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You are driving down Main Street of your rural town when you see a person lying face down in a yard with a man bending over the person, talking on a cell phone. You look around for obvious scene safety threats, and, finding none, pull up, and identify yourself as an EMT. The man on the phone...

From FireRescue1.com: Full article here. Whaddya think about it?

You are dispatched for "general illness." Upon arrival, you find a female patient in her mid-50s. Friends report that she has been "sick" for the past couple days, but that when they stopped at her house to check on her just now, she was markedly worse. They tell you that she has no history...

As of late March, I will be gainfully employeed as an EMT-B for a private ambulance service. I'll be taking patients to dialysis, doctor's appointments, and doing interfacility transfers. My coworkers seem to be a great bunch of people, and pay is good, the hours are flexible, and I'm just...

Last night at about midnight, we were dispatched to an MVA with unknown injuries. I live closer to the scene than I do to the station, so I went directly to the scene. Upon arrival, I found one car that had lost control on a large sheet of ice, rolled over quite a few times, and landed in the...

If any of you know where I can find a good new or used pulse ox at a dirt cheap price, please let me know. Thanks!

For those of you in volunteer agencies, what do you do for your community fundraisers? Our station does flower sales, family protraits (done by professionals), mass mailings, BBQ sales, and car washes, but doing the same fundraisers over and over again gets boring, and it's always the same...

We all have great stories about our allies/enemies the dispatchers, who control the great god Motorola. Let's throw a few of them out to laugh at. I'll start with a few goodies (some I'd already posted, and some new ones) Dispatch: "Station X, respond ambulance to (address) for urinary...

I need to vent about my last 48 hours. A few of my calls: --I have had three priority fours, including a twenty-something father of three found swinging from a tree. While the police held the attention of his kids, we cut him down before they saw him. PS: Dispatch didn't tell us what...

http://www.nascar.com/2007/news/headlines/cup/01/11/gbiffle.vegas.crash.ap/index.html NASCAR driver Greg Biffle crashed his car several days ago. Although he was not seriously injured, I'd be interested in your reaction to the article I linked to above. Key excerpts are below:

If you're sitting around doing nothing, an EMT Student, or even an experienced EMT/Medic, check out these free practice patient simulators. I found them today while surfing the web, and they are both hillarious and useful. Good for a laugh, even if you don't learn anything from them, but I...

I work for a volunteer agency. Although all of us have had a problem with a partner at some time or another, I'm at my rope's end for what to do with a problem that I'm having. "Sarah" and I have run a lot of calls together. We are both EMT-Bs and usually get together very well. We are...

Dispatched for a male patient in full cardiac arrest at the local dialysis center. CPR in progress. Upon arrival approx. 3 minutes later, your pt. is seated upright on the bed, fully alert and oriented, with 2L via N/C flowing. Staff advises that the pt. appeared to doze off, but they...

I've looked around online and can't find the answer to this question: I am currently a Virginia EMT-B. I hope to be going to college in California. What do I have to do to become a California EMT-B? If I get NREMT, can I automatically become a California EMT? Or do I have to take the entire...

Hello, everybody. I think that I'm supposed to introduce myself here, so here goes: I'm a volunteer EMT-B/Fire Fighter in the middle of nowhere. I've read EMTLife for a while, but just signed up for a membership. In my spare time (spare time? what's that?), I enjoy fishing, hiking, and just...