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Job openings this week for Captain, Engineer, FF/EMT and PT FF/EMT in Placentia, CA. Only FD in Southern California where you don't have to be a medic and won't be running as many medical calls. 48/96 schedule

The Captain, who may or may not have been a medic is making medical transport decisions? I wonder if he was primary care for this patient or just being the guy in charge with the red hat? Delaying transport due to not liking the currently present and licensed BLS ambulance provider is gross...

I appreciate your perspective and agree with you. ANY proposer could've used motorcycles, squads or drones if they wanted. However, the selection of ambulances (type 2) for response is identical to what OCFA had been doing in the past with their medic units and the bonus is it provides an...

The RFP allowed for the ALS provider to choose their mode of deployment since there is already a contracted (EAS) Ambulance provider. Lynch’s proposal was to use ambulances as a non transport vehicle.

This is not a new idea. If I remember correctly, this is how ALS was started in Santa Ana. Many ALS programs ran out of hospitals at first. I believe the old Santa Ana program was a hospital based ALS program and later the City adopted it and ran their ALS ambulances. I believe it was in...

EMS for over 15 years, still love it

Taping the occlusive dressing is the ensure that air does not re-enter the chest cavity. Also, as the patient breaths and the lung fills, the air in the chest cavity will need to escape. Taping three corners allows the cavity to "burp" out any air that was causing the pneumothorax. A...

Shelby, State EMS regulations define the EMT recertification process. All Counties must follow the same process. Since you did earn a CA EMT certification based on competing an EMT course and passing the NREMT exam, once CA EMT expired you had up to 6 months to renew your CA EMT without...

The loss of Gerber is a loss to our EMS community.

I haven't seen anyone post a thread with the video about Mobile Integrated Healthcare provided by MedStar Mobile Healthcare in Fort Worth, Texas. So I'm sharing this with the community. See video in link provided below. Thank you to NAEMT for creating the video

Two for two, and going for the trifecta with community paramedics.

Thank you all for the comments. Competency and professionalism are the two most ingredients of success. Whether a Paramedic is a FF or not is irrelevant. A Paramedic is a licensed medical professional regardless of the employer. With the continued development of the NEMSIS 3 data set and...

Sharing an article from the Voice Of OC. New Fire Chief of OCFA contemplating a pilot in which private paramedics working for the 911 ambulance transport provider accompany the patient to the hospital so that the FD can go back into service for another immediate response. A new and...

OCEMS conducts the IFT-ALS Paramedic Accreditation course. Only a Paramedic employed by an IFT-ALS provider is eligible for the class. Those interested in the level of service should review IFT-SO-1 and IFT-SO-2 for the program standing orders. IFT-SO-3 is a good document to reference the...

Private Paramedics are competent and professional, and we're going to prove it.