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Does anyone have any experience with Bangs Ambulance? Was looking to possibly apply there part-time and wanted to know if anyone had any thought about the company/area?

So a few times i saw floating around the internet, a warning of a small child that took these two drugs together and it caused a sudden cardiac arrest because of the reaction. None of what i saw was from credible medical sites and I can't really find other info about it. Has anyone heard of this?

Anyone have nay experience with this company?

What are some atypical, unusual places paramedics work?? Cruise ships, oil rigs, set medics are really the only ones I have heard of... Where else??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGM9_BNR9jg&feature=youtu.be Everytime the word "nurse" is said, just replace it with "paramedic/EMT"... Thoughts on this video??

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/portland-anarchist-bans-cops-assisting-911-call-heroin-overdose-article-1.1796455 "anarchist" shop owner calls 911 for one of the friendly neighbor hood diabetics over dosing in the bathroom... shop owner tells 911 that FD/EMS can come in but no...

So next weekend I will be the lead EMT in a first aid room at the annual concert on the local college campus we cover... This is a large concert held every year and all the students usually get very drunk so this first aid room ends up being where all the security and roaming EMS crews will walk...

Anyone have a place i can steal some training power points from?

21 yo F c/o 2/10 chest pain, palpitations, and dizziness sudden on set prior to calling 911. Pt described the feeling as not so much pain as it was a feeling like her heart was going to skip out of her chest. (Vitals HR:130 BP: 142/100 RR:18r) I gave 4 aspirin as per c/p protocol...

Am I alone or does this happen where you work too? So a crew used a truck and left it a disaster (<----not the issue this thread is about). Day shift comes on, finds the truck and everyone wants to cry cry cry "joe" and "bob" didn't clean their truck, joe and bob are lazy. joe this, bob that...

So I work with Dual trucks (1 ALS, 1 BLS provider)... we go on a call for a 31 male chest pain, clammy. Pt presents seated in a wheelchair outside the motel smoking a cigarette with his girlfriend. C/O chest pain, for a month, extremely worse today. Girlfriend states he had 2 grand mal seizures...

Just got ogg the overnight and had this debate with another provider... We run dual trucks (ALS+BLS provider)...most of the time. Every now and then we have a BLS only truck. If you are the BLS providers on the BLS truck, should you/ would you check the ALS equipment. In my opinion a basic is...

Last night I responded to an intox call in a dorm on the college campus in our district... In the room was an RA (Resident Assistant- basically a student who is in charge of the floor of his/her dorm. They have reports and documentation that have to go to student conduct of the intoxicated pt)...

We do 4 days on 4 days off. 3 Trucks per shift crew 1 and 2 are your full timers (6-18/18-06 and 7-19/19-07) crew 3 is your "part timers" and "bid shift" 00-08,08-16,16-00. any one can bid on this truck. They try to make it ALS but some days it becomes a BLS truck. How do your shifts/...

i work in two systems, NYC and Central new york. down in the city basics and medics are on separate trucks... when i work in cny, we work on the same truck, one paramedic and one basic.... i prefer having dual trucks, you don't have to wait for als and its good for the basic to learn ALS assist...

had an arrest recently... extended down time, rigor starting to set in... i know ACLS took atropine out of the protocols for arrests recently but the old timer in me went back to the old days and pushed atropine. asystole on the monitor... QA/QI was not too happy with me when they reviewed by...

So what are your opinions on Pt's riding on the bench. I work with a partner who is absolutely dead set against it. He makes every single pt sit on the stretcher and scolds me when i let them sit on the bench and walk into the ER. do you guys allow pt's on the bench and do any of your shops have...

Does anyone wear bulletproof vests on the job?