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    What does your agency ride in...

    This is our main truck. We also have a Suburban and we're getting a second one of these. Since we only cover the school's campus and aren't a transporting agency (we're BLS first response), we don't have an actual ambulance.
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    Best online EMS clothing?

    Do you put your radio in the Trauma Pro, and if so, does it do a good job of holding the radio without accidentally keying it up? I'm thinking about getting one primarily as a radio holster, but some of our radios have rather sensitive push-to-talk buttons and I worry about it keying up...
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    Walking out a broken leg

    If I was in the woods camping with just me and a buddy and someone broke a leg, I'd seriously consider doing an assisted walk out after splinting it. In this case, the only reason I'd want to make that decision is that I'm weighing the risk of further injury to the leg versus the risk of calling...
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    Ultrascope

    I'm looking into getting a new stethoscope and until now had never heard of the Ultrascope. For any of you that have them, how well does the Ultrascope Maxiscope seem to work compared to a similarly priced traditional headed sthethoscope (e.g., Littmann Lightweight II S.E. or Littmann Select)?
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    Vent About Your Rig

    We discovered the other day that one of our trucks is for some inexplicable reason set up so that everything except the chargers for the portable radios runs off of the shore line if it's plugged in. Of course, we only found this out when someone tried to start the truck and the battery was...
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    Save the Medic, or Spare the Family?

    Thanks for the clarification, and, like I said, I'd probably be calling medical control ASAP as well for orders to call it.
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    Save the Medic, or Spare the Family?

    Okay, but you're a Critical Care Paramedic, while I'm still an EMT-B student, so you presumably have a lot more leeway in making that call than I do. So far, having never been in that situation, I'm just going off of what my textbooks, protocols, and instructors have told me. If my instructors...
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    Save the Medic, or Spare the Family?

    Legally, I cannot accept anything except the NY State Prehospital DNR form as a valid DNR. Nothing else, not the family's verbally expressed wishes, power of attorney, living will, etc. is sufficient. Now, at the point that they say there's a DNR but can't produce it, I'm going to start CPR...
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    Hate being called ambulance drivers!

    Unless you happen to be in a flycar...
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    Question from a quiz in my class

    I'd say that in a testing scenario, especially a multiple choice question, the best way to decide whether they want you to think of it as trauma or medical is to say to yourself, "What's the chief complaint likely to be?" In this case, the chief complaint is probably that the patient hurt his...
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