGL stick. and we can also give OTC Tylenol and Advil PO for pain management.... I figure if you can give epi IM, than you can do the same...

I was in it.... 30 or so years ago too. knots were great; i use many of them daily on my technical rescue team. First aid was not to bad, esp when you needed to improvise equipment. Not only that, but many clinical teachings have changed since the 90s EMT school is great, but it's a 3-6...

I remember seeing medics put meds down the tube when they couldn't get a line... never did make much sense to me, but I guess better than nothing. and yes, I know many thing have changed since the horse drawn ambulance days.

By first responder, I mean the non-transporting hose draggers mostly.... So I was in EMS con ed last night for cardiac arrest management, and one of the topics mentioned was how the medical director doesn't let FD do much in this county, and I brought up my dream that I wish FD first responders...

your instructor was wrong.... hypothermia kills people in shock. Now, if the logic was to strip them to look for a major wound or pooling internal bleeding, I could get in board with that; however, once you have completed your examination, cover them back up. Also, someone with an isolated...

when was this? I stared in 1998, and we never had a solo medic in the back on an arrest. Occasionally it was a solo EMT if no medic was available, but I can't imagine having to do all of that by yourself in a moving ambulance. I have done CPR while standing in a moving ambulance (not that it...

This needs clarification: the over whelming majority of people treated by EMS don't go into cardiac arrest in an ambulance. 99 times out of a 100, they are somewhere that isn't the back of an ambulance, so you have the built in delay of notification, having responders arrive on scene, and...

BTW, even though I don't teach EMS anymore (I'm about to let my instructor cert lapse), I am still an adjunct instructor in another department teaching students to pass a different exam (and hoping to get accepted to an associate professor job that I applied for), I want you to know that I tell...

Maybe you're not as good as you think you are? Maybe you're not as good as you think you are? if you haven't achieved a passing score on the cognitive exam, then you haven't successfully completed the exam.... failing an objective exam means you haven't been successful... not sure what is...

short answer: if you have issues with another poster, report it to the moderators, don't try to start a fight in a thread. Also stating you made a mistake is a lot different than asking a question that 1) is an agency-specific question that should be addressed to your supervisor 2) is something...

I remember seeing that in college.... apparently the drunk girls seizures were triggered by saying the word seizure outloud!

I believe the answer is due to @MMiz having a real job, in addition to an EMS job, and he didn't spend much time in a 911 system... Believe it or not, not every EMT is on an ambulance answering 911 calls. I've done CPR more times than I can remember... however, the overwhelming number of EMS...

Apparently, you haven't been watching the new HBO Max show "the Pitt"... In Pittsburgh ERs, this type of thing happens all the time, and it's just part of the job