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Well one thing you can do is study a chapter a day, just to be sure you pass the test. You could try talking to your instructor and see if he/she can push it along for you.

There are many more important things in this field than trying to pick up women. Hell that should be the last thing on your mind when you are serving a duty to the community. It's a good thing he was kicked out, I'm sure if I was his patient I would be pretty PO'd I will admit I had academic...

Oh yea, I had a lot of fun evacuating elderly bedridden patients. We transported about 10 only to find out that the hospital was discharging all of them them after we dropped off the first seven. I guess because there wasn't a real medical emergency. So we brought them to a special shelter where...

Out of 40 people in my class I think three miserably failed the course test. Nobody dropped out. I totally agree with you, Cheif Complaint. I don't see why anyone would drop out from basic. It is a lot of common sense, basic anatomy, and skill learning. There is a bit of memorizing, but it has...

Yea if you talk to your captain, he/she might be able to help. It would just be easier to buy one though. Ebay isn't a bad choice either. Plenty of whackers selling lightbars on there. I'm a whacker. I know.

He was not conscious until we got to the hospital. The medics administered ativan en route to the hospital.

I am not a medic. So this talk about medicines is kinda iffy for me. I've heard about all of those, but I don't know too much about them. The medic did what he did and it seemed to work. We got to the hospital fine and the guy was alive and conscious. Although he had amnesia, which I believe is...

The national registry site usually has the results within like 4 hours on the site.

Here are the two with halogen (and our captain's car with halogens as well) and the second is the back of the LED one. I don't have any front pictures.

So far, my worst call is a seizure patient who had five seizures lasting about 3 minutes while he was in our care. It was a fun time trying to give him in IV when he was flailing about. We had him in a Reeves stretcher, but we didn't secure the arms so medics would have access. It would have...

You could try www.galls.com I get all of my equipment from there. Here's the pages for: full-size light bars...

It might have been brought up here, but I'm too lazy to look through this thread. Anyway, the Brady Emergency Care states: (paraphrased) patients that are under the influence of alcohol and drugs are considered altered mental status and are not able to refuse care. They must be treated as...

I'm sure you might have seen one of these (either in bus form or box truck form). This is our county mass casualty bus that I think fits 12 patients. It's coming to our building on Wednesday for a demonstration for a few squads nearby. Anybody have any actual experience with one of these? Here...

We have two ford Type I's and one ford Type III ambulance. They both ride pretty nicely and we never have any problems, especially in the winter. I rode in medium duty (not sure what make) ambulance on my ride time. Those things are amazing. I don't drive ambulances yet, my squad doesn't allow...

Two of our rigs have rotating halogens and strobes. I think our third (and newest) rig had an LED light bar and strobes. We don't take it out much, it's only for beriatric calls and motor vehicle accidents. As for my personal vehicle, I have a mini-phantom with 64 LEDs. Most of our squad has...

I'm lucky if I get one call a day. I probably only get a difficulty breathing every other week. Just about 90% of my calls I never use it. I might take a manual BP depending on their condition as opposed to an automated BP machine.

I'm on the central NJ coast on standby as well. We have about 50 mph winds, but there isn't much flooding right now. The coast line is actually going out. (shocking) We're going to be stuck here for a while. We have two crews at the building if needed. So far we haven't had any calls and we...

Yea, if you don't have EMT training, you're not an EMT. I had a few non-emergency transports today. Part of the evacuation for the hurricane we had a few bedridden people freaking out about it. I was out for like 5 hours going back and forth. And for nothing because the hopsitals released them...

Yea, I'm pretty new to the field. Just got certified a month ago. Thank you for the answers. I will definitely go for a BVM if possible.

I was wondering what other EMTs prefer to use. I was reading up on the airway chapter and I saw an interesting comparison between the two. I would think the best method is to use a BVM based on the ability to use oxygen if available. However, say someone with a basic jump bag came upon an apneic...