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That depends entirely on the rules of the agency that employs you. While something might be a 'legal activity' like say.. smoking or having a drink.. a workplace may have rules that are more stringent than the law. If you are a dispatcher for an agency, that agency may have rules specifically...

I'm assuming this manual serves as your SOGs for medical events. I would look up SOGs online and go over some of the outlines. Pretty much what you are going to need is an outline of who does what by what standard. You generally start an SOG with a definition of terms or a flow chart of your...

So, everyone is supposed to post your recent calls? How do we know unless we are at the same agency? Okay.. this part has me absolutely clueless. Dept what? Station's (with the apostrophe is the possessive, so you are talking about something belonging to a station but you don't tell us what...

I found that the breathing exercises in a good yoga class are very helpful for my asthma.

someone was watching the credits for Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail

We still carry paper maps, and the old fashioned compasses into the backcountry. Tree canopy can make it impossible to triangulate a signal for a GPS. We still teach the old fashioned orienteering. For when the batteries die.

My point is that those who have med issues are less desirable employees for many reasons. Their meds issues are something that will need to be addressed. Better hire the guy who didn't need the extra work. The liability of knowing that an issue exists removes the excuse of plausible denial when...

I'd rather have a competent assessment from a jerk than compassion from an incompetent. Both for me and my loved ones. Skills first, personality second.

I've found that we are doing less and less search and more rescue.. with the cell phones and GPS units, we usually can pinpoint where they are and just have to go get them.

I think the issue has become a bit polarized. There is a lot of ground between ignoring a patient and hovering over them constantly for the entire transport. One is poor patient care and the other is a personality disorder. I think most of us are somewhere in the middle. We are able to...

In our waaaaaaa-aaaaaay off the beaten track rural EMS district, we often respond directly from home. Our district is 52 Sq miles of goat tracks and unmarked driveways. When the tones go out, depending on where the call is, I'm not going to drive 5 miles east to the closest station so I can...

Ahhh so you are the reason that all hospital supplies are now kept under lock and key. I heard about you guys. Stealing is stealing. We used to be able to replace supplies in our stock if it was something like an O2 mask or IV tubing that remained on the pt in the ER. The ER would bill the...

I'm not so sure that the pt needs to be watched every second. Face it if the pt is going to develop something that serious, that fast, they are doing the Drano anyway. If its serious, its going to last more than a second and there will be obvious changes in their appearance, vitals, noises, etc...

When those eyes go up into that fixed deviated gaze.. if you weren't really watching, you'd miss that one.

Part of our training has to include all levels as you list them in your post. But part of being a good wilderness EMS provider is being able to utilize those who have little or no training. So, rather than seeing it as a failure of those who are FA trained only, the one who fails would be the...

I bet you do a lot of them for jobs outside of EMS.

To quote the illustrious and now deceased Gilda Radner... "it's always sumthin"

Shorts may be fine for postal workers, but I'm not sure I would want to expose more skin to patient ickies.

I have a jump kit that I am required to carry as a volly who sometimes responds from home. I have eliminated all the whacker crap from it because after several years of lugging around stuff I didn't use, I decided to get rid of it so I can find the stuff I actually need. I have gloves, a bp...

Just because something isn't forbidden doesn't make it a good idea.