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Called yesterday for a 49 y/o PNB. Patient history reveals diagnosis of colon cancer in July, patient has been receiving chemo with good results, doctors predicting full recovery. Yesterday patients spouse wanted to take off work to spend the day with pt, pt kept telling spouse to go to work but...

Anyone with experience working race events have you found a practical way to extricate a patient yet? Back story, we got called out to the racetrack the other night (we staff 1 non transport rig at the track and call in for transport) to transport a patient from a high speed crash that felt...

Just doing a little reading tonight and I stumbled upon a device called the Airtraq. Wondering if anyone here has had a chance to try them out yet and what's your personal experiences with it? I can't find anywhere that lists a price but it seems pretty technologically advanced for a...

We are currently in the pharmacology phase of our class and our course books didn't include any drug reference book. What books to you guys prefer? I'm looking for something that will give me the drug profile, generic and trade names, intended effects, indications, contraindications, dose, the...

This article was posted last week, haven't seen any discussion of it here. **link removed** Orlando, FL -- Speaking at the 34th Annual ClinCon Conference at The Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, FL, on Friday, July 11, Florida-based EMS Medical Director Dr. Mary Ann Kolar astounded physicians and...

The more I learn about my local ambulance service the more I see that they seem to be very progressive. Just wondering what progressive methods or whatever you want to call it some other services are running so post up what you've got. Two that come to mind for my service is the ability of...

I'm new here, just started paramedic classes a couple weeks ago and had a question for all the medics here regarding pain scale. We always learned 1-10 until now when the teacher says he will literally kick us if he hears us use that. He says now that we have pain meds at our disposal we are...