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We like it well enough. Any reported CPR call we'll bring it in with the rest of our bags, and if we have a call that turns into one, if we can spare a guy (which since we usually run 4-person crews, we can have the Engineer go) grab it from the truck.

We're getting new AEDs. Switching from our older Philips Heartstart FR3 to Physio Lifepak CR2. I guess Philips is transitioning support away to the newer FRX, which our Medical Director thinks is "too basic", and the Physio is sold as being able to plug and play with our EMS' LP monitors and...

Huh, this is the first I'm hearing about it. No one at HFD has said anything, and hadn't heard anything thru the grapevine with the regular EMS crews we see on calls *shrugs* So no idea if this was a regular ambulance crew or a Rapid Response (SUV, often with a single medic) or other But I can...

That awkward moment when you're chilling in your apartment, and get the Pulse Point "CPR Needed!" Alert.... at the hospital a block or two away... I sure hope their Code Blue plan isn't for someone to drive down, find some parking, figure where Ste 6xx is, just to get to Pt side....

Because as an EMT, even if you're only talking about a private IFT company, you're still asking State A to certify you to be placed in a position of power/trust over vulnerable people. Authorities generally don't like granting that trust to people that have a history of abusing that trust to the...

News: Captures a "cool guy" pic of our crew in full gear walking out of the 3 alarm house fire the other day Also the News: Captures the "not so cool guy" pic of my hair cowlicking all over the place after getting said gear (mask and helmet off)

When you're doing the mandatory Vector Solutions online training modules and you recognize one of your agencies ambulances in the slide lol

According to our EMS Dept, they ran just over 9400 calls with 5300 transports for January. With 23 ambulances, thats like 13-14 calls a day for each unit based on my napkin math

Apparently the French need to watch more of Badge 502..... "In 2022, doctors were left shell-shocked after an 88-year-old Frenchman arrived at a hospital with a World War I bomb stuck in his bottom."

One time while we had the cab tilted on our Engine, I had my Yeti 30oz tumbler sitting on the side running board, apparently just a little too close to the edge, as when I lowered the cab, it caught the edge, and well, the hydraulics won that battle rather decisively....

Hey now, we get along just fine with Point and Grunt It's actually Japanese, you know, something nice and easy and straightforward, and not some crazy complicated 3 different alphabets language or anything

Post dinner breakdown/clean up done, showered, laying in bed, start my Duolingo lesson, which was a more involved "Story" vs the normal ones. I had a nice 30min bonus XP saved up from a previous challenge I had saved up to use with it to... So of course we catch a call halfway through, medical...

We could also ask why so many feel comfortable with a non-EMT/Paramedic with little to no experience running ambulances are routinely put in charge of one of the largest/busiest EMS Departments in the country... not like she's going Interior taking tactical command of crews while pulling a...

That awkward moment when they ask for any Doctors or Nurses on your flight... they even asked if anyone had any Ativan or Benzodiazepine... Luckily we were still on the taxiway so we returned to the gate and ARFF/Medical was there pretty quick

Def didn't need Dr House to see that clue, or to be sure it wasn't Lupus

You could say that... don't think it helped that his discharge paperwork (from earlier in the day) said he had a lung infection

Yikes, I thought our finger pulse ox was malfunctioning when it read 45%... and then EMS' Zoll also read <50% even on BiPap 😳

Happy Thanksgiving y'all! 🦃🥮

I suppose one of these days, I should get around to completing an Associates...

Wellp, that's one hospital that's not going to be skipping the "Is there any possibility you may be pregnant?" question for just about evvveerrryyyybody no matter how old or young (prob even guys too) for quite a while...