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So far, the workload seems the same, but I also just started my 1st semester. I anticipate some things will pick up along the way, which is expected. I opted to start PT this semester, but the company makes it pretty hard not to take advantage of educational opportunities.

After a two decade layoff from school, I’ll admit going back for my bachelor’s degree seems slightly daunting with a FT job and 4 kids, but I am easing into it and have always been good at time and task management so I am trying to remain optimistic about it. An EMT course seems like such a...

When your 12 year old can’t stop laughing at the fight scene in the forest scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, and your 4 year old sits through and approves of The Princess Bride… …yup, there is hope yet for this generation.

It’s LA, they are gods among men. Kidding, no clue. It could have been edited. Truthfully i still have trouble getting some ground providers to prime and apply the ETCO2 to the BVM. Teachable moments I suppose. Back on the thread. Our son is between Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, and most...

Don’t forget Jewel of the Nile. While not her, Teri Garr can kick off a Mr. Mom binge😬

Was watching that LA Fire & Rescue show, mostly for the fact that it’s filmed in and around areas I both covered and lived in. They run an arrest, FFPM still intubates supine on the ground, no ETCO2, no Bougie. AMR still left the back doors to their ambulance wide open. I mean on the plus...

Shout out to all my fellow dad’s out there. Happy Pappy’s Day.

I hear that. We’re trying to give our kids the best of both worlds since we’re smack dab in the middle of a major metropolis and “middle” America.

Got some tickets to our first minor league ballgame. Not gonna lie, pretty excited to check it out, ballpark and all. Feels like real Summer Americana.

First movie at the theater post-Covid, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3. It was pretty damn good. Still my favorite sub-franchise of the Marvel Universe.

Sorry, yes. Basically fire and/ or EMS. Specifically at the EMR/ EMT level.

I feel like all of these acronyms come and go. Some may stick a bit longer than most, but how many providers truly stop themselves in their tracks to remember the “current life-saving acronym”? I have heard of MARCH, and I am sure if it’s being or been published in the new civilian trauma...

Sooo, you went to Tri-School?… Sure beats the hell out of my “walked three miles up hill in the snow on cold SoCal winter mornings to get to school” stories I’ve been feeding our kids.

Quick derailment. It’s a well known—and all to exhausting— fact that there seems to be no shortage of adolescent-minded “adults” that struggle with adulting well into their 70’s. OP, don’t be that person. Back on topic, I think @NomadicMedic replied to the OP with the most honest and...

@NomadicMedic beat me to the Bluey punch. #DadsoftheWorldUnite.

My Wife made an icebox cake. Damn, that’s that crack rock…dangerous.

Correct, my priority would be proper airway management whether BLS or ALS. Like most medications, Narcan carries a multitude of side effects, most applicable to this patient—who was either semi, or completely unresponsive—is vomiting. Also, may I ask why you are thinking shock? I’m guessing...

Unfortunately, I still see way too many field providers giving Narcan blindly without forethought in patient presentation and assessment. It’s recent layman’s accessibility does not help, but I digress. I would be hard pressed to give this patient Narcan based off of the OP’s information...

Stroke Ambulances (to my knowledge) have largely been a waste of time and money. I don’t know of any prehospital point-of-care marker to differentiate stroke types. Also worth mentioning, the other markers you’re referring to are largely not utilized in the prehospital settings as tools such...