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Lift test: The backboard is hinged in the air on one side (to simulate your partner). The other end is on the floor. Pick up the backboard (which will have weights on it) from ground level and place it on a box that will be like 4 ft tall. Its so easy a cavman could do it. Seriously it is very...

Thank you Witter and Anthiny. Tornwingedangel: Dont get discouraged, hang in there and it will be over before you know it. And most importantly GOOD LUCK!

I am personally a big fan of IN

My NREMT I test cut off at 85 and NREMT Paramedic cut off at 150. I passed both on the first try.

absolutely dislike the spring loaded caths

I am not employed with acadian however, they run EMS for my fire dept. I also have many friends that work there. I believe they still do a physical agility, it is very simple, but they do have one.

Fall I had a pt with one after he fell from approx 45 ft. He had all of the s/s of one. We darted him and pt cond improved.

10 months of terror and not fun times has finally paid off. I AM NOW A PARAMEDIC! Im stoked!

HI i did figure out how to accept the friendship. I have been busy in paramedic school sorry it has takenme a month to respond to your visitor meesage. How are you?

Thank you for the comment. :)

You sent me a message quite some time ago and I apologize for the late response. How do i accept your friend request?

So evidently not everyone takes EVOC!

wow. just wow

common sense isn't common anymore.

The 5.11 job shirts with the denim is very fade resistant. The Denim is dark navy any sturdy. This is what my department uses. However, use the input of the crews to determine a uniform suitable for your department.

Recently i was selected to take part in a rider program put on by our local aeromedical transport system. They are the air transport system for alot of south Texas. They run something along the lines of 3000 "Missions" per year. Well after getting all excited about the great posibility of...

8) And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being "paws up," ART (assuming room temperature), CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), DRT (dead right there) or NLPR (no long playing records). HAHAHAHAHA! cancel Christmas thats awesome!

Thats awesome! And so very true!

We carry the EZIO for adults and the manual IO for peds. Our protocol states that we may use the IO after two unsucessful peripheral IV attempts or in cardiac arrest. Also once they are in, they stay in. The ER has to remove them.

okay I have a funny story regarding cooking in a firestation. So one night my captain and I decided to raid the refridgerator for a midnight snack. We found some chicken fingers that were left over from the fast food establishment we had visited earlier that day. My capt. tells me to put them in...