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Keep up the IFT scenarios, a lot of people don't like doing IFT; but I think you learn a lot from them I know I did, and I miss them

I love the old EMS tale about pulse locations and BP. I have been as low as 62/24 and had strong radial pulses. Just 3 weeks ago as a ED patient (getting staples in my head) I was 78/30 and the ED nurse said that the monitor was wrong because I had a radial pulse. Doctor wanted to push...

When we got something like a sending facility asking us to do something that wasn't normally in our scope of practice, we would call the receiving hospital Doctor (medical control for the transport) and say this is what is going on, do you have a problem signing off on me doing it so that the...

I haven't been in EMS as long, but I am glad I am working somewhere now that it will take a major accident to disable me out (or helping another crew with lift assist) between power cots/load and fire running with every run a lifting injury is slim to none.

PT job has no tax base for EMS (none for fire either but they go begging to the Casino's that the EMS owner won't do). All insurance and private pay (and it is $6,000 for each transport) and other companies that she owns keeps her in business

Transferring mid point is a good/bad way of missing something in the report (oral and written). I used to do long distance transports in and out of Indianapolis, loved them now I do them because the closest hospital at my FT job is 42 miles gate to door, and I have been up to 60 miles past the...

Most areas can run Epi and Dopamine drips (or at least where I work/ed and have talked to can). So what is the difference between dripping/titrating meds and a pump? they are more precise and you have to be trained on them Where I used to work, I transported a lot of different medications on...

wow,, just wow

Also in the same county on the same day; a FF/EMT drowned in ice covered reservoir trying to save multiple people. RIP brothers

Merry Christmas to you all, from working in NW Utah

Sopiqoti learned her father was at the hospital at 5:20 p.m., and doctors needed her there immediately to get a signature so they could perform surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. “I could hear my father groaning in the background. We were told he was pretty bad, a fractured skull and...

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So if he had bought private insurance he could have had the emergency heart surgery faster? Do they tell the everyday citizen that?

In Indiana one of the helicopter services would fly with an ED or Trauma Resident, but the bird and crew lived at a Level I hospital. They would go with Doc and Medic

Yea calling for a helicopter when we are off duty is a tough one. I have done it a couple of times on my way home or to my PT job (120 miles from home): I tell dispatch what I have and where it is and who I am; and request a helicopter. But the dispatchers know me, so that is different. I...

It is a government issued form; This is what we use now. My old company was just a Word form that had the Month and Year and Narcotic Box on the top. Down the left side was dates 1-31. Then Out: Dispatcher name/signature, medic Name/Signature, quantities, medic name/signature and Dispatch...

People who keep saying that Medical Care is so wonderful in the UK: but they don't know. I live by a gentleman here in the States that is from UK; 2 years ago he told his brother was coming to visit him from the UK (Just outside of London), because he was waiting to have open heart surgery...

Between us and the pharmacy yes.

What are some of the Cardiac Rhythms you saw on the practical?

I may be more tired than normal; but I don't know what you are trying to ask. We never had issues with keeping track. Every narcotic box (locked metal box) was counted at least 1 time every day. Twice if it was signed out to a medic crew. DEA came in for a surprise visit and they liked it...