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Yup can’t have COVID until election season lol

Bro, you quite frankly don’t know of what you speak. Bashing a state’s EMS system only makes sense if you have knowledge of or actually practice in actual EMS. You do not appear to have that knowledge or experience and do not appear to be a credible source.

How do they get away without EtCO2?

We got our fire department a cake with a whale and an address when our local bariatric frequent flyer EMS abuser died of poor decisions and too many people trying to help her scream and poop on things. It was chocolate and delicious.

You should get the Army assault M5 bag you can from Galls or LAGear and fill it with identical, standardized first-aid kits and gauze rolls from Amazon. Then buy two Chinese handheld radios and program them to your county emergency dispatch and your school. Then gut a riggers belt and a radio...

Can that paranedic cure cancer?

Depends why they’re hypovolemic. Saline could help, or actively make things worse, or kill them, depending on how much and what.

Yep, I am. Spring has a lot of good local choices. The obvious ESD48 in Katy, ESD11 in Spring and MCHD/HCEC all offer reasonable staffing and 24s, ESD11 has a lot of 12s as well and is probably the second-safest of the bunch (behind ESD48, where adequate resources and a tiny-but-packed service...

A little more seriously now: The animal you describe is not present in American EMS. It will not be found in our Pokédex. Our workplace protections and labor laws are vague at best for our field, and on a state/federal level, length of shift is wholly undefined and unregulated. Individual...

Sleep is for the weak, brother. We’re expected to run whenever the calls come. Sometimes there’s good days and you get to sleep a bit. Sometimes you raw-dog life with your face. It’s all variable.

Does RSI even matter when it’s 104, very humid (heat index 114) and your rent is a legitimate 52% of your monthly take-home on a 24/48 variation?

**California jumps in**

Kinda sounds like stupidity on the crew’s part.

As I foresaw when the Army and DoD started this “everyone important should be a critical care flight paramedic” monster off 10+ years ago, without ensuring any sort of relevant prehospital experience or adjusting for contextual factors… It’s frustrating because these look to be the product of...

I second this- easily the most painless certification and recertification process I have been through. Now I just need to find a job in New England and move out of Texas lol.

So far yes.

Good news- Dad is discharged and flying home tomorrow evening. Diagnosis was acute tubular necrosis resulting in AKI and ARF, likely secondary to dehydration and a UTI. Diabetes didn’t help.

Bro I was downstairs from all that and wondering what was going on. Sounded like a great party though! I fly home this afternoon. Dad is doing better, potassium has dropped back to normal levels but creatinine is still far too high. Urine production is increasing slowly, GFRs still suck, bun is...

So at Grandpa’s funeral in Hawaii today, Dad fell out. Turns out he’s in renal failure.

That’s an interesting segue: is the EMS system an appropriate method for dealing with teenage problems? Not so much the legitimate medical issues of a person, but why do we need to send a dedicated emergency vehicle and crew to transport Little Susie Sadness to a “pediatric” psych center when a...