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Sounds interesting. I have been working on a Class for Fall Arrest Systems Trauma (Anotherwards suspension trauma) and how to deal with it. This sounds almost like that, becasue like suspension trauma where a person is stuck in a harness hanging. In this case the person was "hanging" upside...

Our Medical Director has us write ours in SOAP.....Not a fan of them at first, seems that I have to repeat myself many times, or that im not sure of where to put certain information about the pt. Though not a fan at first now, it is hard for me to write a report w/ out it. It started taking me...

Id say in response to which we use most, it has to be the long spine board. but each major trauma is different i feel and will never be able to be taught a hard and solid way because sometimes we have used a multitude of different immobilization devices. I liked the phtls course alot, learned...

how does putting tags on them make it faster for the sergants to check in the rigs? I work at an only ems..we use them only on drug kits....at the FD i work on we only use one on the narcs kit but we lock the thomas pack or jump bag in a locked cabinet.

We also interpret our own ecgs and 12 leads in the field, but the hospital doesn't always listen to us, or believe us so they would rather us send them in if we see signs of infarct or ischemia so that way they can send them to the cardiologist on call and improve the door to cath lab time.

How do you guys like transmitting with LP12? We are not hospital based, but our closest hospital that we always transport to just bought us a welch allyn to try the transmitting and it is one of the simplist things i have ever done.

what is MRL?

There may already be a thread involving this, but which kind of monitors do most use? Also which do you prefer? We currently use a Lifepak 12, but we are testing out new Welch Allyn Pic's