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It's actually a very time consuming and annoying process when you say yes to that. Saying no is easier. I Don't have anything to hide, I just have no Interest in being part of a fishing expedition.

Stroke. Yesterday it was a hemorrhagic stroke. Day before was a foot vs lawnmower with amputated great toe..........looks like that new medic black cloud has caught me.

B/p of 60/42

Had a DOA, a crazy vent run, and a code save today. I feel like a real paramedic. Also had to extricate a 10 y/o from a bicycle, but that was my partners run.

Ive had that call before. No point in transporting when it can be fixed. In other news, yesterday was cardiac arrest in a grocery store. One shock PTA. 14 shocks by us. 8 more at the hospital. Finally called it after 3 hours from first responder cpr. Monday was 30% full thickness burns...

Got a call to submit s bg check for the PT job I tested for. Good sign

This.

I dont carry a light anymore since I work dayshift now.

Pulled peg tube at a SNF

Double medic truck. 7 runs. 11 patient contacts. 10 reports. 0 ALS skills performed.

Two TIA's today. Watches a guy have a TIA in front of me. Fasciculation in the left temple followed by droop and flaccid on the left side and garbled speech. Back to normal 7 minutes later. Kind of cool to see.

Tia

Not sure on the exact numbers but I would bet its higher than the percentage that want to carry narcan.

The first run today was a psych transfer. My first run was a fall.

I'll go with zero here as well. I still stand by that an O2 tank and a BVM will better serve the public as a whole than naloxone will.

Overdose

Testing for the county just north of me for a PT gig in the morning, along with 3 other medics. Our protocols are pretty good, but they have levophed, nitro drips, TXA.......all the goodies we don't have. Rumor is they plan to hire all of us assuming we don't blow it.

Just wear a belt that will work as a tourniquet. Problem solved. Then you dont have to carry a kit around for the 0.2% chance you have at being involved in an active shooter situation.

Our protocol is up to 3.0mg total

Bleeding shock. I was an evaluator for AEMT Saturday and they had bleeding/shock as well. ETA: everyone at my test site had the same random