Recent content by homingmissile

Left cargo: stethoscope Right cargo: A gel-tip pen and I actually have one of those treck cutters instead of trauma shears. Left pocket: wallet Right pocket: cellphone Rear pockets: one pair of nitrile gloves each.

I just ordered a tried-and-true Littmann Classic II. I got the fancy "Caribbean blue with rainbow finish" so it would be distinguishable from everyone else's black/blue ones. The engraving should help, too.

My first code was a month ago, only my second duty ever as a newly minted EMT-B. 100+(!) year old woman in her bedroom. Firefighters were already on-scene doing CPR when we got there. I bagged, did some chest compressions, put a c-collar and spine boarded her, and got confused by some IV tubing...

Just checked nremt website. Passed!

Emt Took the exam this morning. Cut off at 75~. Awaiting results.

Whoa. That, in itself, sounds illegal to me.

Wait, so is it literally bath salts? Or is it a street name for a drug? I've heard conflicting reports.

Doesn't sound so inefficient and poorly performing to me. I thought you didn't like ignorant rhetoric? Let's see... abolished slavery but only decades after many other European and South American countries and only after its economic advantages began to wain. And then another 5 years...

Oh? Seems to me like having two entrenched political parties directly contradicts that statement. Option A with all its choices or Option B. Just ask the average American what he feels about voting for a third party. It's considered "throwing away your vote". You think that's the attitude of a...

I think you missed my sarcasm with the not wearing a seatbelt thing... SPOILER: It saves lives. Yes. Exactly. We're already paying a price, it's just not as visible as what we have coming, and that's where the problem lies. Earlier in this thread someone said that the hospitals just "write...

Most people don't feel like they need it until they do, do you follow me? And then it's too late because they have "pre-existing conditions". (Something the reform will ban insurance companies from doing.) I'm a careful driver, I shouldn't be forced to buy auto insurance, right? I shouldn't...

But wouldn't you prefer United Statesian?

Wait, really?

It's a felony in Virginia to assault EMS workers. Pending legislation to extend the protection to providers in the ER. http://www.ena.org/IENR/Documents/State%20Survey%20-%20Criminal%20Laws%20-%20Misdemeanor%20and%20Felony.pdf

"Critical care" is an advanced cert for paramedics in Virginia, I believe.