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So did he require an ambulance, or is this thread just off-topic?

Yeah, God forbid that someone convicted of tearing tags off of mattresses be allowed around actual hospital linen! :rolleyes:

I wonder what that means. :unsure:

If she is gagging on an OPA, she is not completely unresponsive. If she is gagging on an OPA, she doesn't need an OPA. If she doesn't need an OPA, then she darn sure doesn't need an ETT. Not every unconscious person needs an ET tube. An ET tube is not simply a lazy medic's way of getting out...

Could be because being an EMT is not a career. It's just a job, like driving a taxi or a wrecker, but with a lot fewer openings, and a lot more people seeking them. There are a dozen schools cranking out hundreds more EMTs every month in LA. Most of them never, ever get an EMS job. And those...

You might lose that bet. I've been in that situation, and I never turned into an animal. They all deserve to sleep in the same jail with the criminals.

Base pay for a GS-6 is $30k a year, which is $580 a week (roughly E-7 pay). Not bad for someone with a mere 120 hours of training, and better than any private ambulance job out there. There are few things as boring as being a BLS ambulance driver on a stateside military installation though...

The plan you are talking about is indeed doable. But it is not a particularly good plan for your professional development. In fact, it is completely backwards from the course which would give you the greatest educational benefit. You will be much less of a paramedic than you could be if you...

Seriously. The last thing I want is for my tubed patient to become un-gorked in the field. But then again, I wouldn't have tubed this one in the first place.

Unfortunately, except for APGAR, you won't see any of those acronyms in the field. They are all just mnemonic devices for learning in EMT school, not normal terms used in medicine. And even APGAR is pretty darn rare in the field. I've been at this for thirty-six years, and I can't tell you...

Makes me wonder if someone didn't overmedicate with the RSI.

This is unfortunately true. There are a lot of low-class losers in EMS, and in EMS management positions. They may actually hold it against you if you show a little class. For twenty years, I went to EMS job interviews in dress slacks, shirt and tie. Although it was how I felt comfortable...

Completely agreed! In it's current form, the EFMB really serves very little purpose. If he's smart, he only listed places that he doesn't want to go.

LOL! I see the Red Cross is maintaining their tradition of staying ten years behind the times in their courses. FAIL.

I may be confused, but I took the OP to be talking about the hiring process, not the initial training process.

And quotes like that are the reason I am here! It took me over three decades, and making every mistake in the book to come to the level of enlightenment that I have attained. If I can help one person get there just a little faster and easier than I did, it makes it all worth it. Thanks!

While I completely understand the problem where Sasha is, where all EMS is unfortunately fire-based, I am surprised that you don't see that many females where you are. More than half the AB medics I know are females.

That same article includes security guards, lol. My plumber responds to emergencies. I guess he's public safety too! Epic fail.

No you did not.

Excellent advice. It is the very same reason that we encourage EMTs to go straight to paramedic school without wasting time on basic experience.