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Or, to phrase it different, was there a paramedic/EMT/Manager who you wanted to emulate? In my case, I had 2. The first one was the Eastern Sector manager, everyone always said if they were dying on the side of the road, that's the guy they would want workin on them. He used to be an army...

lol'd at Urban Outdoorsmen.

First time I performed. CPR was with a bvm on my friends grandfather who had been down. 25 min before 911 was called. Family was all around and my friend wound up seeing her cyanosed grandad. It wasn't pleasant.

21yo female, sharp pain on left side of chest under her breast. Feels pain when drinking, otherwise pain comes and goes...if anyone knows what this could be, please let me know. Internet searches are yeilding no results.

I'm just thinking of the irony: his gf not wanting to be intimate and him ODing on Viagara...

Paramedics are called way back into redneck country to deliver a baby. The younger paramedic passes out when he sees the head crowning so the Senior man enlists the help of the woman's 5-year-old son, Ephrum. After delivering the baby and slapping it on the bottom, the Medic asks the boy...

What I'm saying, Sasha, is there was no abuse. If there had been abuse, I would have reported it, and I wouldn't have posted the story here.

I think we should probably agree to disagree on this one. I will admit that I didn't know the intent the doctor had, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt due to the pt's perceieved level of consciousness. If I knew for a fact it was abuse, I wouldn't have posted it.

The intent was to check for consciousness, because he very well could have been out like a light, he seemed rather unconscious and unresponsive to everyone in the room. I most certainly wouldn't have posted the story if the doctor had done it to abuse the patient. But like I said, the...

I've only ever seen a sternal rub done on a post-dictal frequent-flyer with a history of being uncooperative, abusive to paramedics, and oftened faked being unresponsive, so the doc used the rub to see if he was conscious or faking or not...End result, doctor almost got punched in the head.

Kinda looks like my District's EMS logo except with epic graphics.

+ The only action your 3/4-ton Utility/Fire Prevention truck sees is the Chief or DC using it for groceries or you using it to bring tables from the fire station to your family get-together. + Your Lieutenant has ever used the Tanker/Pumper to fill someone's pool. + Your tanker used to...

She's up against the steering wheel, if you have a come-along you could pull it back, otherwise you would be waiting for the fire department to arrive with the Jaws and Ram since hydraulics are required.

This is a secenerio that came up during extrication practice. You are on your way back to your base from a transfer along a stretch of highway that is not heavily travelled or populated when you are called to check out a reported car accident. , the nearest volunteer Fire Department with...

Abdo pad on the shotgun wound, 02, 12-Lead, quickclot (R), Load & Go, I wouldn't want to keep her on scene any longer than necessary. Transport Code 4 CTAS 1 to the nearest hospital, MediVac if possible. (Primary Care Paramedics, cannot intubate or do IV's)

I always liked the whole creating calm of chaos and watching people improve (well, unless they're circling the drain and probably not coming back) as you treat them. And, ofcourse the totally awesome feeling I got when the tones went off and we went to go help someone with the lights and...

First one is my own screw-up on the radio. "52XX Priority 8 (which I later learned meant standby) at XX/XYZ turnoff" (a place we had stood by many times before) Me: "Dispatch, 52XX is 10-8 Priority 8 to <mumbles> What the hell?" "10-4, 52XX, you're 10-8 to XX/XYZ" There was just...

Sure am glad I'm in Northern Ontario where the MOI is normal and wholesome.... That being said...There was a girl who got a polish sausage or Keilbassa (I forget which it is buddy told me) stuck inside her after it broke off.

Worked as a maintenance guy/groundskeeper at the local Golf Course, worked as a labourer at the recycling plant, currently working as a casual maintenance guy/handyman.

They liked me so much they tried to hook me up with one of our older, heavier, less aesthetically-please patients...And it almost worked. The pt called the base to ask if we had seen her keys, and at the same time D asked me "Ty, what's your cellphone number?" innocent enough. So I began...