Recent content by Martyn

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/patient-riding-in-hcfr-ambulance-dies-after-vehicle-hit-by-tractor-trailer-fhp

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg0m5n8g0do

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cz5r2xy5p48o

https://www.abcactionnews.com/scripps-news-investigates-the-deadly-toll-of-a-us-ambulance-shortage

How times change...13 years ago when I qualified my course was 3 days a week for 5 months!!!

Medevac helicopter https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66623809

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/ambulance-carrying-a-patient-crashed

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64513781

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64226359

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/expanded-mental-health-care-for-first-responders

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/crisis-center-of-tampa-bay-working-to-fix-emt-shortage-in-community

Once a medic, always a medic...good luck to you in whatever path you choose

I can easily take my Raptors apart for 'deep cleaning'

A bit like making a firefighter an EMT or paramedic (can of worms now open)

In training I was taught that when you take a BP the normal way it is written 124/68, if you palpate a BP then it is written down 124/P... THEREFORE, NO DIASTOLIC! (Lowest BP I have ever taken was 54/P, little old lady who was AOx4 chatting away)