Just wondering if any of you have any New Year's superstitions that you follow each year? Mine:
1.Christmas tree must be down before midnight and all calanders must be off the wall(don't put the new ones up until the new year)..........signifies not bringing the old year into the new.
2.Set...
Don't know if any of you watched ER last night, but I've got a question about it..........during the episode they we're doing cpr on a pt and apparently they were doing it well enough to get enough O2 to the brain and the pt became and remained A & O while they were still doing cpr.......they...
Any good tips or tricks for taking good, acurate VS while BOUNCING around in the back of a rig???? I find this to be one of the hardest parts of the job...............
Do you feel like society is forcing Christmas on us earlier and earlier? A radio station here started playing 100% Christmas music the day after Halloween and the stores were already putting up Christmas stuff BEFORE Halloween!!! Seems to me that the meaning has been lost to selling...
My actual paper license from the state arrived in the mail on 11-1 which also happened to be my 1st scheduled shift. My very first call of the night, I started as driver and got a priorty 1 call for chest pain. Lights and sirens! What a rush!!!
The call turned out to be a guy all doped up on...
I've noticed that under my avatar it says "forum probie" and that under other members the label changes..........is that something I can do or is it done by the moderators?
Looking for new or seasoned emts/medics in the metro Detroit area (or willing to relocate) to join the company that I work for. We're getting 3 new hospital accounts within the next month and we will be SLAMMED!! Honestly, I don't mind the overtime, but this is a little nuts!!! :blink:
PM me...
A question, even though to some, maybe a dumb one............hospitals use the automatic bp, pulse, & pulse ox machine (nurse on a stick), why hasn't that become a piece of equipment on an ambulance?? Our rigs have GPS and all the lastest technology.........
I want to apologize for being a B**** last night!! A little "domestic dispuit" got the best of me and I totally mis-read alot of replies, causing me to lash out at you all. It was none of your faults and I shouldn't have taken it out on you guys.
I promise to be a good newbie if ya'll still let...
Taken from my local news:
The director of the federal National Hurricane Center said to expect more hurricanes, large and small, in the next 10 to 20 years.
Max Mayfield told a congressional panel Tuesday that he believes the Atlantic Ocean is in a cycle of increased hurricane activity that...
Another newbie from MI here! I work for a brand new private ambulance company that just opened in southeast MI. These guys are great..........the put me through their EMT BOOTCAMP and PAID me while I was in their class! I just took the nremt-b/state exam on fri 9-16 and can't wait to hit the...