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Yeah, and lift the toilet seat. Where are your manners? :)

You might also look into volunteering at your local hospital, to start to gain some experience with patient contacts and with the medical field in general. Since your high school is "medical based", isn't there a counselor there who can help you to answer some of these questions? And maybe...

Thanks for the practice diagrams. Always good to refresh... :)

At a minimum it would seem that a quick assessment should include checking blood glucose level and doing a stroke test. If they fail the stroke test, that will influence which hospital the Pt gets transported to. If they are hypoglycemic, we can get their blood sugar up some before we get to...

+1 Do you have your own SCBA compressor? Maybe install a HAM radio and antenna for backup communication (do you have an active local HAM group?).

After you get your textbooks, work to stay ahead of the material that is being covered. It's a big help to have read the material at least once before hearing it in class. There is a lot of memorization in EMS, so work to see what memorization techniques work best for you. I found that...

Yikes! From the article...

Bad rollover MVA with ejection of unrestrained female driver. As I assessed her, she started panicing and getting farther into respiratory distress. She got into the classic "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" And I calmly responded, "That's okay, that's not a problem. I have my kit right...

Understood. Hey, any idea why she was "cleansing" before the event? I volunteer at a number of triathlons (including ironman triathlons), half/full marathons, etc. during the summer, and haven't heard any athletes mentioning cleansing so far. Have you heard it mentioned before?

Sounds a bit like hyponatremia. How much was she drinking? How much was she peeing and what color? Did she say she was hungry when you were assessing her?

Do you know where on the course you will be posting? Is there cell phone coverage over the whole course, or will there be HAM radio SAG support?

That's a great approach, if you can be in both Explorer programs for a while. From my perspective, it comes down to how you want to deal with people in your work. For FF EMTs/Medics, it's about patient contacts. Do you like dealing with people who need your help medically? I've found that I...

Not sure about in Kern county, but here in Santa Clara County (CA) you get a temporary paper license when you turn in your re-cert paperwork, and my state card came about 2-3 weeks later.

Great book. The Chihuahua story had me in tears (the happy kind).

Will include this reminder in our monthly training meeting for January. Thanks.

Well, that might actually work, for real low speed accidents, and where the Pt ended up in ICU for a day or two, so they could see how the organs were doing. On a funnier note, there used to be a store that we passed on the way up to deer hunting many years back -- "Guns, Bullets and Booze"...

What organs are you going to harvest after an unrestrained impact? Maybe a little scleral tissue, but not much else useful...

Quiz Question -- Why is the term "donorcycle" a misnomer? (BTW, I commute on a Buell 1200 Firebolt)

Here's a link to the story: http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/163015/1/moto2_shoya_tomizawa_dies_of_misano_injuries.html They mention the helicopter, but I'm not sure I believe the reason behind the decision.

Nice post, Veneficus.