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  1. Martyn

    Funny Things We Say To Make Our Patients Feel Better

    With a 68 yo female patient other day, got to the bit about past pertinent Hx...she reeled off the usual long list. When she finished I shouted out to my partner 'Hey Andrew, this patient is f****d, slow down while I open the doors and push her out' The look on my partners face was classic and...
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    Narrative saved the day

    Trepanning
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    please help me with my personal kit

    :rolleyes:
  4. Martyn

    What's the dumbest thing you've said to a patient?

    I have to keep reminding my first responder to stop saying to my hospice patients 'Get better soon' as we leave their room!!!
  5. Martyn

    Dumbest thing heard on the radio

    We used to call it the 'Fatty Wagon' at Americare
  6. Martyn

    Report: FIRE doing EMS should come to an end.

    Just as an aside, I got called 911 non emergency response for a GLF, outside the residence was (if I remember correctly) a ladder truck, a pumper, the battalion chiefs vehicle a county ambulance and us (I was working with Americare at the time), I think there was one or two sheriff deputies...
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    Report: FIRE doing EMS should come to an end.

    Totally agree with above having attended more than a few MVA's, however... (Purely hypothetical of course...)...'911, whats your emergency', 'My husband is having a heart attack'....Dispatch then sends engine 220 (a ladder truck), a few minutes after that they then send Medic 72. Meanwhile on...
  8. Martyn

    Emergency Lights & Sirens on POV?

    Found the ideal 'siren' http://www.autozone.com/safety-and-security/horn/wolo-electronic-musical-horn-and-piano-keyboard/817321_0_0/ ...or maybe this one... http://www.autozone.com/safety-and-security/horn/wolo-3-trumpet-calvary-charge-musical-horn/349893_0_0/ This one has animal sounds on...
  9. Martyn

    Is PASG for Basic Shock Treament used anymore?

    Just as an aside I started with a BLS IFT company a couple of weeks ago, MAST is still on the PCS (paper one) although we don't carry it
  10. Martyn

    Personal Jump Bag

    In Florida it is, one of the 5 drugs that EMT's can administer
  11. Martyn

    Is PASG for Basic Shock Treament used anymore?

    They may well have done, I remember them on the trucks though (albeit a while ago admittedly).
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