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When you run a SIDS death and the infant beyond attempting resiscutation whats your school of thought. Tell the parents there is nothing you can do and let the parents attempt to wrap their head around it and say goodbye or grab the baby and run for the truck? I recently had a SIDS death.

Well I stated the journey last August by starting paramedic school. I never thought it would come but I finished class in July. I took a national reg prep class, in which, I'm going to say I learned more than my year of class time. Or at least more made sense. I took my practical exam the first...

How do you deal with lossing one of your own? Its a rough go right now...just wonder if anyone else has been there?

So I had my first Mega Code in the field as a Paramedic Student. It went picture perfect. We had just the right number of people. I got my intubation and even got ROSC back by the time we got to the hospital. I'm super excited. We'd ran several very serious calls that day including three codes...

Hey guys just checking in. I havent been around much. Seems working full time and Paramedic school occupies most of my time these days. Medic school is going well. How are all my fellow paramedic students doing? Oh yeah and I've met and wonderful guy doing clincals. He actually works at a...

1.) You watch a video in class and then have a dream of talking cells. 2.) You start looking at a persons veins when you meet them.....wishing you could poke the "pretty" ones. 3.) You always have drug cards in your hands. We have been covering cells this last week hard. I was...

Hey guys I'm looking for some ideas and you people seem to be full of them so here goes. A couple of my co-workers kinda had a traumatic even this week. They've been really down and I've been trying to think of lil goofy ways to bring their spirits back up. I'm a total goofy ball and i cant...

I just wanted to share with you guys. Last night I had my first prehospital delivery. Responded to a pt who possibly just had a baby. UOA found FD on scene with female and baby. Loaded her on the cot and my Medic handed me a slightly blue Baby boy. He did his thing with mom....i did my thing...

I am wanting to put together a DWI program to do for high school aged kids. I found the Every 15 Minutes program but it requires a lot of resources. Does anyone else have any programs geared toward kids 15-19 that would make an impact.

We have had alot of fatal car accidents lately. This is the part that sucks. A drunk driving traveling at high rate of speed hits a guard rail flips at least twice. Isnt wearing a seatbelt and lives. However a car of four girls, 16 and 14 yr olds traveling at the speed limit wearing seatbelts...

So has anyone here actually puked on scene before. I came really close last week. There are some moments i hate my job!:ph34r:

So I was in the ER the other night getting ready pick up a patient when another service brings in this guy. I look up from paperwork to see that he looks like a fine upstanding citizen and then go back to my ratkillin. next thing i know he is yelling at the doc....doc is yelling back. He informs...

you know it's going to be a bad shift when less than half way through you end up a patient in your own truck......UGH:sad:

So i've been in EMS about 14 months now. This week I my first child abuse call and actually now i've done two in 3 days. Both were extreme cases of child abuse. I realize that our job at times can be emotionally straining and No i'm not thinking about throwing in the towel I love what i do. I...

Has anyone had any problems with the Zoll Autopulse batteries?

Hello everyone, Just though I would introduce myself. I've been an EMT a little over a year now. I started out doing BLS transfers and Nursing home emergencies and moved to a ALS service that is fairly busy. I went to college to be a Police Officer and got my EMT after being called to a...