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I have just stopped caring... Actually, my polyester pants seem to stay rather hair free, but I think fleece is the worst offender when it comes to hair. My fleece jacket is the first thing off when I get home before I even acknowledge the dogs presence...

My best defensive tactic is also my worst enemy - my mouth. When all else fails, that magic orange button on my radio makes police appear out of thin air. Actually, we educate on defensive tactics and we also have a wonderful tool at our disposal, and one that is sure to spark debate - we are...

I'm not sure what everyone else has for an RSI protocol, but when I worked at a service that did RSI, we had a backup device like the CombiTube (I haven't RSI d in over 5 years). A BLS airway is a good airway but an RSI provides you definitive control if you are successful, it also streamlines...

If we want to keep a medication assisted intubation process like RSI and legitimize its presence in EMS to our hospital counterparts, then perhaps we should start pumping put some good research and not the crap that San Diego has pumped out... My understanding of Propofol, which is limited to...

Is standard in the Minneapolis area. One of our associate medical directors, John Ho, does a lot of speaking on excited delirium and also works with Taser on medical stuff. in addition to being a medical director for my agencyand a neighboring ALS fire department, he works one weekend a month...

It is my understanding that there is no statistical decrease in morbidity and mortality with beta blocker administration in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. I think there are also better things that you can do for these patients such as judicious admin of nitro via gtt at an...

Sorry to resurrect something older... My service used to have the reputation that "everyone has a good last walk" and since we switched to the PowerPro beds 5 years ago, the bed comes out of the truck more than it ever has and back injuries are non existent. Needless to say, I am a fan and...

While I really like the Motorola APX radios we switched to 18 months ago, if you are looking for other brands besides the big M, my little brothers police department uses EF Johnson radios on both their own private and our statewide 800 mhz 9600 baud system and they really don't care for them...