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    Boots

    Hello Everyone, I personally prefer the Matterhorn CrossTech Fabric Waterproof Leather & Nylon boots. As the only female member of my agency which is a Air Ambulance service based out of a Regional Trauma center the need for the body fluid barrier is important. This boot is lighter than some...
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    Decline in Volunteers a Nationwide Trend

    Hello Everyone, We had a simular issue here in Upstate NY and some agencies were hit by this trend and some agencies weren't affected or not to the same extent as others. What we've done more and more over the last almost 20yrs I've been in this service was to really get out in the community...
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    911 Operator Falls Asleep During Call

    Hello Everyone, Yeah I had read this story it was kinda bizzare for a Dispatcher to fall asleep during a call. Even if there were medical reasons involved I find it highly unlike he was the only dispatcher on and a co-worker should have taken over the call or taken over before the call if...
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    EMT-I

    I only experience the Maryland EMS system in the early 1990's and things do change but at least the web site had the information you needed. I benefit big time from their system though because Maryland didn't have an exact fit for me for reciprocity from NY as a CCT so they did let me as an RN...
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    Predictions

    This is a hard to find site - I got tired of not chatting with different people since leaving AOL for Road Runner that I just google searched for: Emergency Medical chat and got about a thousand hits this site was down toward the bottom but seem the best. The one that was super-imposed with...
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    Rescue Me

    I've seen the show the past two weeks and they have been very on base on many topics. Its not been the soap opera feel of Third Watch and the one before that forgot the title with Noah Wiley. Dennis Leary was the perfect choice to play the role in Rescue Me. He started a fund for fire fighters...
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    EMT-I

    I am not from Maryland but as a tenager venturing to college I attended UMBC Univeristy of Maryland at Baltimore County. Which has a very good Emergency Health Sciences tract essentially the college degree for people looking for a career in EMS or the Fire Service. I'd definitely refer you to...
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    12 Lead EKG?

    Fire Chic I also love the Life Pack 12 well until you have to carry the darn thing to the 14 floor on an 90 degree August day when the elevator stops working...lol We are a tiered agency and we have a paid ALS crew on from 6am -6pm and 6pm -6am we are a volunteer agency. We allow EMT-B to be...
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