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I don't know about the rest of you but my partner and i try to enrich the shift as much as possible with "that's what she said" moments. Unless my partner is a member of the rainbow warriors, in which case it is "that's what he said"...

It is an optional field on our PCR's. Until i became a member of our QA committee, i had always felt that it wasn't any bit of my business to comment on a patients race and i also had felt that it opened me up to legal liabilities, in that if i included race, i could be gone after for racially...

I'm in the middle. To be fully disclosed, i work full time in Minnesota's largest county, doing a volume of work, that no one in their right mind would ever volunteer for. I also am what i would consider, a volunteer firefighter in my suburb, meaning, i am paid when i respond to the station...

In my sexy polyester brown pants, i sport scissors and maybe narcotics if it is my day to carry them. My duty belt is where all the magic happens though... Flashlight, handcuffs, pager, glove thingy and radio holder. Up on my chest region, in addition to all my bling (badge, collar brass...

The biggest problem with the handheld devices is that they don't generally give you the ability to see a waveform (pleth). Much like capnography, the number is completely useless unless you have a good, consistent waveform. My service also choose not to get non invasive blood pressure on our...

One thing to keep in mind when you are dealing with the ICS, is that if you are assuming command, you are to have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with patient care and you are solely functioning in that role. At the point that you arrive and realize that there is a need for both patient care and the...

Can someone explain to me what the difference between the default 12 lead filter, 0.05-150Hz 4x3, and the filter I typically use, 0.05-40Hz 4x3 is on our Zoll E series? I have found i get a better, cleaner ECG if i use the latter, but really have no functional understanding of what the...

While you ladies sometimes need some extra room for a little junk in the trunk (generally appreciated), us boys need some breathing room for our underbits... That is the difference.

I am pretty sure a spousal exemption exists, plus, i trust my wife explicitly. Back on topic, i think a therapist can specialize in something that they just have a knack for, regardless of background. I fancy myself to be excellent with mental health patients, not because i have mental health...

Just leave it in the leg...

She is over it this time.

Here is one of my three narcolapdogs, Merja, with a little adenosine conversion... I asked the cat if she wanted to but, oddly enough, she told me to shove off... Just noticed i forgot the date...

Sorry to join the game late... Where do all of these down coats exist? I live in Minnesota (and have worked 5 winters for a cold weather camping program for the boy scouts), which is, by common definition, rather cold in the winter, sometimes the summer too, and i don't know anyone who owns a...

My little brother took his basic course the summer between his junior and senior year of high school through the volunteer EMS at the university of Minnesota. Try looking at other organizations besides traditional institutions. I had the opportunity to take my first responder and basic as high...

It seems offensive that they have manipulated a QA process into an arbitrary, rapidly disciplinary process. It really distorts what the QA goals are. I think this contributes to people thinking that QA is always a bad thing and that they are just being "dinged" for things that they either...

Paramedics are insomniacs but dogs are narcoleptics.

It is the state of Minnesota public employee retirement account. They have upped our contribution a slight amount in recent years, but for all intensive purposes, the the money i would normally continue to social security, instead goes towards this pension, so i will have a very limited social...

I declined a job offer at my current service to try a different gig at my previous service. There is a very good reason there is past tense and present tense as they reoffered the job to me 6 months later. Depending on the timeline a service is working on, if you are a strong enough...

I wear doc martens most of the time which do fine even in the ice and snow, and can double as a decent black casual shoe. I do have 8"boots i wear for fresh snow shifts and anything below -10 degrees f but my docs are my go to for 85% of the year. I can get about 3 solid years (1200 runs/year)...

In Minnesota, rural paramedics can start around $30k USD/year and my service in Minneapolis (which is the market driver for the Minneapolis St Paul metro area) starts at $44k USD/year and after 10 years, you make $67k USD/year. We also have overtime options, holiday pay, shift differentials and...