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You can find more info about the psychomotor test here: https://www.nremt.org/rwd/public/document/psychomotor-exam Recommend basically just memorizing the skill sheets and jumping through the hoops on test day. Make sure you're familiar with all the critical fails and avoid them. It looks...

The camera gives you more control and the ability to see where you're going, so you can avoid the turbinates - so the answer is no. By contrast, with an NPA we are just shoving a soft piece of plastic in there and hoping it makes it to the other side without getting caught up on things.

It doesn't have to face the septum, I had never heard of this before your post... I always just lubed it up and shoved it in there... But I think I can see the wisdom of it now. Check out this really cool video that shows what the inside of the nasopharynx looks like. This video is of the...

I think I get it after watching this video 5 times. Do you find doing it this way makes it easier?

Wow. I wonder if it's some deeply ingrained evolution thing? Maybe standing around uselessly while shrieking at the top of your lungs was helpful when your tribe got attacked by lions or something?

Really this is a conversation that should be had with your grandson's physician / his parents. If he is at risk of having an anaphylactic reaction from a bee sting, he probably should have an EpiPen with him if he's going into the woods (or an adult should be carrying one). If the airway is...

Did you figure out the email address?

It tells me I don't have permission to view.

Where the chatroom go? I'm so lonely.

I forget if you're in the UK or Canada or something where the entry level to EMS is like a bachelor degree. OP is "a freshly minted EMT" which in the USA means he recently finshed a 120-hour high school level course, and was thrown out into the wild with no experience and no ability to perform...

Start lifting ASAP. Forget cardio - You need to be able to lift 100 pounds minimum to do this job IMO... Preferably be able to lift a lot more than that if you want to not injure yourself while moving patients around. If you want to be a cop, start training wrestling and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu...

We used walkie talkies too, but I remember not taking it all that seriously... Forcing people to perform in front of the class might make them give more thought and spend more time organizing a decent report, and also simulate that pressure/anxiety of giving a report to a room full of people...

One thing that might be a cool homework assignment: Have people write up their radio traffic and hospital hand-off report for those scenarios. At the start of each class, have 1-2 students come up and give their reports in front of all the other students, pretending they are a trauma bay full...

Very very likely that you passed! The better you do, the harder it gets, until it's asking paramedic+ level questions. So it's good that it seemed really hard! If it stopped right at 70 you either did really well, or really poorly. Since it was asking such difficult questions, you were...