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    Essentials of Paramedic Care Update (2nd Edition)

    Im looking for Brady's essentials of paramedic care the updated 2nd edition. If one has one laying around. Thanks!
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    Super Size Me: The EMS Diet

    Its great around here during the summer/fall months we get fresh fruit since two of emts (married) own an orchard. so something new every week. on the other hand another emt owns a candy store..... yea not so healthy plus we share a parking lot with one of the better fast food places around...
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    Strangest calls?

    Responded to a mid 30's female pt with chest pain. walked into a small room to find a close to morbidly obses pt sitting in a chair. She said she was having chest pain but then stated she didnt want to go to the ER (to my relief because i didnt think the two of us were going to be able to lift...
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    Dumbest thing heard on the radio

    its 0200 and getting back from a 140 mile round trip transport----- me: "Unit 805 to Fire Control" Dispatch: "Fire Control" Me: "805 will be back in service and going to bed" Dispatch: "805 back in service..... stand by for page" Me: mentally thinking "youve got to be kidding me" Dispatch...
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    Sing-along with your pt. (funny) :)

    I had a pt that we were doing a 70 mile interfacility transport with, who, out of the blue decided to sing to me Zip-a-dee do da Zip-a-day My oh my what a wonderful day.... he knew the entire song and we sang it over and over it agian. I have yet to have a pt quite that entertaining. He also...
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    Worst names for an ambulance service...

    We are the Stevens County Sheriff's Ambulance. I get asked A LOT if we only transport prisoners.............
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    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of... What?

    my favorite thing is getting paged out at about 0100 to a nursing home for lets say... difficulty breathing... arrive on scene, get your gear out ready to head in and a staff member comes out and informs you that the pt has already left.... did you not think to inform dispatch that we were no...
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    con artists

    A few months back when I was still a "trainee" my partners and I were paged for a elderly female who had fainted in a local 24hr grocery store. Law enforcement of course was on scene due to the fact it was about midnight and they were bored..... Anyways we get there and the pt is laying on the...
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    Top 10 reasons why I became an EMT.

    Funny story to how I became an EMT...... First off my dad is a Firefighter so I became one.... My ex's mom is an EMT for our amb and his dad a cop for our county. She was always saying how I should become an EMT and after I went through my fire training my asst. Chief was encouraging me as...
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    Story of missing girl in Stevens County

    Its amazing how the whole county pulled together and found her! what an amazing community we live in!
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    Rodeo

    actually i have heard of the Gay rodeo association... i think the one i heard of was up in Canada tho.. I didnt know the states had one... good to know! im kinda glad we dont have one up here!
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    Funny one liners you've said to overheard to a patient

    One day responding in a neighboring town (we cover half of our county up to the canadian border) for trying to commit suicide via pills. Pt was alert but AOB one of the city officers were on scene as well.we loaded our pt (who had problems walking down three steps on the front porch mind you) on...
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    EMT-B Students!!!

    Well here goes.... Im taking the EMT-B national test tomarrow at noon.... should be interesting. Im the first one out of my class to take it and I'll be the first one to be taking the test at this new testing sight too... So it looks like i'll be the guinea pig...
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    EMT-B Students!!!

    I just finished the EMT-B class the begining of march and now I'm stuck waiting to take the national test because washington state switched over from a state test to the national test and none of our instrutors or program directors know what's goin on. I belive I'll be the first to take the test...
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    Things left behind.....

    my locker in the FD sits right next to the engine so in a hurry i laid my keys on the side jumped in and took off..... about 6 months later the post office found them and realized who's they were... dumb luck
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    Radios and pagers going off in public

    for our ambulance and FD we have a channel called "push to listen" it vibrates when a call goes out and you can leave where ever you are and then replay the call i use that when im at work or in class....
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