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Thought I would update. I received the XShears in December and since then have had ample opportunities to use them. They are amazing. They cut through everything including motorcycle gear (he had some kind of mobile airbags on his clothes that deployed but they went straight through all the...

HAHAHA!!

I understand. So we can always see if the call to us came from fire or police or if either was called by our dispatch based on the info from the caller. In fact I can see all other personel on a call (meaning who is in the BLS or ALS ambulance or the names of any first responders who might be...

@M3dicalR3dn3ck PD comes to a call for bleeding even without report of assult?

I agree with E Tank. Did she tell dispatch that it was an assult?

Had a really hard night shift. A woman having a stillborn and a 40 year old man with cancer having a PE after surgery and crying to his mother that he was dyeing (he was right). It's when we are hurting that our care is so important to others. So glad I didn't have a student with me.

How is it the firefighters can fit themselves in the tiniest holes? While I am sure that smaller firefighters exist, most of ours ar the biggest people in the country. Had a call a few weeks ago that a kid got stuck in a tomb and the fire dept had to come to help extract him. The chief of the...

Are there any differences between a lava burn and other burn? Is that something you ever treat in Hawaii or does it not really happen?

Not on the radio but we had a death certification (he had been dead for many hours before we came) and the trainee asked if we should take his bp to be sure.

That makes sense. I'm just thinking about things that we would call for, namely drowning (the dead sea is far from any hospital), trauma/enviornmental and MVA. While drowning and trauma are often (although not always) only 1 pt, a serious car accident can have several pts. I am going to have to...

Got it. Thank you. My only expreiance with a helecopter was taking a pt from the landing place to the hospital about 20 years ago. They landed and brought the pt to us. Now we have landing places right on the hospital grounds so that is no longer an issue. We will call in a helecopter for...

I obviously know nothing about helecopters so please excuse me if these sound like stupid questions but a) if the helecopter is off what difference does uphill or down hill make? b)I though you needed a flat place to land so why would there be an uphill/downhill? Also, if you turn it off to...

Thank you for the explination! Interesting. Why?

What does that mean? (I have never had to call in a helecopter)

My 4 year old just told me she thinks I drive around on my ambulance and give out kisses and bandaids all day.

Thanks everyone. I decided to go for the Xshears. Now just waiting for them to arrive.

I was referring more to dr. Parasites comment. I am well aware of how litigious the US is how lucky I am to be protected from such litigation. As it happens I agree that our system would not work on the scale of most US states.

Wow....

Why on earth would you not want bls to take blood sugar?!

BLS can't put in an IV in the US?