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I guess the unusual thing about your sitaution, for those of us located in the other 49 states, is that Geogia doesn't have an EMT-B level anymore (well, they do, but they can't ride an ambulance, right?). So, you're really just starting out? Anyway, my clinicals were basically what everyone...

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, ratios, percentages... It's high school math. They aren't going to be asking you to solve differential equations.

A quick, dirty, and of questionable reliability google search indicates that there are approximately 40 cases per 100,000 population of status epilepticus in a given year. Which probably explains why despite answering numerous (n>30) seizure calls, I have yet to have one that hadn't broken...

I'm hardly an expert in Paramedics' historical scope of practice, but I believe several "surgical" techniques have been removed over the years. And, while every licensed MD can theoretically, under the scope of his license, start cutting on you, relatively few have the training and experience...

What are the odds, right? Of all the places it could have landed, it hits some poor bloke in the head. Of course, I'm equally surprised that anything was left loose in the cabin of a helicopter, and that the door was open.

I dislike putting people on backboards, and I really dislike putting people in KEDs. I hasten to add that I do so anyway, but... it always strikes me as inflicting likely unecessary suffering on the patient. I like calls where I can see a new patient presentation or something else that I...

I agree. I was just saying that the machine the OP is looking for obviously exists, because hospitals have them. But they're not suitable for EMS work for the reasons you mentioned.

Right. At the hospital, the ECG cart is just a laptop, a printer, and a gizmo that the leads plug into (I know, I'm grossly oversimplifying, probably, but hey, it's not where I work). But they still have lifepaks around for when they actually need an intervention.

Not as far as I know, because the monitor also does other things, like pacing and defibrillation, that you couldn't easily make a laptop do. What you can do is hook up your lifepak or other monitor to your laptop and download the information directly onto the PCR. I know EMSCharts mobile has...

The second situation is the most ethically clear cut. It is not up to the medical provider to make a moral judgment as to whether that person deserves to live. It is for the state to make that decision after trial and conviction, a process that isn't governed by passions. Terminally ill...

I was under the impression that DNPs were primarily for nurse practitioners. So I guess it would be "I'm Dr. Smith, and I will be your mid-level non-physician practitioner today." Admittedly, doctorates in Nursing aren't so common yet outside academia, though they're picking up now (I think...

Also remember that FDNY doesn't hire people as medics right away. You have to work for them for a while before you can get "promoted" to ALS.

Much like with paramedics, states have widely differing protocols on how they allow advanced practice nurses to function. The fact of the matter is that if you want a plenary license to practice medicine, you have to go to medical school. Law isn't that different, by the way. While the AMA...

See, if I had it to do all over again... I would not have gotten a general liberal arts degree (mine undergrad degree is in Political Science, with a minor in Philosophy). If I were going back to school now, I would choose a bachelor's degree in something that would allow me to get a job with...

That's it, your future as an anesthesiologist is over! :D

9-1-1... Please hold.

Aidey, while I personally agree with your position, I'm afraid that the law is not yet so forward thinking. Indeed, accusing someone who doesn't have a mental illness of having one is considered to be so obviously harmful that in some states it falls into the category of defamation per se...

Did I ever say that, or is this not directed at me? Federal law gives you the certain rights, and your employer is bound by that law. So, you have certain protected speech, even in connection with your private employer. Whether the comments in this case are protected, I don't care to...

Do you mean how many that live long enough to actually make it to a surgical suite?

I believe this has been posted elsewhere on this forum, but... There you go. :)