I wish the company i worked for would ban them. my partner relys on his way too much, i usually refer to it as his "pacifier".
a full 16 shifts with a DTO to learn the city and you still have to have a GPS in the windshield to find your way around. hell, im sure he spends about 10% of his...
how many miles would you have to drive to "drive off" the points you get on the road safety computer, if you mashed the brakes on something like that. 25 points per second of high tone here. 1 point removed per 7 miles driven without tones. i would have done the same thing this LEO did.
even if they didnt really show my face. im standing in front of the monitor, right next to the CPR seat.
I was also driving when responding to this call.
http://www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=267712
use toughbooks with LIFENET ems software. print with laserjets at the hospitals. also have a fax option, you have to be connected to the truck gateway, which sends the chart to the station fax, then to the hospital (if they dont have a printer)
he wasnt getting arrested for attempt suicide. cops got called out for a "peeping tom" apparantly he was "looking over fences" in the neighborhood. cant no one take a quite walk around there anymore????
usually calls/runs happening coincides with me reclining the seat in the ambulance. i can sleep in the thing all day long, as long as i dont recline my seat. the second you touch that lever, off you go. and its usually BS.
we have them on our trucks. they arent in any bags we take with us. just have their own box in a compartment. i havent gotten to use them on a patient yet. i have used them on a maniquen though.
my company provided me a duty gear bag. fits in my front seat. i usually bring the obligatory stuff on me. scissors, cell phone, pen, uniform. in my gear bag is my GPS, extra pens, dig. camera, personal meds. i usually take my bag wherever i go. it goes from my apt. to the car in the morning...
FT Field medic with 911 service. PT work on the lake. I drive a tow boat for Seatow, and i also Captain a 50' party barge and babysit drunks during the summer, pays decent, and i get a great tan.
I just asked my partner, he says t-top's and spinners.
i dont know that i would want anything on my ambulance. i think it would be more convienent if there were MORE units on shift, so i didnt have to run as many calls.
heard a P1 gunshot go out over the radio. the crew responding immediatly requested air medical on standby due to the location, and distance to the ED. dispatch advises crew to meet a call taker on a backup channel. i switch over to hear the conversation. call taker advises the crew that the gun...
I'm with Jon on this one. during daytime hours, The siren is on during the entire response. early morning when it is still dark, the siren is on while im traveling main roads and highways, but i try to turn it off when in neighborhoods. if im traveling lights/no siren, i'll usually drive slower...