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Is it a contraindication to give a person that had dialysis recently fluids? For example we had someone who had high blood sugar. His lungs were clear and we figured we give him some fluids for his hyperglycemia. At the hospital once they learned that he had dialysis earlier in the day they told...

It seems hard. I can't even count a handful that I have worked well with. They all seems to be *****es and *****s. You have to always watch what your doing and saying. They are usually too weak..and if you try to help them they get offended. They think they know everything. It's ****ing...

So have you had a call where someone died or was dead..your best one..GO!

Anybody know if Airport or Air lines hire people with EMS back grounds like Paramedics and EMT's? Just curious. Getting a job on an airline or airport may allow me to transfer to another State easily.

Met any hot girls on the job? Girls you went out with or eventually had a relationship with..lasting or not? Met models...etc. Crazy bit#hes or great girls. Girl stories.

What was your best call dealing with a psychiatric patient?

What are some of the worse malpractices you have seen out in the field? It could even be accidents like rolling a patient on a stretcher down a hill.

Just wondering. At my place of work I noticed that we don't carry 50 ml of D5W, but we have 100 ml of D5W and 250 ml's. So if I had to use Amiodarone and wanted to hang a maintenance drip. Could I just mix 300mg of Amiodarone into the 100 ml of D5W or 600mg of Amiodarone into the 100 ml of D5W...

This maybe a silly questions for you Paramedics out there. Maybe I missed something in school but when you have a hypoglycemic patient BS: 29 unresponsive. You have I.V. access and begin to push D50 slowly. About halfway thru the D50 you see the patient responding, eyes are opening and the...

I have a State of Florida EMT and Paramedic license. What are states that only require a national license or can be challenged by the State of Florida license to work in? Just in case anybody happens to knows. Preferably in the West Coast.

I have a Florida State EMT-B and Paramedic license. I want to move to Washington State and continue working in the EMS field. My EMT National expired and I'm in the process of renewing. So what do I need to transfer over to Washington and work as a EMT and Paramedic? Someone gave me a website...