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I added an infectious line to my review of systems for the standard COVID questions. I also have a line at the end to the effect that no signature was obtained due to infection control precautions. That’s about it. Oh- we also have a tab in the crew field of ESO for PPE now, too.

Just one of many reasons I work nights!

On calls it‘s on my neck. In between calls it lives on the dash.

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Seconded. It’s an absolutely fantastic and highly relevant book.

Denver specifically. Colorado has an IV-certification for EMTs that in addition to IVs, allows fentanyl, D10/D50, and Zofran.

That's correct. We're 95%+ double medic ambulances.

Our EMTs can give 100 mcg of IV fentanyl, so unless someone's in a lot of pain or there's something weird going on there's no reason to make it ALS.

There's really not a separate fireline EMT cert. If you have your FFT2 and EMT, you can get EMTF on your red card. I regularly go out as an EMPF, but it's been a long time since wildland was my full-time job. Bearing that in mind, the crew EMT role is secondary to the firefighting role...

We used those packs as special event kits at Pridemark. They're nice!

Are you guys actually able to get droperidol? We haven't seen it for years.

I have 2 bags- one lives at work and has my rain coat, hi-viz vest, ear protection, a pair of sunglasses, and some random spare batteries and other stuff. That one is a 5.11 Rush 6 The other one goes back and forth to work and home on my bike with me and has my iPad, Kindle, safety glasses...

According to command staff, our cardiac arrest calls are more than double the same time frame last year. I think it's a little COVID and a little people avoiding care. It's certainly gotten easier to convince people with minor complaints to follow-up with their PCP for their foot pain for 3 weeks.

@captaindepth I believe you and I work different shifts... anecdotally my shifts have been pretty consistent volume wise and I still can’t get off on time. I don’t work during peak bar time and I don’t work rush hour and I still can’t get off on time ever.

FEMA Ambulance Strike Team Ambulance Strike Team Leader Quals

We use Aladtec and it works well. My only real complaint is that it takes too long to see your partner for a particular shift. Shift trade and PTO requests are easy to make. I don't work on the back end, but the people I know who do seem to like it. We previously used Netscheduler, which was...

We (Denver Health) will do transfers from a Denver Health clinic/urgent care to the ED at Denver Health. We’ll also do emergent ED to ED transfers- typically a level 1 trauma going back to Denver Health. We only do it if we‘re going to the ED. Most of the mountain and plains services that are...

I worked them at Rural/Metro, where we had to run transfers at night and get up and post at night. So I basically only had 3 days off every cycle because the rest was recovering from running 16-18 calls plus posting every shift. Never once got more than 4 hours of sleep on shift. My favorite...

Modified Kelly Schedule. The worst of all possible worlds.

Our base schedule is 4 10-hour shifts. Day shifts start between 0500 and 1100. Night shifts start between 1400 and 2100. We pick every 4 months, based on seniority. The picks are all consistent start times. We have 2 stations that do 12-hour shifts, so I work 2 10s and 2 12s every week.