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One tourniquet in the jump bag. I also carry one of my own In my cargo pocket. We don't really have contracts with most of the nursing homes. They just call which ever company they want. I've showed up on scene with 2 other company's to pick up the same pt.

County hotel = jail with trained personnel inside in first aid. We cover 911 for the area the call came in from. We do have are own dispatch center trained to EMD. We also have no contact with county dispatch 911 goes to county, forwarded to an EMD, Then forwarded to our dispatch. The area that...

PD won't roll with us and the pt was unconscious from about 1-2 liters of blood loss from about 5 lacs to different artery's.

Not so much that FD wasn't assigned just the lack of info and kind of playing the system. Private company, contracted 911 provider for the area. Local FD is ALS non transport. FD goes on every medical. No contract for PD. If they arrive first and decide they want the call they can take over...

Ya that's what happened. But they didn't ask any questions on why we were responding or for what.

No the deputy was not the pt. He just meet us outside and directed us in.

Had a call today to respond priority to the county hotel for "unkown" (this is what came up on our tough book. No other updates through out the call.). Upon arrival. We were met by a very excited deputy saying that he tried to kill himself. The pt had multiple arterial bleeds and had lost a...

Not a billing issue from the stance of the original post. Most polices for billing are like that though. Atleast my company views it that way.

Thank you everyone for there feed back and comments. I just wanted to get some outside opinions and see what others thought. I would like to see a study done on back injuries related to inappropriate, unneeded or unwarranted stretcher use done in the feature.

Kind of long. For the last couple of days I've had this idea bouncing around in my head. Those that have been in EMS for awhile have seen changes based on research driven practices. (Just a few. Like not using L&S for a PT with a hang nail because there is no life threating medical issues...