Recent content by IrishEMT

My first priority is my own safety and my second is not getting sued. If the scene is safe for me, then I don't want to risk a lawsuit because I didn't feel like treating the patient. That being said, part of "not getting sued" is if I don't trust myself around the patient (think if I had...

Hey hey hey, you remember what article 3 said! "You shall not criticize or voice opinions about the competency of other responders or personnel." I actually had a really awesome station, and I think we worked with two of your folks, too. It was a mostly slow day outside of one wave of...

Actually, I've had this happen at the scene of a 6 pt rollover with entrapment. My pt: Living, AMS. Spouse and child: Trapped in car, but living Friend and other child: Living, already transported Other friend: Ejected and DOA. Pt: Where's my friend? Me: He's already at the hospital. Pt: No...

Started ride-alongs at 15 and a sophomore in high school and was certified 8 months later when I was 16 during the summer before my junior year. I'm 19 now, so it will be 4 years this December.

As long as you know the risks, go for it. You only fall in love with people you know. Big no on the patients, though. That's pretty wildly inappropriate.

What do you mean "support"? Physically, I'd guide them to the cot with one hand on their back and the other under their arm.

First, if this train was going full-speed, those people would be known as "pink mist", if they weren't in a car on the tracks. But onto questions: We triage and set up an incident command. Usually first person on scene, or highest ranking, will be IC. We typically get what info we can out of...

Get an iPhone. It's got some application you can download that gives commercial names, chemical names, side effects, reasons for, and contraindications of a ridiculous amount of meds.

Ambulance 1: Ambulance 1 to Ambulance 2. What is the status of your unit? Ambulance 2: Ambulance 2 to Ambulance 1. My unit is back in service.

Sketchy. If she wasn't on warfarin or coumadin, I'd be suspicious. Old people bruise easily, but facial bruising is weird. Any idea if it was from the event? Also, why did her family have no idea how long she was on the floor? Yeah, I'm kind of overly-vigilant about elder abuse, too. I ALWAYS...

No pens No watch (I lost TWO beautiful glow-in-the-dark-face vitals watches in the rig, and the one I have now is terrible)

I know this is going to go against everything everyone else has said, but I say let it drop. You already spoke to her superior, there's no need to take it further as long as her behavior stops. You're a campus squad, which means you are just as much a social organization as you are a...

Just now: Me: So what'd you have for dinner tonight? Pt: *vomits all over me* ... soup. Me: I can see that.

We have a problem of stairwells that are too windy to easily move a pt using a stairchair, and too skinny for a reeves. Much love if you can resolve this problem. Changing stairwells not an option.

Hah, no. But I have known some people to call in radio checks at 4 am to mess with the sleeping crew. Such was my first shift at the new company. Sigh.