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So Im going to give a talk to high schoolers about EMS as a career. Im looking for suggestions to include in my talk. My thought were to talk about subjects that relate to EMS like biology, math, English, Psychology, & Medical Terminology.

I found this interesting. Atrovent is contraindicated in pts with an allergy to peanuts.

I recently started caring a whistle on duty after responding to a call with our local police department. Part of their required uniform is a traditional whistle. Well we could not find our pt because they were down in a drainage ditch with our pt. PD doesn't have direct channels to talk with EMS...

http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/news/Gunman_Kills_Paramedic.html

We need to honor those that give thier lives in training & preformance of thier services. Unfortunately we have two more to add to that ever growing list, Karsheika Graves 21, and Taneshia Butler 26. Rest in peace. Full story...

Anyone else having trouble accessing thier scores recently. I passed my Paramedic level practicals last month and took my written Tues. (02/12). I when to 85 questions and they were pretty hard. So I will wait & see.

Did you see this article on the JEMS website recently on some studies of rural basics intubating? http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/columns/Werfel/An_ETI_Model_for_EMT-Bs.html So my question is do you think Basics and Intermediates should be allowed to intubate with ETT?

I am in the process of writing my last research paper for medic school. My topic is EMS treatment of animals. I am looking at various aspects of this topic, but mostly treatment of canines. This is due to the fact that they are used in a service role much more often than other animals. I would...

I am just curious with the diverse crowd on this web site if any current or former millitary poeple would go and sign up today knowing what you know? If you would what would you get in writing?

Those of us on this website that are currently in medic school sound off, yeah, yeah! Where and graduation date: University of New Mexico's EMS Academy I'm in the middle of the second semester of three right now graduate Dec. 2007

Here in New Mexico Intermediates and Medic could start femoral IVs about 6 years ago. They have since removed it from our scope of practice for Is and medics. Any of you all allowed to do them? I think we were allowed to do them before the adult IOs got popular. I also was told in medic school...

I am just curious what ER Techs in other areas are allowed to do. At my facility most of the techs are allowed to do. At my hospital all our techs are currently EMT-Is, Paramedics, or EMT-B with a special ER Tech class that is similar to a EMT-I class except taylored for the ER. We start...

I did a field rotation for my medic program last week and my medic preceptor had a regular heating pad she wrapped IV fluids in to warm them. I use to have a mountainous response area where hypothermia pts were not uncommon. All of our amulances had hot paks that held 3 liters of IV fluids at a...

I have thought about this for a long time. With cop cars getting cameras it is just a matter of time before we get them. I am just curious if they will ever put them in the patient compartment? Here is the story: http://www.jems.com/news/276760/

I work mostly in an Adult Intensive Care Unit now. The other night we had a pt brought to us in severe DKA with Kussmaul breathing, profuse vomiting, altered LOC, and BGL in the 1000s mg/Dl. The intensivist ordered 6 liters LR over a 1-2 hours and insulin. I asked him why LR and he told me that...

Do any other responders find that drivers are inattentive and some refuse to yield for non-police vehicles going code 3? I find this to be a common problem in both the urban and rural departments I have worked for and other agencies I work with. Our pals at PD and SO need to give us some back up...

When does taking photos of scenes for training purposes go too far? http://www.jems.com/news/239939/ With the availability of camera in cell phones and smaller digital cameras this is at the fore front of privacy issues in EMS. I think this EMT would have been alright if he would have...

Has anyone taken the HOBET? It is a new entrance test nationwide for EMS and nursing programs. I just took it after review the book for it. I think it is the worst test I have ever taken and I have two AAS degrees. The questions are not cut and dry. They ask you about your study style and other...

I am just opening up the discussion. I just came from a rural service where we had full time rigs that were staffed by one EMT-P and one EMT-I. We had volunteer rigs in the surrounding areas that were ILS or BLS depending on the responding staff. On the full time rigs the Intermediates attended...

Are any of you other EMS personell getting called to vollunteer to stage to respond to New Orleans? The dept. of Health for New Mexico is registering those willing to go over to that area. http://www.health.state.nm.us/ http://www.health.state.nm.us/katrina/registryform.asp They are looking for...