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I'm sure I'm about to be a not so popular guy here. As someone who operates within a fire based system I'm trying to figure out where you work where you've got a battalion, engine, and truck showing up on a medical call. Cardiac arrest: engine and medic. Fall: engine and medic. Chest pain...

Who said you take it out? I know guys that will and guys that wont. The ones that wont usually tie it to the side and then drop in another.

I didn't even mean to quote your post. My fault. I'm still new to this forum. :(

"County show engine 1 on scene we've got a 1000 sq foot chicken coop fully involved show engine 1 out on fire attack." "Engine 1 has chicken coop command." County laughing over the radio " received chicken coop command." Mutual aid engine for water. "We're bringin the tater salad so make sure...

I too am going with sepsis. IV access two if possible and get the fluids goin. I'm leaning hard towards RSI with the information presented. You've got a 2 year old that's breathing 40 times a minute and their sats are at 89%.... How much longer can this kid keep that up? I'd rather intubate...

Station wear is - Nomex pants and a polo. I carry a benchmade triage knife and a pen in my polo sleeve pocket. Bunker pants - left pocket is a channellock the rescue tool (89 version.) 25 feet of webbing. left pocket 50 feet of rescue rope attached to a carabiner, golf ball, and a couple bucks...

In North Texas they don't very often. PM me and we can talk.

Our Kings got taken away in our system as with many systems in our area. We have the good ole ET or an I-gel...... My advice is don't miss because the I-gel is garbage. We've got a pretty agressive RSI protocol and track record here just because of transport times and the nature of calls we...

I will give them props in they made a decision and stuck with it. Right, wrong, or indifferent making a decision is something for a lot of people that is extremely hard to do. I gave my two cents above but instead of focusing just on the things done wrong I wanted to give you props on...

Any update?

This is tricky because of the change of mental status so quickly back to A&OX4. I'd lean more towards TIA. Calling for an ALS ambulance I feel is the right decision because it could of been something as simple as little heat exhaustion or something as serious as you mentioned earlier, a...

Oh and I'd be doing a 12 lead in the house or facility, wherever I was at. I've had an asymptomatic 3rd degree heart block with a chief complaint of I don't feel right. It's something that will take 15 seconds to apply and run which could help you better prepare for what could go wrong. As...

I must say I always enjoy your responses. You're one smart tater tot!

I've slacked. I haven't seen the station since this morning. I'm actually tying this from the Medic lol. I'll try my best to get those strips up.

We try. We don't have a community paramedic but with two stations and building our third we're able to reach out a bit more than some systems. We only cover 40,000 people so once that goes up hopefully we can continue doing what we're doing. I'll get those strips and a copy of the manufactures...

He doesn't pay for it. We keep it on file that way we're not behind the 8 ball. If he has a follow up appointment he brings us a copy from his doctor as well. Yes we do. When he got it the manufacturer sent a DVD with specific resuscitation guidelines as well as treatment guidelines. None of...

We've got a guy in our district with one. I've got some 12 leads I'll snag from the station and scan in. I remember low limb lead voltage and a ventricular abnormality. We have to to an EKG on him every 2 months and keep them on file so that we can see any subtle changes that may appear if we...

We carry benzoin, razors, and degree deodorant.

It's really dependent on which county. From a buddy that works at allegiance "Haha they act like we do a lot of CCT but 3/4 of our boxes don't have vents or pumps." In Denton and Collin county the majority are run by Sacred Cross who I work for part time and Acadian (spelling?). Dallas is AMR...

In North Texas its spread among like 4 different companies.