Recent content by HokieEMT

I had one this summer not too long after i got home from college. IT was a difficulty breathing pt and we were dispatched with the next closest career medic so we were basically the 1st Responder. We walk in and we havent even talked to the Pt when her friend is already asking "Where are you...

My dad has too many of the same story. There is a reason he won't eat at Double T Diner(local place), Golden Corral, and many other buffet styles places. He has even had ones where the pts friends pick up what the pt was eating and eat it.

My worst was a cardiac arrest where he didnt make it, but then it was trumped a couple weeks later. My friend's mom had gotten metastasized breast cancer again and we all knew she wasn't doing too well. We were sitting watching TV one day when his dad who is on the career side calls and...

Now Im second party to this call, but I feel like I got a pretty good breakdown of the call. This was at least 12-15 years ago because it was when my dad was still in the FD. There was this married couple that had seperated for the time being and the husband decided to call her up to try and...

Funny thing is I swore as a kid I would never enter medicine because my parents turned me off of it with their nightly dinner table discussions. My dad is an Emergency Medicine PA and former Paramedic/Firefighter. My mom is an RN and has done it all lol. I became an EMT because: - I am...

We placed a new unit in service back in December and suffice to say I love it and so does the rest of the company. Its a 2009 Freightliner Chassis with a Horton Box and its a beast. Im 6' and can stand with boots on in the patient compartment. Some of the features I like on it that should...

I just put mine on my belt usually. I have a pair of the 5.11 EMS pants so I occasionally use the strap above the right rear pocket. I have put it in the "radio pocket" of my job shirt before but that usually just in 7-11 or the like. For us once on scene and until we clear the hospital...

The bit in quotation marks is the radio report while en-route to an ER from a call. This is regular 911 calls not hospital to hospital stuff. Where I run it is required on all Priority 1 and 2 pts that you call the ER on your portable radio which is in my area a Motorola 800Mhz XT-4000. While...

When it comes to giving reports to the nurse who is in charge of the pt I basically say to her what I am going to or have written in my report. As we all know that report is a giant CYA so it is gonna give the nurse and the other caregivers everything they need to know. With the charge nurse at...

Here is our new one it just went in service nine days ago on the 12th of December. It is awesome. It's a 2009 Freightliner Chassis with a Horton Emergency box. Here are some pics and yes it is absolutely bad*** and great to take calls in.

Not always true if you grow up around a dinner table with a FF/PM/PA and a Nurse. Its normal then lol. Some of the best EMS personnel my Dad and I have ever known wore a good bit of kit on their belt. I agree with Sasha they make some really good food. Didnt work yesterday twice when I...

Ranger Joes offers this one called the Stealth Medical Pack. It can be found here in ACU pattern. Or you can go to the manufacturer's website where they have many more options along with many other packs. Dont have any practical experience, but if Ranger Joes carries it then it is...

Ive become nauseated from the smell of 3 day old elderly diarrhea but haven't puked yet. Im the head EMT for our Corps here at VT and on the second day of Freshmen training like 10 of then decided they would throw up at breakfast. I watched a kid bring up his entire breakfast with barely...

Another addition. Being in a family like mine afforded quite a few opportunities to be witness to some extraordinary things. I was at the airshow at Martin State Airport when the F-117 lost a part of its wing and crashed. The reason I was there was because my day had picked up duty at the...

I am in no way a married man or a family man seeing that I am 20 and still in college but I can share my observations as a kid in a house where both parents are medical professionals. My dad is a former career FF/PM and now a Emergency Medicine PA of almost 10 years. My mom is an RN having...