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So firstly, I just want to say I mean no arrogance in this post, but there is definitely two types of people in EMS.. The eager rookie / slow paced rural / volunteer EMT, and the seasoned 10+ year paramedic who has worked in a big city and been in the :censored::censored::censored::censored...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/16/were-in-a-war-with-the-fire-department/ great article!

Is anyone else on the breaking point with h1n1? lol, or is it just alberta that has all the closet panic mongering whiney "I'm the sickest person in the ER why am I waiting" pt.'s coming out of the wood work. Calling an ambulance for transport to the ER because you have a cough and fever...

here's a little story from where I work that happened a couple of days ago, some food for thought most definitely. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/points+loaded+paramedics/1162872/story.html

so we got a call to a nursing home the other day, unwitnessed fall, the guy had some hardcore back pain but CMS x 3/3 in all extremeties, touch point tenderness in his lumbar spine, so we decided to board this guy... only problem was he had BIG TIME kyphosis, my partner wanted to put a pillow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzsMXTPop0&feature=related I wish we had more commercials like that here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI but here's some from canada :P

When a patient dies, a family member dies, a friend dies. In the EMS field we deal with death alot. Death, what does it mean to you? How do you rationalize it, how do you cope with it, and most importantly how do you heal from it.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=15535755706 from edmonton alberta :P

How many smokers are out there in EMS?

I was down south, we were on a febrile peds call, and when the medic I was working with felt her forehead he said "hey baby girl" in a really fatherly kind of way, and it really made an impression on me for some reason. I'm not from the south so I can't pull that one off being in Canada :P But...

I'm a Canadian EMT-A (EMT-I equivilant in the states) It took me about a year and a half of school and practicums to finally be certified and licensed to work. In Canada, the "EMT-B" is called an Emergency Medical Responder. The only work EMR's are able to find in alberta canada, is medical...

So, I got 3 days left to wrap up my ambulance practicum for my EMT-A (EMT-I for you americans) I'm a Canadian student, but I'm doing my practicum in baton rouge louisiana because you guys have "knife and gun clubs" lol... Well, apparently I am a white cloud, because for most of my rotation...

Man, Do I ever have a uniquely difficult series of questions I can't seem to find right answers to. I hope ridryder is still kicking around because I know he made the leap from paramedic to nurse. OK!!! Here's the situation as of right now. I live in Canada, I am an EMT-A student...

any good EMS documentaries or movies out there? the only thing I could find was some crappy 70's movie/show called Emergency!

In school a few days ago our teacher was telling us that the average burnout time for paramedics in our city before they either injure themselves, or become so mentally drained they no longer function at the level required for the job, is approximately 5 years. In some ways that almsot seems...

Body substance isolation.... Kinda scary stuff when you think about it being a Paramedic. Have you ever had any scary moments? get anything questionable into your eye/nose/mouth? had to get tested? Know of any EMS personnel that contract serious diseases from their line of work? I was...

so.... I'm an EMS student right now, aspiring to rise up the ladder to EMT-P as soon as possible, and dreaming of one day working on STARS, our local helicopter team. well, I don't know if this is normal for someone going through school. But I am, growing... well, obsessed with EMS? Its...

so I live in edmonton alberta, I'm taking my EMR course right now, its a 2 week course at the school I'm attending. Some schools its 3 weeks full time, and others its 6-8 part time. The breakdown in alberta for the different levels is EMR EMT EMT-P EMR certifies you to work in rural...

I was just curious as to whether being a paramedic, on certain calls if your curious about how the patient did or is doing, what kind of access your allowed to them after they're in the hospital? like for instance say with critical cases, once you get them to the hospital and they're in the...

Hi, my name's Jesse, i'm a 21 year old male living in edmonton alberta Canada. The past few years of my life have been a roller coaster, joined the army at 19, worked as a porter at a hospital, backpacked europe, and now I'm working in the oil industry in the booming economy of alberta Canada...