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It's official! Apparently work is a disease. Fortunatly our government has come up with a cure.

It was semi quiet in the ER yesterday. One of the ERPs and I were talking and she produces this 12 lead. "Here " she says to my partner and I. "Read this and tell me what you think". The story with it a crew got a call for a seizure. 45m, somewhat large and obese, who woke up on the floor and...

See thread in employment section.

I noticed today that Ambulance New Brunswick has posted openings for about 50 full time Primary Care Paramedic jobs all over the province. http://www.ambulancenb.ca/en-us/careers/Pages/jobs.aspx This will mostly be of interest to other Canadians who are looking for jobs and are willing to...

Well I had my inservice on Fri for field thrombolysis for STEMI. Our area is going with it on March 1st. I feel it is a big step forward for us and I'm curious as to what others think about field thrombolysis. So my questions are: 1) How many of you have thrombolysis in your standard of...

Just kind of wondering how many services are implementing changes to go along with the new CPR/Arrest guidelines. How do they update you? Do you just get a letter or e-mail with your new changes. Or do the plan a day or two to present the new material to you. Here we go for a day or two...

Dr. Ross is a 20+ year ER Dr. Last year he was tasked with reviewing and recommending how ERs can be kept open and made to work better in Nova Scotia. Since the problems that affect health care and ERs are not unique to here I thought some of you might be interested in his thoughts on how to fix...

While doing a clinical shift in the ER the other day, a nurse brought down a pt with an IV catheter broken off in his vein. Apparently as she was removing the needle part, the end (where you attach the line), broke off. This of course left the cath part free to travel in the vein. She immediatly...

This was just on the evening news here. Earlier today an ambluance went off the road. The patient was killed and the paramedic driving was airlifted to hosp. The attending medic was taken by ground. It was during a routine transfer from our main provincial specialty hosp to the pts home hosp...

Finally, I can see daylight at the end of a very long tunnel. I think I may have mentioned it a while ago that I'm taking a distance course to get my ACP tag. I've been picking away at it for 18 months now and finally have all my tests, exams, labs and scenarios done. OR about 1000 hours into...

I don't quite get it. If your EMT-B is a minimun 110 hrs long and I gather most are under 160hrs. Why are so many dragged out for months and semesters? I can understand to a point that some people want to take a night course and keep their day job. But it seems that many who post here want full...

If there were no EMT-B certification as a starting point. Would you still try to get into EMS. Here in Canada we have Primary Care Paramedic, (PCP), as our BLS level on ambulances. It is about a 1500 hour course with about 800 hours didactic/lab, 200 hours of hospital clinical and 500...

I missed being called to this collision as I had switched shifts with a buddy at work. Apparently a car and van collided and killed the woman in the car. As I understand it the car was making a left turn accross traffic to access an emergency vehicle crossover between the divided lanes of the...

Here is a thought. The other day the police dive team fished a body out of the river. The person had fallen through the ice some 20 - 30 hours before. He was put in a body bag and uncharacteristically taken by our service to the hospital. Apparently the provincial ME didn't want him pronounced...