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Thanks to everyone who came up and helped out. The Liberty crews that normally work the area have been running calls non-stop, on a 72s and 96s, while their own families evacuate. I don't work there anymore, but I've still got ties to the community. 120 structures burned, 2 fatalities...

But even if it's normal sinus rhythm with stable vitals, you verbalized Vitals O2 Monitor IV Transport. Forgetting transport failed a couple guys in my class the first time around.

Sure. Maybe. Maybe not. No one can tell you without knowing the specific agency/company, and even then it will be difficult to give a specific answer. Try calling agency/company you tested with? I'd imagine they could provide a better answer...

Conscious and alert but non verbal out of the prison, disconjugate gaze and non reactive pupils seizing intermittently for the 30 minute transport, been that way for two hours before the prison decided to call.

In regards to the pay, you're mostly right. As an EMT I was taking home between $900-1050 on average every two weeks. Medics start at $60k/year.

Don't take a job titled EMT if you are not properly certified.

Ran on one of our frequent fliers today, always calls for ******** and gets discharged after a few hours. Today she called for the usual chest pain, but was altered, in a rapid a-fib 180-200bpm, pressure in the 60s. Cardioverted 4 times and she finally converted at 200J to a sinus rhythm in the...

I made a pretty detailed thread about Liberty if you search for it. Any specific questions not already answered I'd be happy to address.

ER is hit and miss with EM trained physicians. Sometimes it's a family practice physician, sometimes it's a doc with over a decade of level 1 trauma center experience. This night it happened to be the former.

You have a mid 30s male with multiple gsw's to the chest. Pulseless and apneic, showing a wide complex PEA at a rate of 30 on the monitor, fixed pupils. Call time was 15 minutes ago but bystanders can't advise any details on pt condition prior to arrival. Who out there would work it, who would...

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So I started at this new service and everyone was telling me how much violent crime there is and how they get run into the ground. After a couple weeks I wasn't buying it, just a little busier than what I was used to. Then I do my first cric and 2 decompressions within a couple days of each...

One ticket with an otherwise clean driving record is nothing. I don't know of any employer who would disqualify you for that.

If you're tired of carrying bags and pushing gurneys, search for some threads on kern county ems. As an EMT I placed a traction splint, placed plenty of OPAs, bagged more times than I can count, dropped a king tube, suctioned more nastiness than I wanted to, all as an EMT on an ALS ambulance.

Chief complaint of "I feel cold", and upon further assessment her face looked like it was gonna fall of the left side of her head, and her left arm and leg was completely flaccid. But she just wanted a blanket...

All we have available is needle cric with a 10g

Gsw to the head, chest, abdomen, flank, and arm. Agonal with pulses on scene. Clenched down and a mouth full of blood and brain matter. Ended up cric'ing him, arrested shortly after putting him in the ER bed.

A rash for the past 4 days. Said it wasn't uncomfortable, but she didn't like the way it looks and wanted the doctor to make it go away.

But, then there's this from another thread you contributed to. I hate to be a **** just to be a ****, but I don't see anything wrong with the OPs question. For the OP, yes, as others have said, read and memorize the skills check off sheets and know them by heart.

@akflightmedic, you brought up a valid point and I don't have a good answer. Might have something to do with the company being the source of one of the largest theft of narcs by a former medic in CA, might just be policy that EMTs don't handle narc keys. But I don't know for sure.