Then your state is like us,if your NREMT has expired then your state license is no good.Contact the nremt to find out what you'll have to do to get re-registered with them and then get with the state after you've gotten your NR back.
Well yea concious pts but this one was unresponsive with his head tilted down,no way he was doing any good with that bvm.Sorry should have made it clear in the post.
I watched it,thought it was ok.It wasn't very realistic thou.............along with everything else mentioned above I noticed them bagging a pt while he was sitting up!I'll tune in a few more times and give it a chance but they really need to get some input from a real medic.
Since I live and work in south-east Louisiana I got to see FEMA in,and I use the term VERY loosely,"action" during Katrina............completely,utterly and totally worthless.These people who are supposedly trained to act during exactly this type of crisis and were not only ineffective but...
That's what I was thinking.I haven't seen anything on the boards that would cause any upset,did someone pm you and cause you offense?
Anyway,have you tried talking directly to the service and asking them what exactly happened?I would get someone on the phone and try to pin them down on...
You are trying to marginalize all those basics and first responders out there who have saved THOUSANDS of lives on their own with NO help from a paragod like yourself(myself included both as a FR and a Basic) and that's just not right.You don't want anything taken from you so how about not...
Every paramedic I've seen with an ego like yours had absolutely lousy patient rapport which,IMO,is very important in our field.
If you aren't getting any respect it's probably because your not giving any.
Just how much field experience have you had anyway?From the EDITED statements in your...
If anyone in a POV dressed in plain clothes tried to start an IV on me and I was concious I'd tell them to get the F*** away from me.
I think a standard BLS bag is all any one needs off-duty no matter what level of training.I do carry an O2 kit that is provided and mantained by my dept...
Our chief and a lot of the people in the dept are ex-military so everyone with ems training,from 1st responders to paramedics,are usually called "medics" around here.A lot of the people we take care of also seem to use the term medic or emt no matter the level training.Personally I(an EMT)answer...
Wow first shooting in 3 years?I guess from watching too much tv I'm thinking there would be running gun battles all over LA county every day.Ever since Katrina it seems we can't go 3 months without a gsw,usually the fatal kind,and we're out in the sticks 65 miles from New Orleans.
Last one I...