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although i couldn't agree with you more on this issue, sometime these events require any type of medical personnel on standby for insurance issues. My department gets contracted out all of the time. Sometimes out of our ASA, so we don't bring our ambulance since we can't transport. Ive done...

I don't know what to say, I had no problem with the exam. But yet again I don't have dyslexia. Maybe try talking to a "professional" that can prescribe you something. I assume you've studied and did the usual reading and writing, practice exams.

Not necessarily EMS but fire...but since there seems to be a lot of fire guys here I'm going to go ahead and ask. If my department follows OSHA standards, does it mean that structure gear has to meet NFPA 1971? OSHA says: 1910.156(e)(3)(ii)The performance, construction, and testing of...

Not to mention rural or recreation areas (camp grounds, lakes...etc) where the closest ambulance may be 30 mins away. This is the case for my area.

@VentMonkey I don't see the point in civies just responding to an active structure fire or wreck, its more of a hazard. And from what I understand, pulse point only notifies cardiac arrests that happen in public areas. So you would't know if your next door neighbor was having an arrest.

For notifications other than CPR for like wrecks and fires, I assume you have to be affiliated with the local agency correct?

Does anybody on this page live in a city with the PulsePoint bystander notification app? Has it worked well in your city? Have you ever responded to a code while off duty because of this app? And while on duty, have you encountered anybody who was on scene because of it? Just curious because in...

If being a basic is what they enjoy, more power to them. Just like somebody being a CNA for 30 years. A lot of people use that as a stepping stone to become an RN. Personally though, I wouldn't want to be a glorified taxi driver for the rest of my life.

Personally, just being an EMT shouldn't be a career. You should use it as a stepping stone to move up in the health care chain. An EMT cert that can be obtained in 2 months is really nothing, find something you want to absolutely do in health care and go back to school.

I was at work talking with an RT very briefly about this topic. I guess RT's are more geared towards CCT, and taking care of neonates since my go to HEMS agency specialzes in neonatal transports to tertiary care facilities. The RT's here told me that RT's arent trained to provide ALS, the only...

No, but giving breathing treatments and setting up the biPAP doesn't seem like a good prereq experience for HEMS

Well of course there is a difference between am intern year resident and 3rd year resident. But pre-hospital and the ED is a lot different as well.

Well arent EM Residents straight out of med school? I would way rather trust a RN or Medic who has had several years of experience (which is what is required to my understanding). I mean you cant really replace the years of actual field experience, so compared to the experienced RNs, residents...

@Remi you mentioned you had EM Residents on board. Did they do anything? Is it helpful to have a person who is new to medicine?

Thanks for all of the info, definitely learned a lot. I guess I don't think about the critical care transport side of HEMS too much because I only interact with them in the field for traumas. When I work shifts in the ICU, I only see those RTs check blood gas and give nebulizer treatments and...

I have seen one local HEMS agency having RT's on their helicopters. I was just wondering what the point is having an RT on the helicopter. What purpose do they serve? I mean can't a medic and an RN do everything a RT can do in the prehospital setting?

I don't think you can get HAZMAT Ops for free online. You can only get Hazmat Awareness. You kind of have to pay.

You sleep all the time. Thats what firefighters do.

The second I graduated highschool, I had to start paying rent so I moved out. I have been financially independent since graduation day... Oh and I stopped living with my parents at age 15

That is kind of ridiculous. I know a lot of places where Medics make nowhere near that much.