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    My Ambulance

    closest 2 are ours (SJA0 furthest two are local NHS service ) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1087871&id=717056974 current newest toy until the mercedes Frontline ambulance arrives http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=717056974#/photo.php?pid=1087867&id=717056974
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    Disinfection of wounds

    OK folks , ridryder and ventmedic have talked a lot of sense in this thread topical ABx forget it if you want to stick anything in the wound stick some honey in ! or the shavings off a silver dollar ! because long before topical ABX - dressings containing honey or silver will be used...
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    Do I tell The Boss?

    more than a battery if it broke the skin, try 'wounding' , 'actual bodily harm ' etc etc etc... differnet places have different names for it ... yep i'd agree there HR and union rep probably not relevent given it's a college campus group , to the OP is this all volunteer and are both...
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    Our rigs........

    tyler the sprinter is the vehicle to have anywhere else in the civilised world - admittedly a lot of the European sprinters are 400 or 500 series and modular bodied
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    Reflective Vests on the Highway - 23 CFR 634

    there's serious problems with the EU market and en471 compliance from fire gear - most are wearing en471 class wwasitcoats over fire gear and fudge the risk assessment by counting the reflective o nthe fire gear to up the fire gear + HV to class 3 standards
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    Teachers Administer Glucagon, Why Can't You?

    exactly EMS drug protocols are for 'unknown' patients these protocols are for a number of known patients whose own doctor ( whether the family doc or an endocrinologist if we are talking glucagon) has prescribed the med - here is the Direction to adminster - the training is aobut giving...
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    Teachers Administer Glucagon, Why Can't You?

    there is an existing PATIENT SPECIFIC direction to administer it's no different helping grandma take her prescribed meds or giving prescribed meds to a toddler you are babysitting for. the direction to adminster the medication exists becasue the med has been prescribed for the patient...
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    Teachers Administer Glucagon, Why Can't You?

    there is a however a patient specific direction for each of the students they may have to adminster it to - becasue it's for their known DM student population - the 'medical control' is the family doctor or endocrinologist who prescribes the student's meds ... certainly from a right...
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    driver vs attendant

    rid in terms of the division of labour on scene and deciding who drives and who is in the back with the patient what terminology do you suggest?
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