Recent content by Iowaemtb

Guess we have it lucky, we do not pay rent nor do we own our home. We live here and are responsible to some extent for upkeep. The home belongs to my father in law and is part of the family farm.

We do it for those reasons as well. We did a stick on a guy who had a minor accident on the interstate, he was confused, sweating profusely, etc. One of the not so bright firemonkey's said he was drunk and that was that, I took his BGL and it was 40, he was still conscious, administered...

When you have a call and it's medical or even a mva, do you routinely check the BGL? Why or why not? Is it part of your protocols? Just your routine assessment?

The patient was A-fib, that is all I know. Since it's a small community hospital they were sending him to a cardiac center about 50 miles away.

When I can get in contact with the medic who was there I will ask what the strip showed. It may be in the next couple days before I can get in contact with him. I know that many of these homeless (urban outdoorsman) have many medical problems and mental illness. I do know some EMS...

I was unable to get my hands on the strip. Yes it would have been nice.

The area we take care of includes three truckstops. We pretty much get everything at the truckstops, dead bodies, diabetics, beat up driver from a fight, heart attacks. Yesterday we were called to a 58 year old with chest pains. He is waiting for us at the door, I get out and he gets right in...

Actually it was a retorical question.

We were called to assist another dept. yesterday in a train v.s. vehicle accident, which was a fatality. We were called out early this am to one of the local truck stops, and the same time that same other dept. was called out to a train v.s. car accident. Two calls back to back of the same...

When I think of sports injury, I think about extremeties and immobilization, is that going to be included as well? Every year before the football season begins we have a ceu class on sports injuries which also includes to remove or not to remove the helmut.

As a volunteer agency we don't have a drug or lift test. However we assisted on a call in a neighboring community for lift help. This lady weighed in at about 560 lbs she had fallen out of her chair in a doorway. Well seven people showed up, we did get her out of the house by sliding her on...

Approx what area of Iowa are you? Where do you plan to go to medic school?

All of our fire and ambulance units here have taken the Nims courses and certifications. We constantly put it to use. One incident we had one year at Rodeo, there was a fire in town and burned into a power line knocking out power to the rodeo grounds. They kept running the rodeo, but the...

I have a friend who lives near Divide, which is just west of Woodland Park. She gives me daily updates. I have said prayers for the safety of our brothers and sisters in the Fire and Ems companies responding to these terrible fires. I hope there is a break soon so they can get ahead of the...

In the training I have had to participate in, out of class and in class was the proper use of the KED. It was also part of our practicals. I think that I have used it once in the past 25 years.