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Lets play medic! Yup.. document and report!! Sounds like these EMT-B's were trying to play medic for the day. Should not have happened at all. How'd the arrest p/t make out?

If transporting to hospital: keep them awake to assess LOC, no point letting them sleep for 10 minutes then get waken up by ER staff to go thru the same procedures as you just did. Standby: when I am doing event standby (extreme sports, other sporting events) than while under my care I keep...

Only finger sweep if you see an object when you visually inspect airway. Other than that.. you are doing chest thrusts, same thing as CPR.. except you are doing it to a patient with a beating heart. If you can break ribs by doing CPR, than you can break ribs doing chest thrusts. "Life over...

AAA, makes perfect sense.

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Can't I just use my TASER? :sad:

Well all you Canadian medics.. I have finally registered myself for the BC's EMR. I've been trying to register myself.. but have been so freaking busy, that I just haven't had the time. Should be pretty dang easy lol. Bout time eh?

Technically it's Supervisor and/or traumateam1 But what I get called, is not appropriate enough to be posted on here.

Everytime I sit down for a Timmys! :sad:

I'm not telling.

Well, Kendall basically said it all. So, good luck!

By pulling the belt loops or belt, you are going to be pulling their hips, thats gonna pull the spine in order to pull the body down, will it not? If you need to re adjust someone on a back board or clam, you should ideally have several people to life the patient and then slide the back board...

Haha thanks for the laugh!

Thank you MrConspiracy. Smells like another troll eh? Hey.. wheres the popcorn... ^_^ But seriously.. where is the harm in a non-destructive, non-public prank? Where? It's harmless, and fun. And a lot of people in here have no idea what fun is.

Exactly! That is exactly what I would have done, informed dispatch that we were taking patient to emergency department. Dispatch is likely to ask for a landline as to why, but they won't (or at least shouldn't) argue with you, as they aren't there and they can't see what you are seeing. It's all...

So you live a boring fun less life for the tiny chance of that "what if" moment. Well what if you get hit by a drunk driver today driving to or from work? Better quit work and sit at home. Other than the flat tire, there really hasn't been anything bad here. Sticky door handles and KY on the...

But it frees up a medic to do other things right? Meds, manual defib, tube the patient, and all that fun stuff.

Always fresh.. Always Tim Hortons. Kinda catchy tune anyways.

Hmm 10:25 PM.. so thats how you spent New Years Eve. :P But seriously.. we all appreciate the hard work you've been doing.. just don't let the site crash.. I'll go thru withdrawls.

Yup. I record on my little note pad the serial number of the PCR, vitals, SAMPLE/PPRRRST, and things said that are worth noting. Don't put pts age, gender, name, address, race anything that could "violate pt confidentiality". In addition to that I wrote in black sharpie on the front of the...