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My department is looking at getting a new mid-fidelity simulation manikin, Naturally, it needs to be capable of all the ALS stuff, but a big concern is durability. Is there anything that anyone is familiar with that they have used and liked? Thanks!

I fell in love with EMS when I first started. I loved being in the ambulance, being independent in the field, making life or death decisions and feeling like I accomplished something, Now, Nurses look down at me. Doctors look down at me, All I am is medical transport. A taxi 80% of the time...

Hey guys, So I took a hybrid critical care course that ended last January. My boss was not able to get funding to allow us to take the exam until recently, we haven't set an exam date yet but I will need to complete it before the end of the year I imagine. I was thinking about springing for...

Hey All, So I'm writing a paper for a college class with the intention of comparing and contrasting Fire based EMS systems vs Standalone systems and need to get some peer reviewed papers to include as part of my paper. I've done a little digging and haven't been able to come up with a ton of...

I swear there use to be a page that had recordings of calls that EMS made to medical control from denver metro with an analysis of the call and the interaction of EMS with their medical control. Does anyone know where I can find this?

How do you guys handle these calls? such as Intoxicated individual, able to walk but with an unsteady gait, slurred speech. Definitely drunk unknown number of drinks, bystanders report that he was in a fight where he was kicked in the head repeatedly noted to have a 2cm laceration to the front...

Went on a call recently that made me start thinking about treating patients with renal failure. How would you guys treat a renal failure pt with sepsis and or hyperglycemia? I had not even encountered this before, my initial thoughts would be to treat hypo-tension secondary to sepsis with...