Hi everyone!
I need some help!
My dad and me would like to go to the US to do some drive alongs with an ambulance service. My dad once did that in the early 90's at the former EMS service in New York. Now it's my turn:p, he want's to come along though. Now, we would like to do this somewhere...
I am Thom, I'm from Belgium and I live in the city Dendermonde. I work in my dad's private ambulance service, we provide emergency care in our region, intensive care transports (micu) non-urgent transports, wheelchair transports,... I became an "ambulancier" (similar to te emt-b level) at 18...
For those calls where I can make difference..
Oh and probably because it's in my blood.. The first word I could say was "TUTA", so when I heard a sirene it went like "oh tuta". (ref. My dad own's a private ambulance service)
Hi joy,, I graduated last week.. So I am officialy a nurse now.. It doesn't end with this though, I'm taking an extra year to earn a bachelor after bachelor in emergency and intensive care.. Looking forward to that..
I agree with joy.. Happens a lot here too.. When able a patiënt can walk to the ambulance by himself, I can not really see the point in getting every patiënt into the ambulance by stretcher.
Hi to all fellow collegues all over the world. Thought it would be fun to start a thread.
All over the world there are different EMS systems.. In the USA there's the emt-B/paramedic system, here in belgium poorly trained ambulance-personnel with ALS back up from a medical team (ER doc + Nurse...
We use LP 12 and have an HP monitor as backup. The HP monitor doesn't has a 12 lead ECG and no defib, it just monitors:). The LP12 is such a great device to work with, you got everything in hand and it's so easy to use.
We have LP12 and HP monitors.. We use the automatic cuffs most off the time and my experience is that they are pretty accurate. But on bumpy rides it's useless and my biggest point of ignorance is that most of the time it takes forever to take bp. So I'm thinking about taking a stethoscoop and...
In belgium....
In belgium you may only drive 30km/h faster (code 3) then the allowed speed. When you get caught on a speeding camera driving 90km/h when you may only drive 50km/h you get a ticket. At traffic lights we have to slow down and almost stop. The speeding camera's at traffic lights...