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You have a call to a pt. who fell and presents with obviouse hip deformity. What have you found to be the best method to use in stabilizing the hip?

We had a 12 year old boy hang himself with his shoestrings over the weekend. Although the call was in another town, it was a student I work with during my day job at school. The student was in a classroom for students with emotional issues but was such a sweet kid. How do you go about...

Does anybody else have an issue with nursing homes moving a pt. that has fallen? Our communities nursing home is notorious for taking a patient that has fallen with obvious injury and moving them back into bed. I guess they have never heard of C-spine! We always make sure that we document...

Does anyone else have crew members that just irritate you? I went on a run this past weekend for an unresponsive male. There were only EMT-B's on so we asked central to dispatch an intermediate. When the third basic showed up at the station (we don't stay at the stations as we are a small...

I am new to this site. I just passed my EMT-B registry about 3 hrs. ago. Seriously! I do tech work for the school districts in our county so being an EMT is a bit of a change of pace.