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where i'm from they have supplies for ems to restock in the ems room. Iv supplies, tubes, suctioning equipment, electrodes, and if its not there then all we usually have to do is ask for it.

think about this though. if you work for a volly station which fall under a regional dispatch center and you have to listen to a scanner then you only have to listen out for your tones. thats also how pagers are programmed they listen out for your stations tones and then alert you. if...

so does that mean that you hear whenever another station gets dispatched through the night and all. The main advantage to having a specific set of tones is that you don't have to listen to everyone else getting dispatched you only have to wait for your tones to drop.

As many have said, education is a must in our field and we should not be performing these "advanced" procedures without the knowledge of why to perform them, how they affect the body systems of the person they are being performed on and when to perform them. All I wanted to know was how much...

I was just intersted to see what the most advanced procedure you can perform in your area is? I know there are some pretty progressive EMS systems out there and then there are some not so progressive, like mine. So lets hear it, what the most advanced procedure that can be performed in your...

haha yea thats what i figured. but i was curious so i figured i would ask. and if superman could hear it...what do you think it would sound like? haha jk. Thanks for all the quick responses. -zman

Alright, so this may seem like a dumb question but i was kinda day dreaming the other day and was like--we can see how a AMI looks physically with patient presentation and electrically via the monitor. Although what i want to know, Is it possible to hear a MI if your listening through a...

Had my first ALS callon my own, since finishing class and taking all the tests. Called out for a pt. fallen. U/A found middle aged man incoherent responsive pretty much only to pain, lying on the ground. Bystanders said he kind of stumbled over the the bush and then lowered himself down in...

I was doing a refusal once and I told the guy to call back if anything changed. He looked at me and asked "whats your number." I looked at him, smiled and said "i can be reached at 911." -z

just wondering if some of you could post some websites that have intersting and useful medical information. I know that there is a lot of crap on the internet which is why i am posting here, because i figure you guys would know some site that are reputable and have good information on them...

If you want to get into the legality of it, i know that on the back of our PPCR's where the pt. would sign a refusal it explicitly states that the pt. is not under the influence of ANY drug or narcotic, and explicitly states alcohol as one of them. Now granted, we don't transport every ETOH pt...