Recent content by NiteTimeNick

You make a good point. I hesitated in recommending the site as it is about 90% crap that will never be seen by most EMS professionals. I'd recommend sticking to the " medical" category, there are some interesting, perhaps even informative, videos and pictures found there and these are the images...

Leopard print thong most days.

Smells are my Achilles heel. Nothing like the rotting flesh of a decubitus ulcer. I've never had a problem with visuals but +1 on exposure. I used to browse bestgore.com to desensitize myself to some of the nastiness one can come across in EMS. Be warned though, its not called bestgore for...

Flashlight! Comes in handy all the time, mostly at night

Third on deadlifts. I'm not very comfortable managing the length of barbells so I do sandbag deadlifts with dumbbells stood on end. I'll end up doing more reps with less weight for conditioning versus bulking up, sounds like that's what your looking for. I'd recommend some core exercises as...

Yep, BVM. Adult, pediatric, and neo-natal, amongst other things.

I carried the vent bag and felt like a big boy ; )

Those are some enthusiastic students!

LCES arrangment and plan if something should compromise your safety. Lookout Communicate Escape route Safety zone I dig the wildland mnemonic, used to be LACES including "awareness" I guess it found a new home in the 10&18.

I can vouche for experience at Tri-Med. It's one of the few companies that runs 24's (modified Detroit). The "day cars" work IFT's almost exclusively while 24 hour rigs work 911/emergency calls with Fire. Two of the 24 hour quarters are auto dispatch with Fire so they're actually first...