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Are you saying that your standard Dispatcher protocol is to instruct lay responders to do unprotected mouth-to-mouth breaths? I find that hard to believe.

The MRCs are volunteer groups. I'm in the Fremont (Cali) MRC, and we do a number of things, including free immunization clinics. We were part of the mass immunization clinics for the H1N1 virus, for example. We are also looking into public health outreach efforts, like health screening at the...

There is a 2-week boot camp in NorCal. It's not the Inland Empire, but not too far. You stay at the boot camp for the 2 weeks. http://www.unitekeducation.com/ . .

It's being discussed a bit in the Lounge: http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=6967 .

Haven't been asked that in an interview, but certainly had it come up in real life. One example was a BLS standby that I did at a triathlon in Santa Cruz. After the swim leg, the athletes had to run up a long wooden stairway to get up to the parking lot transition area. I got there early...

Sunnyvale, CA, uses combination Police/Firefigter/EMTs (but not Medics, AFAIK): http://www.sunnyvaledps.com/recruiting.htm I still remember the first time I saw a bunch of police cars skidding to a stop outside a building where the fire alarm was going off, and watching them open the...

The last couple episodes actually haven't been all that bad. Way fewer mistakes, IMO. Even a couple of interesting scenarios -- like the devout muslim couple on last night's show. Definitely hard to tread the wife's MI with the husband refusing to let them take her blouse off to put on the...

Oh crap Jon. Stair descents? Isn't that where you get off the bicycle and walk it down briskly? Oh well, hang in there and heal up.

Royal Ambulance has been growing in the East and South Bay areas. Looks like they have two positions open in the San Jose area: https://royalambulance.jobs/positions/read_job/3 They do code-2 transport, in addition to the IFT work.

Summit Uniforms is used by many folks here in San Jose: http://www.summituniforms.com/ Good quality, and good customer service.

If you are unresponsive, I don't generally check for papers. I do check for bracelet and anklet IDs. Get one soon please! Thanks for the thread.

I'm not religious (but my ex-wife and kids are), so prayer's only component IMO in my work is for comfort between the Pt and their family/friends. I'm certainly not going to stop what I'm doing to join in, but it's interesting about the mixed emotions I had on a recent call. As background...

An emergency is not a disaster, and especially not a declared disaster. Per my understanding, you cannot use HAM comm for that scenario. It's an obnoxious and legally complicated area, so I won't pretent to understand. But the use of HAM radio by any government or business entity is extremely...

I don't think it relates to paid EMS work. In fact, legally it can't. But to our volley outside affiliations, it can be crucial. It's our main coordination mechanism for our Tri-City CERT teams locally, and most of our local Fire Stations have HAM stations inside them. Our HAM table is an...

I don't know if it's happening with other folks' browsers, but each time I clicked through to the next page, it took me to the bottom of the next page, not the top. Just a small issue, and easy to work around in the short term. But a bug in the form if others are seeing it too. I'm on Vista...

Definitely a safety hole in the track design. Air fences would fix that one hole, but I wonder how many other safety holes there are. The racers are the best judges of that.

Test and license is something like $30 or so (depends on where you test). License is good for 10 years. An entry-level handheld transceiver (HT) plus basic accessories is about $200-$250. KI6EGL Newark, CA ARES Emergency Coordinator (EC)

Sounds like a good project. Here's a good resource for you: http://www.jems.com/index.html It's one of the EMS magazines. You may find some of the articles helpful, especially the ones about Continuing Education (CE), and about new innovations in equipment (Like the Ranger Video...

Glad to be of service. :D

Tough call in several ways. First, it sounds like you are getting out of there soon, so that's good anyway. Definitely be as careful as you can until you leave, in terms of personal safety. I wouldn't work on anything that didn't have a working emergency stop, and if you are given a bad time...