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I'm a volunteer FA/CPR/AED instructor, teach about one or two classes a month, it's a good gig. What else do you want to know?

After being extricated from the car, they might quickly check him over once again and make sure he's still breathing/circulating okay, but would want to move him to the ambulance quickly because of his potentially unstable condition - this is known as "load and go." The c-collar would be put on...

Everybody, read the full article before you pose questions that were already answered. It wasn't a true ambulance, it was a non-emergency patient transport vehicle, like a van service to take patients to/from nursing homes, doctor's appointments, dialysis, etc. It was only manned by one...

1) Yes, police, fire, and EMS would all be dispatched. Police would probably show up first and start performing basic care. Fire and EMS would show up later, since this is in a rural area they could be from a VFD and take a while longer to respond. Fire would be needed to extricate the man...

My uncle is a medic, and my grandmother was a nurse. Dad's a banker and mom's a writer.

The NREMT does offer a First Responder certification, as do the great majority of states. Minnesota does, I have one.

My uncle who's a medic and my EMT instructor who is also a street medic both have told me that they have encouraged hypoglycemic diabetics to refuse transport after they've raised their blood sugar via oral or IM glucose and then had solid food to eat.

I'm going to come off as terribly arrogant for this, and I really do apologize, but we're learning ETT and dual lumens as a supplemental skill in our EMT-B class.

There aren't many EMS providers currently hiring, at least not in the Twin Cities. If you can get your license from the Minnesota EMSRB, you might just be able to explain your situation to a potential employer as to why you don't have NREMT certification. I've had mixed experiences with the...

It happened this winter (before I had any EMS experience/interest) to my sister at my dad's house. They called for police and fire backup. One of the medics took some equipment with him and rode on the back of my dad's ATV back to my sister. His assessment found possibility of spinal injury...

It's the middle of winter in Minnesota, and all the lakes are frozen. You are dispatched at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon to a report of a 12yo female who rolled an ATV on the lake and is "awake but won't move". Patient is in the middle of the lake, so instead of dispatching you to the family's...

This is posted in the wrong section, an admin will move/delete it soon. Anyways, if this is a job where they're staffing the ambulance ready to run to 911 calls, the company should require them to wear a uniform, that goes without saying, and they should be wearing it, that also goes without...

My elderly grandfather with dementia took a fall at my dad's house a couple weeks back. He had a deep laceration above his eye, across his right thumb, and couldn't move his right hand at all. My dad calls me (I'm half an hour away out with friends) asking where I am and how fast I can make it...

I'm an ARC FA/CPR instructor, and although I'm only trained to instruct lay responders, I hold a professional rescuer cert too and have since I started lifeguarding in 2007. CPR for Lay Responders is 30:2, for everyone, all the time. They're not trained in two-person response. CPR for...

Off topic question, how does transporting prisoners work? Did guard(s)/LEO ride with/behind you?