Recent content by PotatoMedic

I'm all for fire based EMS. As long as it gets identical benefits and comparable if not better pay. (A single role medic should make more than a FF/EMT.). They perform 60-80% of the departments call volume. They are not second class employees. When fire based EMS figures that out I'll be...

Top gun too

It's their IFT team.

I welcome my Boston Dynamics AI overlord to take my job.

That explains why I saw a fire engine with a "Student Driver" sticker.

I back into most parking spaces! Does that count?

Cyanoacrylate. Or "the RC airplane glue" as I call it.

I glued my kids head back together once.

For some reason no one likes to publish their protocols except Ada county. Canyon closely follows Ada counties protocols. I'd say they are a fairly progressive scope. Idaho State EMS also has protocols that I'd assume a lot of the more rural agencies follow. The HEMS/CCT world does have an...

Define central Idaho. Ok... So here's the scoop. Air st Luke's, Life flight Network, classic air, and air Idaho rescue (air methods) are the 4 air med providers in Idaho. ASL is the only hospital based program. Classic is technically associated with intermountain health but that's a...

We may have rosc but what's the modified rankin score for this?

Appreciate it sir. It's definitely surreal to think about.

Agreed... Just about everyone I know says the same thing. But the Internet always provides and the comments defending them on Facebook are killing my braincells.

It's funny watching people defend the firefighter who drove around railroad crossing arms and then got hit by a train. One even said EVOC allows it.

Yes you will get an AHA BLS CPR card doing RQI. The idea is that frequent training and refreshers improves CPR performance than one big training ever two years.