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I've seen these things in use a few dozen times. All kinds of patients, all kinds of ages, all kinds of sizes; never heard a crunching sound. You sure someone wasn't eating a Kit Kat bar during the code? :rolleyes:

Thank you Sasha for posting the information about the Auto Pulse. You saved me a lot of writing! I've been privileged to see the AutoPulse in use on at least 40 to 50 patients in the last few years. I was also on hand to photographically document the first cardiac save in Missouri whereby an...

Hello and welcome!

But as Rid pointed out, we do lead the world in R&D for healthcare including pharmaceuticals. We do pay for this research which is passed along to outside the United States at a lower cost. Here is an excerpt from the RAND Corporation Europe report: The United States is the world leader in...

Just curious; what was the name of the documentary?

Congratulations! Sounds like it was fun!

I know Rid has touched on this subject last September, but it seems other posters here are not aware of the sweeping EMS educational and Scope of Practice changes that will be implemented starting in 2010 thru 2014. These significant changes include a National EMS Certification Agency, Required...

I also agree with this. I travel with EMS all over the country and clearly the use of sirens has markedly reduced, especially when transporting a patient. There does seem to be an increased awareness of its appropriate use. But, in areas of long lights, heavy traffic, etc., the use of lights...

Just like EMS, getting your pilots license is all by the hours. Do you know how many accelerated flying schools there are out there? I know guys who got their single engine land ticket in just two weeks from an accelerated school. My flight instructor, who now flys for American Airlines, went...

Wanna bet?

He's responding to an off topic question that was posted earlier.

What's with your attorney kick on here? Do you really believe lawyers are lurking around here to jump out and start slapping people with no names a lawsuit? Certainly you are jesting, right?

With some of the discussion lately around O2 use, I spotted this Bledsoe article that was just posted on JEMS.com: http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/columns/Bledsoe/the_oxygen_myth.html

Only the rented one my daugher rides every Monday.

Do you believe in UFOs?

I would agree to a point. The point is, there is a time and place for everything and a public berating right on the aftermath of the rescue seems not to be the time nor the place. Of course, we weren't there and that makes it tempting to armchair judge this situation. The chief may have had...

Here is a brief on the annoucement.: http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?id=9089&siteSection=1 From what I learned on the news today, he is a paramedic and former volunteer fireman.

Ah, well then another round of congratulations!

Quite a bit! It's been exciting to watch and be a part of the changes over the past 30 some odd years.

Sounds like the Chief needs to retire. But, then this is Massachusetts, right?