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Go for comfort Speaking from personal experience the best thing we can do in the field is try to get the patient in a position of most comfort. In doing this we will reduce the chance of further injury and make for a more relaxed patient. Usually this is best done using a swath either with or...

Selective clearing of c-spine is should be based on a case by case basis considering the moi and patient complaints. Always listen to your patient I am speaking from personal experience. Early last month I was involved in a mvc in a southwestern state, this was a head on in which I was driving a...

Yeah I know but the way his vest hung and crossed in front of him it made a great noose. I am not saying vests dont have a place I just dont think people should wear them while crawling around in unstable situations, In our area F.D. usually does a great job of keeping traffic off of us so imho...

We mostly use LSB Headblocks and Spider straps. But as always you have to treat the patient or situation so it is nice to have other options and know how to use them. Dont get so hung up on one method that you dont know how to use other things that are at your disposal.

We are currently required to wear vests on mvcs. How ever I have to question thier use after one of our members slipped while working a wreck snagging his vest on a part of the truck We found him hanging by his vest with his feet off the ground. He was released from the hospital after two days...

If there is a fire in the back of the ambulance I am probably going to yell, but it most likely wont sound anything like code red.

First a couple of questions, is she qualified to do the job? Does she do her share? If the answer to these is yes then you are working with a partner, all you have to do is be yourself and do your share. All of the women I have worked witj want to be accepted at their cert. level not as a woman...

Careful there LP the last time I said that we ran a call for a MVC. Turned out to be a 16 year old hood surfing on a car with no driver in it fell off and the car went completly over him. Makes you wonder how the kids of today will survive long enough to grow up.

Or if you just need to get a radio set up with your area frequencies find a reputable service company to do it. You will spend a lot less money

Always carry a window punch if you are going to work wrecks. They are cheap and easy to carry. I keep them in the pockets of everything I might have on when on scene of a MVC.

Keep a small printing press in the basement.

If you want to carry a set in your car as decoration that is probably fine. But if you are talking about to use on an ambulance, I have a question. Are you a leo? If not and you try to use them to restrain a patient you will probably wind up wearing a set that has been professionally applied. In...

Signing in on EMT LIFE.COM seems to be the trigger for me lately.

The best advice I can give is to get a good map of the area and study it and on days off get out and drive around noting street signs and land marks. Hope this helps

Or you could just fire up the K-12 saw. They will probably find a way to get the ring by their self before you get close to them.

Well he was in cardiac arrest and I'm sure some of him was hanging in the shed. Talk about being serious about doing youself in.

Basic course on line Pretty much my feelings on this. The basic course in it's original form is not enough, now thanks to technology we will have folks running around actually doing their clinicals out in the field with the feeling of I have my certification I know what I am doing without the...

Yes it is tough when you know the person. In the area I work we tend to know a good deal of the people we respond to so through the years I have had to deal with several people I know. The best way for me to cope with this has been to understand thataregardless of whether I am there or not the...