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We give up to 25mcg per dose at five minute intervals, no maximum. The low loading dose means it can take a while to work, but it's usually quite effective. We don't use morphine. If its traumatic pain, however, and fentanyl doesn't work, we can move to ketamine, either by itself or with fentanyl.

Sorry, didn't see this for a while. Yep, I went through ECU for my degree, as the choice was ECU or ECU. As afar as getting advanced standings for units, you need to have the certificates for units you have done, and what was covered, which can then be cross checked. ECU won't just give you a...

Thanks all, I'll try and clear some things up from my end. My wife is from BC, and has lots of family in AB. We met in BC, Vernon to be exact, and we love it around there. Hence my choices of province. As for rural part time jobs, the BC paramedics web page says all ACP staff are...

Thanks for that. Where did you do your training?

So far a Very HIgh Up person involved in BC training has told me that I won't need any more education (thank you bachelors degree!), and I just need to prove competent in their skills. I have 95% of them covered, with the exception of NG tubes and some drugs (ie we use salbutamol, but not...

I don't know of any service that will let you work on a short term basis, as they will want you to do a training course, mentoring period, etc. having said that, I don't know all of the services in Australia, so I could well be wrong. Also, I have no idea about Israeli qualifications and who...

Unless the agency I want to work for is offering champagne showers from the hands of beautiful girls, or they are the only agency in the state, then I would say no thanks. At this stage at least, I'm not that desperate.

I'm moving to Canada from Australia in a few years with my family and my Canadian wife. I am currently working at roughly the equivalent of ACP or EMT-P, with more education but a few less skills. From what I have found I will be able to work in either province without any extra training, once I...

hey, if they want to think of me in a three way, that's their own fault. In other news, if an employer asked to look at my Facebook page, they would be told one of three things: a) when I joined Facebook I agreed to protect my password and not give it out to others, as such I am bound not to...

As others have said, St John (and the rest of Australia) require a fairly high level of knowledge to get a job. To be sponsored for a visa, you would probably need to be EMT-P or higher. EMT-B or -I would need your own visa, followed by a year or two as a "junior", before you are promoted to...

Where I work (west Australia), if you want to be a paramedic, you need a degree. People who work in an ambulance without a degree are either ambulance officers who are completing their degree, or they are volunteers who work only in rural areas. I think that having such a highly skilled...

We use 200mg in 2ml, then it can be drawn up into 20ml for IV, or given 'neat' for IM.

Kick myself for drinking lots of coffee to prepare for a busy night.

And have you seen the boys choir? I heard they are very good.

Wow. We run a completely different system over here. We have either two paramedics or paramedic/ambulance officer. (AO is training to be paramedic). We do two days and two nights, and you drive one day and night, and attend the others. Driver checks the van itself, O2, swaps the defib...