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I just read this article about peds IV starts with the bevel side down, http://www.ems1.com/ems-training/articles/804343-The-bevel-down-technique/ and it made me wonder, why bevel side up in the first place?

*Let me preface this with I'm a noob and I've never run a code, much less a ped code but, I was blown away by this lecture. I went to it with a lieutenant from a neighboring dept. that has been a paramedic for 12 years, and he was really impressed. The lecture was given by Dr. Peter Antevy...

Their website seems good and the Craigslist ad was well written. Seems like a good bunch of people although a start up company. Just wondering if anyone has any first hand experience with them.

I just got a email from a local ambulance company that I put a app in with. They're interested, and I'm STOKED! I graduate May 5th, so to have a lead on a job now....I'm thrilled. I think the timining is really good since two local companies just merged and got a huge contract from a new...

More specifically a one handed one? It seems like a good design but I'm wondering if there's a reason that normally you don't see them that way. The link is to the unit I was looking at on ebay....not trying to spam, just wanting some feedback. The other unit looks much nicer, but is also $50...

Yesterday was my fourth ride along as a EMT-B student, and I think the first time I started to feel like I might have a little bit of bearings about me. I know when to grab the heart monitor when I jump out the door, my seat is always backwards when I leave the bus, 4 x 4 gauze pads forward to...

The internets were coming up with either referred pain, or blocked vessels on that side causing pain. With my finely honed hogwarts researching skills, the sites I was finding seemed a little suspect. I was hoping someone here could confirm/deny and give a short explination. Right now I'm...

I'm new. Like new, new. I'm in school for EMT-B and just went on my second ten hour ambulance shift. I got partnered with a paramedic and another EMT-B. Normally it's two paramedics, but I was told, in some rare cases, they hire EMT's. The EMT had been working in this system for five years...

With head trauma why nausea/puking? I'm thinking something about the brain stem and regulating pressure. But then, why not explosive diarrhea or urination or some other sort of thing? Just a weird thing, or is there a reason that the body wants all the stomach contents out specifically?

Studying for a test tomorrow. I get pinching the nostrils together for fifteen minutes and sitting in a forward position, but why the gauze pad between the upper lip and gum? Also, in my half assed search before I asked here, I came across this: "When you get a nosebleed, take some cayenne...

Why? I can't think of what would cause this and my limited internet search didn't help. I know one of you brainy brains will know.

I'm still a baby student EMT-B, but I was thinking that alot of you probably get this quite alot. I was just talking to a guy at Starbucks. He saw my books and said, "Oh, you're studying to be a EMT" and then proceed to tell me how he dropped "dead" on the basketball court at 24 hour fitness...