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IDK if anyone here has seen the movie Skidmarks (really bad btw), but they have two ambulance companies which I could see forming in my area: BALS - Bay Area Life Support, and DIC - Downtown Intensive Care

I just took the homeland security course for medical preparedness and response to bombing and those instructors HIGHLY suggested the use of tourniquets even in situations where it may be able to control bleeding with direct pressure. According to them if you have to ask yourself whether you can...

Well to me it all depends on where you are. When we're at the station or alone in the rig we joke around and do some pretty "immature" stuff but never reckless. The second we're with a patient it's nothing but professionalism, sometimes we'll try to get some humor out of the situation but only...

The hospitals by us actually have clean linens & a towel saran wrapped for us, we just have to put em on the stretcher, pretty self explanatory. One of the things that annoys me is when crews call in saying "Headquarters XXX, you can put us on with a crew until XX:00 hours". I always say I...

I'm actually not sure myself, I usually just use the larger side... i was told the smaller side was for pediatrics but now I'm pretty sure that's BS. Sorry I couldn't be more help, I'm sure a quick google search could answer that.

Thanks for the feedback, I guess our best bet is to try like Kinkos because we want pads for the entire squad.

I'm trying to get a hold of some patient assessment pads for my volunteer agency. I've seen other units (especially medics) use them. They're basically pocket size pads (not the waterproof, reusable kinds) that have most of the same fields as regular run sheets, but 1/3 the size with about 50...