Recent content by Focallength

We transported. Level 1 trauma 5 miles away. Who knows when als will arrive. Trauma doc said we did good, trauma nurse pissed because we didnt wait for als, complained to company, filed charges with state. I have yet to find a protocol we broke. Sac county only mentions max 10 minutes on scene...

Your a bls unit, you come upon a single vehicle mva on the freeway, driver is out of the vehicle .female 5mo pregenant, abd/chest pain 8/10 knee pain 6/10 + bruising. - deformities. Your told fire is responding, your on scene for 11 minutes. Scene is clear, traffic is flowing chp is leaving...

gawd just delete the post its not even worth it.

well first off you wont get to ask for a salary youll get paid x amount or you wont take the job. Salraly can range wildly from minimum wage to $15 an hour to start. Realistically expect to earn minimum wage, yes it sucks yes we deserve more yes its skilled labor and yes the guy spinning the...

If your off duty,what are you going to do? In ca. a EMT has to be trained to deliver children. But off duty unless you have an OB kit what are you going to do? Do you have all the PPE with you? Child birth is messy and their is a very high risk of contamination. Its the same reason I dont stop...

has anyone ever gotten a ticket for running a red light with a camera? I got flashed a couple of nights ago, my partner said they rarely if ever even send the ticket out and the BC for the night said its about 50/50. I was driving with a 2year old patient his dad and my partner in the back late...

Its funny from my experience new EMT's are split between 2 major groups with 1 small sub set. 18-21 and 30-40 are the 2 major groups then there are the odd 45-55's thrown in. Believe it or not most employers prefeer the later 2 groups, we tend to have maturity and life experience on our side...

The title is a tad ambiguious. I was curious if anyone has ever had a altercation (verbal or not) with someone on the street and later on had that person as a patient. You know every so often some tard decides he is offended by your very presence on the planet and decides to tell you about...

+1 on the bates. Sears (if you have sears in florida, if not go on line) has them for $100 but regulary on sale for $70. Or if you have a Big 5 (again on line if you dont) you can get some black boots for $20 that will last long enough to finish the class. As far as pants, you wont need...

usually we just run aroud in circles screaming and waving our hands in the air

statistically if you get kicked out at a low number you passed, unless you did really bad and failed miserably. if you get kicked out in the low to mid hundreds, you may have passed but then again you may not. If you go into the high hundreds to 200 you have a better than average chance you...

honestly, its only important to be able to recognise abnormal rates and thats pretty easy. As far as documentation...theres a bit of estimating, but being able to recognise 8 BPM and 20+ is easy just look at them. In class there really wasnt a focus on getting the actuall BPM unless they were...

yes we respond code 3, usually more often than we transport. We do alot of CCT and have numerous CCN's and even 2 fixed wing aircraft. We contract with numerous hospitals and are even the sole provider for NICU and peds for one major hospital. but the majority is responding to SNF and the like...

we typically get 20 + calls a day. We run IFT along with some hospital stuff prisons and private residences. We get more calls than AMR, the SNF and hospitals call us instead of 911. Trauma is rare, mostly geriatric and pediatrics medical calls, with a fair share of NICU calls. A lot of people...

The company I work for dosent handle 911 calls, however we handle calls from numerous hospitals and SNF. That being said when the SNF or the hospital has an emergency they dont call 911 they call our dispatch. Fire never shows up unless we call them, we handle all aspects of the call, not just...