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I was working in the Caribbean when I brought a young lady from a rear-end collision into the ED and told the triage nurse that she was ''hit from behind" which in that language is synonymous to saying "she was taken from behind". It was kind of embarrasing as the nurse, who is known for her...

Anyone who can say something about how the demand for ACP's will develop in the years to come in BC?

travel, and I am also a big fan of civil aviation.

London is way to expensive, not to say just plain unaffordable, to live on a paramedic salary. and if you choose to commuter everyday...any type of transport is also very expensive and time consuming. Hence, many paramedics move out to other cities and regions where they can actually enjoy life.

a 48yo with a panic attack. No history, no specific complaints besides the classic hyperventilation symptoms and sats of 100%. However the EKG reveals a large STEMI (inferior, posterior, anterior and lateral) with hypotension. We stabilized him with fluids and loaded him with all the pre-PCI...

thanks for your reply cprtd. I've been looking at the official websites for some time, but it would help tremendously if any european medic can share their experience with the process. What is the expectation for ACP-jobs for the coming years, as I am hoping to have everything ready to emigrate...

I did ride alongs with ambulances of the FD of Medellin in Colombia and with the Red Cross in Santo Domingo. Very shocking to see the circumstances in which these medics work.

For example: we are a nurse-based system, meaning that an RN with critical care or ED-experience gets trained in one year to become an ambulance nurse. We provide protocolized ALS, similar to the skill set that I saw on the website of the BC licensing body for paramedics. I am wondering what...

How is the situation now? I am a paramedic in one of the large cities in the Netherlands and I've been planning to move to Vancouver for some time now. At this time I would like to start making my first moves. However I do have so many questions left, to which I cannot find closing answers on...

We are talking about one of the Dutch-Antillian islands, were we do believe that the Dutch nurse-based system for pre-hospital care is among the best in the world, to be preffered above the American paramedic-model. However I don't think we can afford the Dutch system. And untill we can afford...

In my country a choice has to be made whether to continue with a nurse-based ambulanceservice or to start with a EMT/paramedic-based EMS-system. Can anyone give me good arguments why EMT/paramedics would be better than nurses (with ED or ICU-background)?

Does anyone have experience with hospital-based EMS? What are the pro's and contra's of having your whole EMS-system being part of a hospital?

Can anyone tell me which conference is bigger...the texas ems conference or EMS expo? Any other large conferences at the end of this year?