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Or we could just cut this one in a million son of a gun and go on with life. That’s what my gut is telling me at least. I think it would depend a lot on the provider and we have a long way to go to reach the kind of proficiency you’re advocating here. Anyway, I know this was as much...

I'm big on utilizing all the responders on scene. I usually have an emt partner and four firefighters/emts. I make sure that everyone has a job and that I'm always thinking four steps ahead of everyone else. This is easy to do if you have planned in advance. This is important, not just to...

Or better yet, if you can, just throw them on the stretcher before you start. This works especially well when treating patients in nursing homes or apartment buildings. This also helps if you need to drop a tube. If you can't see the cords, you can drag them back until their head in hanging...

I think continuous capnography monitoring should become the gold standard. My agency has been using it for years and haven't brought in a misplaced tube in a long time.

Be careful, policy revisers are annoying and rarely do more good than harm.

I totally disagree. There is a whole plethora of legitimate reasons to take ride-alongs. I do it all the time.

No, I can't believe it! Next they'll be telling me ridryder is a man.

Yea, they need a good technical advisor. I think they're mistaking "IFTs" for RRTs. In reality, they're more right than wrong. Most "inter facility" (nursing home transfers for example) transports that are done throughout the country don't even remotely resemble an emergency. Yet, most...

who is miss ventmedic? is our ventmedic a woman or is there another ventmedic?

I never cared about custom plates, but in your case, the deciding factor would be whether or not ems plates could keep the meter maids and cops off your back. If yes, then they would be worth their weight in gold. Correction, in NYC, they would be worth a lot more!

Give me some money, and I'll take the test for you.

Have you guys been following the NJ Trooper Higbee case where he ran a stop sign without stopping at 65 mph, without lights or siren, and killed two young girls? He was later charged and found to be not guilty of anything. Defense arguments were that he followed NJ police operating...

Buck Turgidson

Also, what’s with the bolding of certain words? Bold a paragraph or something for effect like I did above, but bolding your favorite words is just annoying. I can read and comprehend just fine on my own. I find this trend annoying because it draws my attention away and causes my eyes to dart...

Everybody is a lawyer nowadays. I know, I know, you all have learned this from your years of being beaten down by idiotic rules and regulations, and then being burned at the stake for any deviation. I know, its not your fault, it’s the world we live in, yada-yada. Forced to conform, and how...

Common sense would come in handy here. He would not have to tell the pt he was a doctor. What could he do without a hospital anyway? Just because a surgeon might ride along on an ambulance doesn’t mean he is expected to perform surgery in the field should the need arise. I would recommend he...

I personally have known three doctors who came back to volunteer in ems. They eventually got it out of their system and moved on. I think his expertise could be extremely valuable to himself and especially other ems providers in need of perspective and inspiration. If a doctor reached out to...

I think it is neat you still have an interest in ems. I'm not sure about texas, but in my state you'd have to take the emt class or challenge the test and become certified before you could function as an ems provider. Around here, if a medical professional such as yourself does this, they are...

And thank goodness most are like DT4EMS and don’t let the power corrupt them. With all these ems nuts we got running around with all their ems gizmos hanging off, can you imagine what they would do with a little power? I don't even want to think about it.

A very small percentage goes on to fly in helicopters. I don’t see the big deal myself; basic physics makes the thing go up. It’s just a way to get to and from a location. Obviously, most don’t agree with me because there is great competition to ride in those dangerous little things. What...