Recent content by medic3974

Cardiac Asthma... Thats what I call a wheezing CHFer. Albuterol not going to help. It will make it worse by increasing the heart rate and putting a patient into a hypoxic fit. Here is the scenario your faced with 40 to 50 yoa m c/o trouble breathing. Paramedic school taught you to look for JVD...

Good post Veneficus and Asst. Chief. I believe this system needs its own hero. Someone with the political savy and smart enough to surround themselves with the right people to designs a EMS system that could work. A system that would provide more rights to the employees of the system and some...

I use to like being better than some other paramedics. It use to feel good when I would come in to a call that was going to hell in a hand basket and everyone would feel a sense of relief when I would walk in. I think education is a lot of it. I agree, how will anyone take us seriously when you...

Why is it when you put it out their, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, about this job people always come up with you need a vacation or you need a new job. To answer the question's, yes I would love a vaction and yes it is time for me to move on. Not for the reason of being burned out...

Good question. We ran a call this morning that is a perfect example of what EMS is all about. Female patient c/o pink eye. Demanding to be transported to an already over burden ER. She was full of all the usual dramatics. Towel tied around her head to cover her eyes and the slow painful death...

I`ve had it with this job. It was a career and a profession, now it has turned into the largest sanatation company in the USA. Government let it fail by not educating citizens how and when to call 911. Private EMS folks were looking to get rich so transport everything. Fire Departments attempt...