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HA, our little orange(emergency) button makes for a nice scan on/off button on our 800 radios because someone got the brilliant idea to disable the emergency button and of course you can always key up and say you have an emergency which isn't always possible and then of course dispatch is going...

I'm going to assume this isn't a troll. But does your Dept allow you to have emergency lights on your POV?

Now that is being prepared. Never know when your gonna need it and don't forget the blinker fluid, god help you if the sup. catches you without that.

Makes you wonder... what kind of special (lots of explicits) doesn't believe that we can tell the difference between someone's house being on fire or not. Well maybe I don't believe you that we have a call next time.

Well that couldn't possibly be the problem. Better get the rookie to check it out with the forceps and make sure he brings the size 7 fallopian tube.

Our old type II don't have cup holders, well I don't count the factory one in the door. The Mercedes sprinters we have now have cup holders galore. Theirs a total of at least 6 cup holders that I can think of.

Though how would a service justify that based on a unit price of $16,500 a piece? Plus the device is about as tall as a LP 15 and slightly longer so it does take up a good portion of space.

Funny thing is, we have the Lucas but we also get an army of people on cardiac arrest calls, including us(private third service) ALS ambulance, 1 BLS engine(4 people), 1 ALS rescue(2 people), so your looking at 8 medical plus a LEO or two.

Were required to use them by CQI unless they dont fit the patient.

What do you think about them? We carry them on our trucks and I personally have not noticed a huge help(other than the obvious non fatigue) and have noticed it is becoming an item that is starting to be left on the trucks where I work for cardiac arrest calls and placed on the patient when we...

Just make sure the rig has air ride seats in the front and the airbags so the back of the truck lowers when the rear doors open and I'm good. Though a lighter monitor would be nice, those LP 15s get to be cumbersome after a while(that's all we have where I work). A new Zoll monitor would be nice...

As far as I'm concerned, dispatch gives me an address and a made up reason as to why I'm going there in the first place until proven otherwise. Had entirely too many times where we get complaint "A" upon being dispatched and on the MDT and show up and it's actually complaint "M"(no where near...

We have the Lucas device, obviously just does auto CPR. If/when the battery dies(which it can be plugged in while in operation) we just do manual CPR but we don't have anything to measure depth etc at that point.

Let me refer you to this photo. https://www.facebook.com/OriginsComics/photos/pb.564556896909794.-2207520000.1392373128./671747626190720/?type=3&theater For those of you on facebook, it is from Origins - An Emergent Comedy and is a legitimate page.

I understand, but this is also an area where most people dont know basics even exist.

Get your AEMT before you move. Georgia hardly uses basics. You'll have a very hard time finding a job as a basic when the area is full of I'85 and AEMTs. Also, most medic schools wouldn't really know what to do with a basic. With having to teach you up to the AEMT then medic level, plus it...

I can give you a lot of info, pm me. Any specifics you want to know. FYI, I'll be on the truck today and just got off a 12 so the reply might be slow.

We're already at a little over 14,000 calls this year.

We joke around with our supervisors saying the same thing, "you might as well just hire a driver". Most of our medics know the issue all to well, especially our medics that were emts in the system before they became medics and they sit on scene and allow us to do everything, unless its a...

Yep, my company does the same. It sucks for the medics and the emts