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What to do when you are without your Pocket-mask and need to ventilate someone that you dont quite think would be health to lip-lock with out it? I have wondered this now and again, what would my options be. Grab a plastic back and poke a hole in it over the mouth to try and create a barrier...

Just got accepted in to Paramedic school! So i'm pumped, It starts Aug 24. Any tips/suggestions of what to expect or to do/not to do.? That kind of stuff...

I just passed the EMT-B final! and now I've just got the NREMT to take care of!

Alright so I'm finishing my EMT in 2 weeks and then need to take the NREMT and then will be good to start applying to the local companies. Any tips or suggestions? I want to be working this summer with classes and will be starting medic school in the fall and learn what its like in the field.

Alright, so i live in Michigan and am attending LCC (Lansing Community College) for my EMS and Fire science training and have always heard of it being a pretty well known college in those areas and fairly well respected. I used to tend bar at a local bar and had some Chicago Firefighters come in...

so im just trying to learn all the abbreviations commonly used. I know a few of the more basic ones but not all. So any abbreviations that anyone uses a lot and may not be well known please post them. For example, the other day i had a ride along and when i was done the medics i ride with have...

So anyone out there have a Littmann Classic II S.E. or a Littmann Cardiology III? What do you think about them? I've heard they are both sweet scopes. I'm looking to upgrade my current cheap scope that i have a hard time with unless it is completely silent where i am, which NEVER happens...

Alright, so i'm a EMT-B student, about to be up for my NREMT and will be going on to paramedic. I have been having a hard time hearing breath sounds and taking a BP unless it is perfectly quiet, which is rarely the case most of the time. And it doesn't help that i am a little hard of hearing...

Alright so im new to the forum so i guess ill give a little base info. i am half way in to my first semester of my EMT-basic classes at LCC(Lansing community college). i am getting the information down but all the steps of actually doing the procedures or steps to actually even be able to start...