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i wasnt working this past xmas, but i did last year, and we had an interesting call. had a kid who opened up a gift, i think it was a game console of some kind, and he was so excited taht he was waving it around in the air. accidentally let go and it flew into his dad's face... wasnt anything...

i use Linux, ubuntu to be specific. no more viruses or computer crashes, everything free of charge, software downloaded straight from online repos, and heckuva lot easier to set up than windows. too bad everyone thinks its for geeks

u shouldnt have gotten a complaint. scene safety is day 1 of emtb class. discretion is the better part of valor in this job as for the responses about putting on iso gowns and trudging heroically towards the victims... not to be rude but that's just a bad idea on so many levels u did the...

not a problem, that's life on the internet didn't Brown go to college for 4 years to be a medic in New Zealand? wonder if he thinks RNs would be any better than a medic with a degree

relax, we're on the same side i would also like to point out that Journey is ventmedic and it's so obvious that it hurts

crics, starting IVs, EKG interpretation, etc are actually not monkey skills, but its nice to see you sticking up for your profession

i would have called ALS because of that BP.

considering the fact that they are still breathing, i would call the fire department and draw up some epi. i'm not going in there, sorry. the other option of improvising iso gowns, etc as protection is something i would consider if i didn't see chest rise. frankly it would take just as...

well here's my reasoning behind promoting medic education as opposed to transitioning to nursing. to be a nurse, one obtains a four-year degree. the advantages of this compared to a 2,000 hour medic course are numerous-- more experience, more education, etc. however, an rn does not...

i would really love to continue this discussion but a) increasing medic education should be our focus, not putting nurses on ambulances, and b) you are ventmedic

so the other day i had the honor of being present at my friend giving birth to her son. everything was fine until the very end, when the baby's heart rate started dropping. the doc told her to "push now" and the baby was out, fortunately they got him to pink right up. now they used a...

keep the child calm and call ALS. if no ALS, get to the hospital ASAP. yesterday, if possible. i had the misfortune of having one of these pts a few months ago. my partner thought it was croup and figured it was a good idea to check the mouth and palpate the trachea. fire department had...

i was referring to medics who go to nursing school and work as nurses, mostly due to pay and avoiding the fire service. Most medics come out with about about 700 hours of clinicals if i recall correctly, not as much as nurses but no minor amount either don't have hard info on it, just what...

rather than transitioning to nurses, cant we move towards higher level degrees for paramedicine? nurses are trained to operate in a controlled setting and would need to be retrained from the ground up after graduating nursing school. i dont say this out of ignorance, i've discussed this with...

Well here's the anhydrous ammonia MSDS http://www.tannerind.com/anhydrous-msds.html also, gotta be honest, im not so sure this is just a training exercise. especially with the part where the mic cuts in and out because the trooper is "trying to breathe." just looks way too real.

also, the fire guys were fiddling with a backboard when they should have been rapidly removing the trooper and the patient away from the source of the hazmat.

well real or otherwise it's an important reminder to emergency personnel. here are the state trooper's errors: - not backing away to a safe distance once the vapor became visible - assuming it was smoke when signs pointed to something much more sinister: white vapor, large tank leaking...

i just checked over at another ems forum where this was posted, and the op (and subsequent comments) are all under the impression that it is real. not sayin your wrong linuss, either way this is an important reminder for scene safety.

a very sad and preventable death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvDEVhR7u4U

can't... stop... laughing...