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I am wondering how to deal with this situation on our ambulance. Was paged out to transport a pt that has a history of seizures, was on a ton of meds and admitted to smoking pot that morning. Has a brain tumor. As I was driving to the medical center to pick this pt up my ambulance manager is...

I saw the neatest type of stethoscope today. It actually sat under the BP cuff and you can disconnect the ear pieces. Instead of being the round shape it was a rectangle shape that was curved to fit on the persons arm. I was wondering how this would work in the ambulance during a long transport...

What is the funniest thing a kid or even your kid has said? Was making dinner tonight and my daughter cleared her throat loudly and I asked her what she needed. "Nothing I just got something stuck in my throat and I'm trying to get it to go down my ethopia." What? "Don't you mean your...

Got a 2 day class coming up next week. Protocol has been changed (again) and we are going to learn to not only set up the IV, but to do the vein puncture. Any tips? I also volunteered to be stuck. I have some good veins on my hands.

I get called to chaperone different class trips. Taking kids down different rivers and ski trips. What would you pack with you? Last trip I packed my AED, sams splints, alcohol packages, gauze rolls, 4x4, curlex, mask, asprin, anti diahrria and a couple of other things. We had a satelite...

I have got that nasty little practical joker streak in me. The other EMS personal who know me HATE it when I get to be the pt for practice. Back in '07 I was asked to be a pt at around 20,000 ft suffering from pain in my lower right abdomen. Now I can't just make it easy. I had at least 4...

Hello everyone. Just to introduce myself. I am a volunteer EMT-B also president of our local volunteer fire company. I am in central Montana. My family and I farm and ranch. Married with 2 kids one boy and one girl. One great husband that deals with the calls and training and cusses my...