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You use the minimum amount of force necessary to escape the situation. BLSBoy I like that response. Minimum amount of force and escape the key points. If the patient comes out with a weapon after I get to them then whatever gear I brought in and layed in the floor will just stay there until...

With that being said two problems I see from wearing patches that you are not yet authorized to wear are. First is the fact that you or your service could have problems if a bystander makes a complaint that they saw a person wearing a EMT-P patch at a scene and all they were doing was to...

Hey as long as you are still available to take care of any human patients why not at least try. Just think of the great P.R.

Somebody make a note of this. Sasha and Medic417 have agreed on something. But that is the only way to survive medic school and work is to use every spare moment you have to study.

I can see the point that the studies are showing given the fact that the majority of injury is done during the accident. It is even probable that a patients neck muscles are strong enough to provide enough stability to prevent further injury during transport. However in my case I had more of a...

I would have collared this patient if for nothing else just as a reminder for them to keep their head still. I know this is atypical but when I broke my neck C3 and C4 with C4 being completly shattered I had no pain or point tenderness or neurological defecits just the feeling that something was...

Sounds pretty good. Keep us up to date on how it works.

No where near perfect any other way so might as well blow this.

I'm on a posting roll today. Might as well use this to get number 100 in.

And the humor is where? Not funny to have a truck go down while on an emergency call.

Nothing wrong with going back and taking a look to make sure. Go into your local ER you will find all sorts of guides there. They are there for doctors and nurses to use when they want to make sure that their thoughts are right. So,how can it be bad for a medic to carry a field guide?

As I have stated before the nervousness we feel is just the bodies way of telling us we are dealing with something we are not familiar with. And when we realize we are doing something that could have a bad effect on someones life. The best thing we can do is to learn to channel the nerves into a...

This is not a brag but if you look at the way we have to do things in the field it is no wonder hospital staff changes IVs and ET tubes. Out of need we do not always have the best of environments to work in. That is a good reason to do things in a more controlled manner to better serve the...

The best answer I have seen so far.

Congratulations. I am on light duty. Dispatch is considered light duty. I don't mind it too much. But I miss field work.

About the only thing I wont cut is a motorcycle club jacket. Had to treat a member of a well known motorcycle club once for a possible d/l shoulder. We were able to get his jacket off. I had already told one of his buddies that if we had to cut it that I would give him my shears.

The only way I can think of to resolve the "BS" calls is if you have the right to refuse to send out an ambulance. I work part time as an EMD I am not going to put my certification on the line by telling someone they do not need an ambulance. In a dispatch setting where you use EMD protocols any...

Sasha just remember everybody can go back and look at a call and find things they would have done differently. Hind sight is 20/20 sounds like you did great. We have to understand that some patients are going to die regardless of what we do we just don't get to make that decision so we have to...

A great point about treating the patient not the numbers. We all know that all of our toys are man made machines that can and will at some time fail. Hence the need to use your skills of evaluation.

Just gotta throw this out. I was working last night in the 911 center at around midnight the 911 line rings. Instead of being the tone out the world call I was expecting the caller was a 23 year old guy traveling home from college who had ran out of gas. I was transferring him to the highway...