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I got questioned on this very thing a week or so ago. It was a big community event. We were all hanging out at the station for our annual BBQ when someone stopped in. They had a decent sized lac to their thumb that was probably going to need stiches. They wanted to know if they should go in to...

Classic story relating to this was a suicide by hanging. The two responders, fresh from a class on evidence and legal issues focused on it being a crime scene and didn't cut the patient down. Turns out he still had a pulse. Biggest problem I've seen is when the two agencies, with very...

I was once again reminded never to assume that because someone has their EMT cert that they have retained anything at all from their class pertinent to the call in progress.

I have to spec out our replacement ambulance for purchase in late 2010. So I want to hear what you love and hate about your rigs. What would you do differently? What did you wish it had? What do you wish they never bothered to put in there? Brands would be helpful, pics would be awesome. If...

This will totally depend on who you are giving the report to. We have one ER doc who asks for the report by saying "Tell me a story!" and another who only wants DOB, Gender and CC. We have one ERT who makes it a point to ask for one detail you haven't given. For a short time, I tried to...

Those people enable the rest of us to get deals on EBay.

I undestand that layperson CPR is not rocket science and monkeys can probably learn the skill. But, the value of a seasoned instructor is in the ability to instill the confidence in the student to trust themselves to do it when the need arises. Sort of like the difference between calling the...

I have two ring tones.. the general tone is the Triumphal March from Aida, and the other one is for when my husband calls.. it plays Stevie Wonder's "I just called to say I love you" Yeah.. I know.. sappy.. but what can I say.. almost 30 years together and he still makes my heart flutter...

You can buy one of those? Really? Where.. can you post a link.. because I'd like to buy a dozen of them and give them out to those in need of a sense of humor for Christmas.

It's been an adventure! Husband came back from a fishing trip and got really sick. High fever, headaches, muscle aches, totally incapcitated for several weeks. Turned out to be Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever. He's over it and planning his next trip to the same location to do more fishing. Since then...

Sometimes smelling an alcohol wipe will ease the nausea, at least one of our members swears by it. I am blessed to be able to read while seated in a backwards facing seat in a diesel bus without car sickness. I have a friend who due to a diving accident some years ago suffers from it terribly...

I understand that the pay is often better in a fire based service, my husband works for one. I just puzzle over people who get a cert expecting to be paid for a skill with absolutely no idea of how the local job market is set up. Just because they prefer an EMS only system doesn't make it so...

But those standards are based on research done by the AHA. Any area is going to have one organization that does a better job of teaching skills based on the criteria they impose on the teaching. I believe its regional. ARC used to be the best for first aid around here, but have recently gone...

Haven't been here for a while. Life finally settled out so I have time to start popping in here and there again. Long story short, husband got sick, I quit my job, husband got better, I found a new job, life blah blah blah... anyway. I missed ya'all! Did you miss me????:P

On line training is no way to begin. There is no connection between the hands on and the educational component. Much of the practical time will be spent with you trying to reconcile what you learned online with what the instructor is trying to teach you. There will be differences and they can be...

This is totally up to the agency. There are those who differentiate between their EMS service and their fire response teams. But, most agencies want to be able to utilize their personnel as thoroughly as possible. My question would be, why would you want to be a part of a fire department if you...

ARC classes in my area are generally taught by people who have never used the material they are teaching on a live person. Probaby partially why AHA is used more commonly to certify those who will actually need to use the skills.

I remember this on the news so my perspective is a bit more than what is told in the link. The SAR unit, like many of us, require a tone out from the Law Enforcement agency we operate under. In this particular case, the RCMP did more than 'drop the ball a little bit'. They ignored repeated...

My class used the arm, and I got really good on it... but it did nothing to prepare me for an actual human being. You can't see the little marks on the pt. that show where the veins are like you can on those fake arms. You have to just do them on humans over and over and over and over and...

This is my first day here for about a week and I'm probably going to be offline for a bit. My husband came home from a weeklong fishing trip and has been sick ever since. No.. it's not Swine flu, no gastric or respiratory issues. He's currently being tested for West Nile, Rocky Mtn Spotted...