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I'm pretty sure he/she just makes up scenarios for their own amusement and these aren't actual calls, if they are I feel sorry for these patients constantly getting oral glucose shoved down their throat...

RustyShackleford Canadian Recce/Recon 2002-2010 OEF/Op Medusa/Battle for Sperwan Ghar Spent most of my time in the Zhari district in Kandahar which I am sure many 10th MTN and Marines are used to since 2007 Went to college after leaving the military to be a paramedic. Looking to maybe do...

Chai something or other I had at Green Bean in KAF was the best caffeine beverage I have ever had, I need this in a local shop :sad:

Not that squeamishness has ever been a problem of mine but as has been stated when it has to be done you aren't worried about the blood and or guts you just do your job and move on.

"You can judge a society on the way they treat their animals".......

I wish I was around your medics I really do because after numerous deployments I had bad experiences with "inexperience" mainly. The Estonian medics were leaps and bounds ahead of our medics in both training and knowledge and how to apply these things properly. Most other medics that I ran...

Not to spin this out anymore but my experiences with "field medics" in Afghanistan was absolutely terrible, I witnessed one stick himself with morphine by incorrectly holding the old style auto injector type morphine upside down. It was one thing that motivated me to go to medic school and...

Just a LAV 3 minus the M242 turret from what I can tell. Used the lav3 domestically and in Afghanistan and can quite comfortably say its one of the more structurally sound vehicles when it comes to IED with the tires usually absorbing the blunt of the blast. If it had an angled hull it might...

That model doesn't no, the only LAV I know that floats that general dynamics makes is the LAV25 or Coyote variant in Canada.

I second this motion, I am lucky enough to work out of a small rural hospital so I have a great relationship with our nurses. I believe its easier to have a good working relationship with nurses in smaller facilities, in large ER's you are just another face a lot of the time.

We only carry straight caths, last time I used a butterfly was in the army but to be honest I don't notice a difference they are both tubes with holes in them.

The soldiers creed usually goes out the window once there's a few beers involved...

No if you go back and read the posts I was commenting that the "clear or not clear" doesn't offer me much as a receiving medic.

I don't transport dead patients, I don't work for the funeral home.

It really provides no information whatsoever, you are better off letting the medic know the patients current respiratory effort, 02 sat, ETCO2 if your service uses it.

We obviously operate on different types of service/care then, I don't worry about performing tasks based on whether or not things may be seen as this or that. I provide ALS and BLS care to a patient who needs my assistance and based on my education and protocols decide what is best for my...

I do it on every patient, it takes about 6 seconds and can actually give me some clinical enlightenment on a patients condition, as a paramedic we only have a few diagnostic tools to use, your stethoscope being one, why waste it.

Hopefully you have a good Valium script this time...

Gotta use firefighters for something....

See my reply to your other post, read a book rather than write out scenarios...