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It is amazing to watch when everything goes as expected, was not trying to be a smart a** with my comment earlier, just my experience is that the er nurses generally will not jump in and do compressions unless there is no other choice but this is at a larger ER with lots of help.

The links all open fine here, Alabama USA Prayers for all the responders and their famlies

Like most others here have stated If you are going to use military service as just a "job" please do not even think about it, I cannot speak for other branches of the military but the Marine's are great, very intense training, and every marine is a rifle man first, all marine medics are Navy...

One service I work for uses the Zoll E series with all the bells and whistles, the other service still uses the LP 10, but that finally gonna change, state is gonna require 12 leads and ability to transmit on all ALS transport units by end of year. The first monitor I ever used was an MD3.

Both services I work for use V-Vac and no one likes them except management and they don't use them.

Hey were either EMS,Nursing, Fire or Law Enforcement, (basicly public safty)were not exactly known for our tact when dealing with each other, meaning we usually say what's on our mind, tell him/her they are bothering you using your choice of words. problem solved.

CapnSmurf, wow! you actually witnessed a nurse doing cpr? most of the time it has been my experience that the ems crew, er tech or security usually end up doing compressions nothing like riding the stretcher while holding on and doing compressions all while worring about dislodging the tube.

I too remember to day of doing mouth to mouth, stopping long enough to spit the pt's vomit from your mouth and then continuing, I remember using the EOA, always had a problem with snapping the mask in place and ,holding a good seal, Is it not blasphmy to work in ems or the fire service and have...

yes the pulse ox has a place in your assessment but what about treating the pt and not the equipment? It's very rare that pt's that I have come in contact with over the years need o2 via nrb mask @ 15 lpm, a NC @ 2 lpm will be fine with most pt contacts made, unless they are on home oxygen with...

It is appeareantly a mute point now but the University of South Alabama(USA) offers ad BS program in EMS.

Glad to see someone with ties to the state of Alabama, what part of the state and where did you go to school.

My first time doing CPR was back in the early 80's probably around or 84 when i got my basic, I was doing my first clinical rotation on the Ambulance we responded way out in the county to an unresponsive elderly male, back then there was no such thing as enhanced 911, you were lucky to even have...

We have been told that billing is not our area of expertise and we really don't know if medicare or medicaid will pay for a call, but in fairness to the pt and family if I feel certin that telling grandmaw that medicare won't cover ambulance transport for a hang nail is our responsibility, as an...

All of the above mentioned stuff plus an extra uniform because your gonna get peed on, puked on, s**t on and bled on sometime during your shift.

I work for a hospital based service, yes we do random drug testing, if you and your partner are involved in an accident of any kind you and your partner will be drug tested, if you or your partner are injured on the job both will be drug tested.

Not a bad thing at all, just wanted to be absolutely perfect, they never gave any indication if you were doing good or bad, Guess I did good because I aways passed the first time, question, do ya'll have nurses rush to partner with medics during the New and Improved ACLS mega code( maby I'll...

always had our Medical Director, an ER doc, and a cardiologist, they threw every strip that they could generate on a MD3 at ya and expected you to actually know drug doses and actions. Dr Campbell the author of BTLS now ITLS was our medical director, he always was an evaluator for ACLS and...

Alot of experience on this thread(old guy's). Do you remember when ACLS was a real course and it was just you and 3 doctors in your mega code. those were the good ole stressful days

We do not have mandated OT shifts BUT we work a 24 shift with 4 shifts meaning every one gets 8 hrs ot every week except the "short week when your work day fall on wednesday then you only get 24 scheduled hrs that week, of course we always have part time and per diem people willing to work when...

I would love to tell some of the "sick people" who are standing at curb side with suit case in hand who insist on ambulance transport about the oregon law. We beat oregon at football but they are smokin us on ems rules.