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A follow up for anyone who cares... Cause of death was ruled suicide by intentional overdose of multiple perscription and non perscription drugs.

anyone else confused?

I have a EMS jump bag I bought used on ebay made by Pacific Emergency Products. It is of similar quality to a Ferno bag but a bit less pricey. I'd invest in a decent bag with a waterproof/water resistent bottom section so your gear doesn't get wet/dammaged on a scene. In it I stock: Gloves...

I think they are testing the concept, not the skill of actually being able to accurately determine minute ventillation

Option C --> Support resps with BVM if hemodynamically stable and let the ER deal with the narcan. I know that option C is not right...but would be nice. Our protocols here in Maine guide us to give the minimal amount of Narcan for effect execpt in case of an arrest with suspician of narcotics.

Please for the love of god tell me that is a photoshopped picture

Points taken...but not necessarily agreed with

I will agree with you on that one 100%. I know I am a "new kid" around here on the site. I am pretty new to EMS after a 10 year nursing carreer. Every day that I work in EMS I learn something new, and that is after 10 years as a critical care nurse. I can only imagine how I would feel after...

Awesome support of another EMS provider asking a question...

I'm going to echo what others have said. Minutes wouldn't have mattered here. It is up to your dispatch to have you respond in an appropriate manner to each call. Having dated a dispatcher at a major dispatch center and heard some stories...it is a job I would never want. I'm fortunate/cursed...

Maybe I wasn't clear earlier, but the patient refused transport...I didn't refuse to transport her. I can not take a patient against his/her will. That would be kidnapping.

Would you rather they got shot? Or beaten with a baton/asp and maybe suffer a head injury? Short version of my opinion on tazers is that in order to get tazed you must be doing something that deserves it. And if you are doing something that deserves getting tazed then the next step from the...

Sure did, fortunately I have the habbit of "over doccumenting"...at least that's what my coworkers call it.

Just venting...sharing. Did a call 2 days ago for a early 20's female having a seizure. Grandmother reports she was "thumping" against the wall. On our arrival she is awake, sleepy but appropriate. Known seizure disorder on Dilantin. She is acting ok but annoyed that we are in her bedroom at...

I've successfully paced PEA Just last week went to a fall down stairs. Found 80 something year old male with major head lac laying on basement floor. Wife heard him fall so he was down about 5-6 minutes before fire arrival. About 750cc blood loss. CPR in progress by fire (paramedic level). I...

don't think of coronary blood supply as a top/down concept... (I know that is the way textbooks display it)

My point is that the RBBB could be showing as ST elevation...depends on what you define as the J point vs the "bunny ears" of each ventricle depolarizing. Just another thought... My gut tells me big anterior wall MI with inferior reciprocal changes

anyone else thinking right bundle branch block?

That is such a negative policy. When it comes to safety there should be no exceptions. The service I work for has bedrooms for each of the 24 hour trucks and plenty of couches for the daytime only trucks. If not in the lounge you can go to your bedroom and do whatever when not on a call. It...

A local transfer service uses a bunch of the sprinters. Crews have nothing but good things to say about them.