When I vollie usually get there around 10a monday ride till 7pm, check out the first due mainly the als equip and depending on my day just grab my drug bag and plop myself in the fly car and roam around, get stuff done and hang out. In NYC911 I sit in my bus 12 to 16 hours a day on a street...
EMTAL stands for EMT Alex, one of my buddies from another department.
No, Alex is not my BF, we both have our own "other halves" that drive us crazy... (but of course we love them, right Alex?) [/b]
if you say so... :P
At my vollie as rescucapt prob already know we use emd, well we are disp by the police dept and they end up giving us the emd as we are pulling up to the job. IMO the whole alpha bravo charlie delta echo thing is another way for some people to pick and choose their jobs. In NYC911 i'm assigned a...
We have the conterra basic O2 bag which has the o2, epi pens, o2 equip, bp cuffs, asa, bvms, port suction, just grab the aed, trauma bag (if needed) and chair and you're ready for your 9 story walk down.... :D
When I work in NYC911 we each carry a radio set on the boro disp freq. If we have an mci or any special reason the driver, who usually does all the radio comms, switches to citywide disp, as well as the truck radio. On our interfacility trucks we have one portable just in case...
The best thing I have found in a situation where I suspect a pt may vomitt, take a large red bag cut a slit in it place around their neck and let them puke in it, and if available make the new guy do it :D