Recent content by FiremanMike

Extreme example - In the months leading up to this run, this guy has been working 100 hour weeks to support his family because his wife has been feeling terrible and unable to work. The day before this incident, this guys wife found out she had stage 4 cancer. The run before this incident was...

What an interesting example of the topic at hand.. If I were to take this post out of context I’d think “wow this tigger guy is an unhinged ******* to go off on a longstanding member of this forum” much the same as seeing a 3 second video clip of a firefighter going off on a patient.. Alas...

I’m not saying this is the case, because there’s not enough info to say, but are you honestly saying you’ve NEVER lost your cool with an unruly frequent flier??

And of course grandma comes out of the woodwork to say she’s appalled. Look I don’t condone cussing at a 10 year old, but just remember - 1. Read between the lines, “it’s like this with you every week” - abuse of 911? Pain in the ***? Patient verbally/physically abusive? We ALL have our...

Respectfully, I disagree.. Leaving the patient prone, adding a spit mask, then “strapping the crap out of him” turned a medically sound decision into reckless and negligent behavior.

I know I’m late to the party but when I was speccing vents, the Hamilton was the front runner. Supposedly their ASV mode is a game changer and essentially self adjusts to the patient. I did reach out to the local helicopter service who is using them and they confirmed ASV wasn’t just a...

Liters of fluid are still the standard of care for sepsis/suspected sepsis.. As for aortic aneurysms - I’ve seen several in the ED. The majority were actually quite stable, but the ones who weren’t were dead quick. The most recent I can think of complained of the typical “tearing” type...

@CCCSD your posts are the epitome of “my opinion is the only one that matters” and “I need to be the ‘smartest guy in the room’”. Hopefully you allow yourself to be humbled at some point before you kill someone with your arrogant pride. Based on your self reported tenure in this business, I’d...

Aw. Neat. I’m past the age and experience level to make it past the very first and very last sentence of your post. The rest of it is pure fluff.

I was admittedly flippant with my post and I apologize. Theres something to be said about building confidence and skill by knowing the buck absolutely stops with you. That said, the longer I do this job, the more I realize I’m not as smart as I think I am. I do occasionally miss things or...

Totally agree. Take the electives that sound interesting. I ended up with essentially a minor in social psychology just because the classes sounded good (and they were).

That’s an absurdly inane statement. A good medic is better than a bad EMT. A good LPN is better than a bad RN. A good doctor is better than a bad NP. A good dental hygienist is better than a bad dentist. You can take that argument and plug anything into x and y and it will always be true. I...

Conversely there’s no fact-based evidence that less is better. I’ve worked both ways. The ability to have multiple brains in the room is a superior experience for me.

Are you intentionally misreading my post so that you can go on one of your silly condescending rants? Since you went there, I worked for over two decades in a metro area where everyone on scene was a paramedic, now I work at a smaller agency where medics are in short supply. One of these...

One can make cases that firemen don’t make good medics, but you’re literally the first person I’ve seen advocating for private ems to take over municipal 911. It is so extraordinarily rare that companies make it work that it’s laughable to suggest otherwise. Private companies need to make...