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Alright well my bad then

Acadian runs 911 in bastrop. I think amr may do a little 911 in the rural areas north of Austin. Austin travis county EMS hires bls emt's since the starting position for atc Ems is medic-1 for a year then you have an option of going to medic 2 through a teeks program. That's probably your best...

I mean he just needed help with a project and dude's kind of getting blasted. Just a lot of excessive responses so far.

Lotta people playing holier than thou with this thread. Help him with his survey or don't

I'm bipolar and the funny thing is I've been on the other end of that psych hold and I've also been on zyprexa. I wouldn't want what happened to me to happen to anyone else, and I definitely wouldn't want it to happen to me again. I don't have a problem with speaking out and already having a...

Newly certified emt starting medic school in the fall. I hear a lot of talk about burn out and basically becoming miserable. Am I doomed to this fate? What keeps you going in a job full of moments of complete boredom punctuated by sheer horror? What are your thoughts?

Fair enough

My instructor is the most benificial person in my ems career and a fantastic medic and I most likely misinterpreted what he said. I'm probably the one ignorant of the facts but I won't have anyone talk down about that man

I got one of them fancy EMT LIFE Cpr face shields long before I became a member. I want more swag. I need more swag. Bedazzled trauma shears

As an emt fresh from the national registry without any job experience I've never bagged a patient. I imagine it's much harder to get a good seal and chest rise than it is on our mannequins at school. Is it more difficult than what I've been taught? Tips and tricks? This may be a simple question...

A paramedic cert will do it

If breathing is inadequate then you have no choice but to ventilate, even though you risk increasing inthoracic pressure, further compressing organs. If you have a sucking wound then burping the dressing may allow you to be more aggressive with your ventilations. Ultimately this guy will need a...

We were taught application of them in our basic class, although the instructor wouldn't alllow us to inflate them on our peers in fear it would break clots in our legs and trigger a pulmonary embolism

Causing female syncopal episodes since 96'

You'd think that the cops would'nt have such a hard time figuring out if it was a real ambulance or not yet here they are. Unsettling

Rule #1: scene not safe. I'm not going in there

lung sounds? maybe a pulmonary embolism. probably altered because of severe hypoxia. get him to the metro hospital, he's altered and critical and probably needs some kind of specialist lord only knows