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This, the story that I go to is assisting in delivering a baby. I generally try and brush the question off but if I have to answer or tell a story I try and come up with a positive experience on a call or just a simple community assistance or welfare check that made a difference for someone.

If your serious about a career with EMS then physical fitness standards are a must. Do not...do not approach this job and say that you can stay overweight or out of shape. If you want any sort of meaningful career and not just a job then being in good physical shape is a must. Think about...

We are supposed to be getting ketamine as an alternative to etomidate. We haven't had vec since last calendar year....don't carry roc...repeated sux pushes happen ...

our resupply is out of Veniguards, Saline, Ringers, Vec, and Etomidate, Also on backorder is glucagon.... Stoopid

The United States consumes 80 percent of the worlds prescription opioids and over 95% percent of the worlds Vicodin. Yet somehow we don't rank near the top in pain management. Are you telling me that people in the US just have that much more pain then people in other countries? I believe...

This guy is right :D As far as this goes you will do little to nothing for this patient aside from transport, and whether you say alert and oriented x1 or x4 if they lost consciousness due to hitting their head there is about a 99.95% chance (at hospitals in my area at least) that they are...

That's the problem. Where's the line. Weed 24 hours before work okay but 12 hours before not? what about 16... Until they have a way to test the levels of THC (or other worthwhile compound) in your system similar to a BAC there is simply no way to pick an enforceable arbitrary cutoff like...

high 70's if I recall correctly, nothing ever was real crazy...Its just weird though, perfect wave form on the SPO2, good radial pulses, warm hands...same thing over and over

Yeah, we have picked this lady up multiple times and she is just a ticking time bomb. The irony (if you can call it that) is that she never calls for a respiratory complaint. It's always weakness, falls, stroke symptoms, abd pain, back pain...etc...etc..etc.. Everytime out there have had...

There are several government run public service agencies down here that require you to sign a no tobacco form when you get hired. It doesn't mean no tobacco on the job, it means you have not used in the previous 6 months period and will not as long as you are employed by them. This includes all...

I am fairly sure that the majority of people do not use them responsibly in my area. I can also assure you that regardless of the number of people that use them responsibly, the United States by far has the worst problem of narcotic abuse in the world. I see the negative results of people...

I'm not sure where your from but I am a 24 year old male here in the south. I could get off shift in 30 minutes and have a script written, filled, and picked up for 90 norcos by 10am. I have no medical history indicative of needing pain meds (really no medical history at all). If I stated I was...

Not to drive off topic here with a sly remark but....because I can go to any number of doctors within 30 miles of here, complain about chronic back pain and anxiety, and get a script for 120 norcos and some xanax...bet I could pick them up with in 3 hours... I completely understand...

Basically this One of the stations at the service I work at averages 3 calls a shift. You can go to bed whenever you like, we dont post, and its easy to work a 48 or 72. You have a full kitchen, showers, laundry facility....if you are "slammed" you might run 6 calls in a 24 hour period...

Seems like a poorly written article in the first place. If it took half an hour to dispatch and ambulance and the man waited 30 minutes for the ambulance then it seems like a pretty stellar response time after dispatch... the numbers just don't add up. Also, the article now states he waited...

I would like to apologize for my use of the EKG image with permission or attributing the work to the author. The rest of the scenario information was mine from a call ran very recently. I was looking for a EKG that represented what I saw and just grabbed the first one that looked good. I again...

If this is a short period of job dissatisfaction I agree. If this is something you feel sometimes or after certain calls then I agree. If you hate your job all the time, then quit trying to make it work. How many medics and EMT's do you know that have hated what they do for years now, but won't...

Quite frankly, if you have any other job options at all, and I mean at ALL, Quit. Not in 6 months, not in 3 months, just quit, state your needing to take some time off to adjust your career path, put your 2 weeks in, and get the hell out. If New Zealand is anything at all like the US then you...

This was an actual patient I had on Sunday. I transported to the community hospital she was discharged from, our transport time was around 15 minutes and I did not drill her en route. Her BP's hung out around 90/50 with no trouble breathing (beyond what was normal for her) on 4L on a nasal...

This ECG was not the actual ECG, just basically exactly like it, I had trouble getting a quality scan so I just searched for something that would get the gist across.