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1-March, actually, I'll start my Associates Degree: Paramedicine classes. I've some college under my belt, but it's a decade old. I'm thinking I'll purchase an A&P textbook and workbook and tyr to work through as much as I can. Any other suggestions?

Houses with severe peanut allergies usually don't stock peanut butter. None the less, it only takes a second t oask.

Our instructor said he avoids using quotes in narratives and the book somewhat supported his position. I mainly use them when I'm taking a direct quote from a patient or bystander, usually describing the s/s. For example "Man this hurts like a MF" wouldn't be quoted, I'd get a pain scale...

This "ever" stuff is a bit much. W-EMT teaches, and Wilderness protocols allow for, the removal of objects impaled through extremities, if they aren't near a major vessel.

Depends state to state. If you come upon a scene where a guy is OD'ed, you can take the drugs to the hospital with you although I have no idea why they do that, it's not like th M.D. Is gonna race down and mass spectrometer the sample. If you can articulate the reasons to a reasonable...

Right trouser cargo pocket. YMMV. Around the neck once I get on scene and I'm doing stuff.

If a patient can't protect their own airway, you can't administer oral glucose. If you're talking about some D50 in an IV, it's above my level of training and I have no clue :)

Great job stopping to help out! A few questions: Where did you obtain the backboard? What change in your treatment would have been possible had you had your b/p cuff and steth?

Was the intox pt a young college age man? Athletic? What shape was the EMT? Anyone can be violent, any situation can be dangerous. Thinking that you've made the world a safer place by taking away a three inch piece of steel is a false notion. Well, OF COURSE you'd do that! My god...

Some do, some don't. The smashing victory for the Constitution yesterday, handed down by SCOTUS, will be changing a lot of that. I can carry in schools and my state only prohibits me carrying in jails, but the law specifically stipulates that the jail is responsible for providing me with a...

Not quite. It's legal because you have the unalienable right to carry said device. Our rights are natural and exist regardless of the current "law". It's prohibited, by law, to carry specific items onto commercial airlines. Could you cite the law that prohibits the carrying of specific...

A lock blade style knife?!? Did you call Homeland Security? Terror Code: Hot Red? Did he detonate the device? Seriously guy, you need to chill the hell out. If I'm not at work, I'm carrying a weapon. If you disarm me against my will, you've committed theft. Theft of a...

1) Join the volley, have them pay for class, then short change them by not giving your one hundred percent when you grudgingly come in for shifts and run calls. This is, essentially, theft. Secondary to that, everyone at that station will know what you did and they'll make sure their friends...

I just submitted my application for the NREMT-b! I've recently passed my PA EMT so, if I've been informed correctly, I'll only need to take the written test. For the PA EMT I scored a 93 on the written, still that was a month ago. Lots of studying inbound. Any idea how long it usually...

Air? When a trauma center is 30m away? Other than that, I agree with everything you've said. If this guy has a decent BP, (>80mmHg) he's getting a fast ride. If he's lower than that, I'd try to get a bird to meet us somewhere nice and safe.

That's seriously how you think it would happen? I bet those states with concealed carry laws are just frothing blood at the borders, right? I bet the National Parks are turning into gang-war zones now that us untrustworthy peons have accidentally gotten the magistrate to give us permission to...

Who cares? I know it's almost blasphemy to suggest in todays PowerPoint society that some things might be more important than uniform color, newness of pager, flashiness and frequently of lights, and god help us if we don't have a new patch... but perhaps they could think of a method to keep...

:) Just a joke.

Guns FTW.

I'll address some of the things I've read here and attempt to clarify some things I've said; First off, I never said and advocate against placing yourself in danger. Any opinions I offer, advice I give or suggestions I toss out all are predicated by the understanding that "THE SCENE IS...