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Have a look at ACT if you want to do a Uni course, (both course and Ambulance Service), as you are qualified as an ICP straight after you graduate

Makes you wonder why drinks like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_%28drink%29 are allowed on the market. Then again I'm assuming 280 mg of caffeine in one hit is unhealthy and dangerous purely because the drink was banned down-under until they lowered the amount of caffeine in it...

Not sure if this was posted but in NSW, they have these

define heavy? I don't mean to sound insensitive but the course of action taken depends on the answer. There is a point where doing a certain amount small reps of weights of high load would increase strength but not make the muscle as bulky as exercises with bigger reps however I would not...

Did Dispatch but it was really quiet. We had a severe thunderstorm so most people stayed at home and didn't cause trouble or over drink.

I don't agree with that either , I prefer EMS and rescue to be free-ish service as a basic right to all who live in a country, supported by the government and be payed for by taxes or by a set yearly membership fee (latter being done where I am).

That's what I'm thinking. Good outcome from a great job.

I strongly disagree with this. Does that mean that people who don't have a spare $250 are left in their vehicle?

What a great gift for the parents to have there son still around for X-Mas. Great Work by the paramedics! I hope they did revive him in time. Not just journalists but the general public. I heard quite a few people go, Oh so and so dies of a heart attack and I reply, no I'm pretty sure they...

It's a tough one, I have been told (I still have to find out exactly for which state I'm in as the good Samaritan law is determined at a state level) where I am from that if you stop and administer first aid, you can be sued but the judge must throw out the case if it is deemed that the good...

I'm hearing conflicting things about the single degree paramedics courses at Vic Uni and Monash. I'm a bit confused and not really sure which Uni I want to go to as some people tell me VU is better and at the moment and some tell me Monash is better. I have been told that Vic Uni is more hands...

I have never seen a medic wear shorts. From an OHS perspective and as you pointed out, it could be a problem so I highly doubt any one would but that's not to say it doesn't happen.

At the time it was introduced, it was not base level. Scope of Practice is not the same but to show an example, EMT-B = Graduate Paramedic EMT-I = ALS (also known as Qualified) Paramedic EMT-P = MICA Flight Medic = MICA Flight Paramedic I mean the difference of the scope of practice (CPGs)...

I want to point out Ambulance Victoria have ALS paramedics and then MICA. They used to have graduate paramedics who were people who applied directly to the Ambulance Service (now phased out) People who have done a degree in Emergency Health which is usually a three year course are called...

I think you either are a public risk or not a public risk and if you are a public risk, you should be committed

Does having the vaccine protect you from mutations of a virus?

Why run if you can go code 1?

So are medics getting K-9 units now?

I was taught not to administer oxygen to someone hyperventilating and certainly not to administer oxygen at 15l/min (I assume they where using a Hudson mask) unless using a BVM. Where I'm from once a paramedic is on scene they run the show and we assist when they need it. Who are over worked...

That is why I believe that all (at least all major) emergency services should be run by the government. After all we don't need a robocop type police, fire brigade or Ambulance service around. You are paramedic with them?