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Thank you. That information is a big help. It is hard to started again when you're 48 years old and haven't written a paper in almost 30 years. :rofl:

My instructions say that Citations must be in APA style

I need your assistance. I am writing a paper on Tiered EMS systems and I need to use 5 peer-reviewed articles to write it. I am at a loss because I have no idea where to even begin. I am not looking to cheat by any means but could use some input on where I should look for these articles. How...

Well, enough of the looking for the online EMT-I/99 to EMT-P class. I found a spot that opened up in a class just 15 miles from my house that starts on August 27 at Piedmont Community College that will work for my schedule. I got the word today that I am in. I can also do my clinicals at UVA or...

Yes, you can do it. I too have a career that I'm not giving up because it is an easy 40 hours(daylight), I make great money, and the two incomes combined is phenominal, and I love it. I am also woking as an EMT-I/99 with a great agency and averaging about 36 hours per week. If you combine the...

You are correct and we are considered medics in this area and can perform surgical crichs too. This is agency based.. The paramedics that I run with treat me as an equal too. VCU has a good paramedic school too but you must do ALL of your clinicals at MCV and these places are 2 hours from my...

I can be away several times but just not every week.

I have had a Achilles tendon surgically repaired because of being a middle aged man acting like a kid playing softball. Yes, It can be repaired but will never be the same.

The King was used because the crew on scene was BLS only and that is part of our local protocol for EMT-Bs and EMT-Es. We were called to respond medic level to assist a completely different agency. It was me and a paramedic. We are in rural Virginia and paramedics and EMT-I/99s are not in...

I had great ETCO2 during the code so that is one of the reasons I decided not to remove it but the E.R doctor showed me an Xray and she definitely had vomitus in her lungs.

If you were called to assist another squad with a working code and they had inserted a King airway before your arrival, what questions would you ask yourself to determine if you would remove the King and intubate the patient? I had this scenario not long ago and I left the King in because the...

Man that felt good. We were called to assist a local county unit(about 7 miles away) for a working code, female in her 50's, and the crew on scene did not have a medic. I had been worried about this situation happening but when we got on scene things just started to happen, I knew what drugs to...

This is exactly why pay is so low.. I would say a large portion of us, including me, feel this way so why would they pay more if we are willing to do it for free.

The same reason that airline pilots are paid so little. Airline owners know that pilots LOVE to fly and are willing to sacrifice just about everything to be able to do it, so they know they will do it for little pay. EMS agencies know that medics are willing to do it for little pay because of...

That would be my question. Why not a amiodarone drip at 150 mg over 10 minutes for this patient, followed by a maintenance infusion? It is my understanding that adenosine is only used in wide-complex tachycardia for diagnostic purposes only, is this correct? With this rhythm, if electricity was...

Does anyone know if the Percom paramedic school is CoAEMSP accredited?

congratulations!!

I was in a hurry and didn't have time for a rebuttal. LOL!!

good point

I actually asked a question similar to this in EMT-I class because it sure seemed like we spent a lot of time on something that usually does not have a good outcome, when we could have spent many more hours on topics that were actually of far greater benefit, at least that is what I thought at...