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The average human breathes 600-700 million times in their lifetime. Taping the plastic bag over your head must make you live forever!

If the immature behavior has a result that impacts the situation, then it is completely inappropriate. And if the pt. has to be exposed in the first place, there is probably something more pressing that will attract attention.

As in the concept of prehospital providers. It makes me kinda sad when people go "oh, the guys who drive the ambulances? Whats so important about that?" Most know what a paramedic is, at a rudimentary level.

Volunteering to get defibbed?

I feel as long as somebody has a rational decision making process on whether to render care outside of work, they are fully entitled to do as much or as little as they please. $0.02

Then the 16 year old should be in EMS. There is a time, and a place.

Sad but true, I have to explain what an EMT is to most people I bring it up with.

Perhaps setting up a thread at other EMS forums?

I would think there are quantifiable measures that could be taken to determine aptitude for EMS in junior members- such as acceptable grades, physical condition, legal record, etc. Add in some ride-alongs, and a clear outlining of what is to be expected, and you have the capacity to train a new...

Nobody is holding a gun to your head, your life is your own. Do with it what you think best.

They also follow the two in-two out rule with a fervor, junior FF do not get paired up with other junior FF in a situation.

The contest ends in ~ 15 days, right?

I think the only difference is that dangers may not be so readily apparent at the time of the incident. While the police officer runs the risk of being shot, the FF runs the risk of burning up, the EMT runs the risk of contracting a pathogen. In the heat of the moment, the lack of an immediate...

Fourthed. Best of luck!

Thats the spirit!

If its coming down and sticking, try and shovel some of it off to the side while it's still snowing. Better then trying to move all of it in the morning, while its frozen.

Now I'm going to be carrying a road flare on backpacking trips, never really thought about signaling for rapid SAR before. Out of curiosity, Mountain Res-Q, what would you recommend taking along as a basic first aid set while doing multi-night (but not dramatically extended) backpacking trips?

Firetender, Im going to be the human compactor again. You feel that because of your experience, you should enter the situation as quickly as possible, in order to most effectively render care. You also feel that it is detrimental to consider all the various problems you could have, when your...