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Here's one for you guys, Report of 46 y/o Male c/o chest tightness and muscular feeling pain between shoulder blades, sudden onset. Pt reports "feels like heart is racing," and has been for approximately 45 minutes since they climbed 20 stairs up from their garage. BLS observes non-obese...

King County Medic One Paramedic Intern No Contact Info for KCMO posted (see below for application process) http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/ems/MedicOne/careers.aspx To be eligible for this testing cycle, you must complete the written exams with Public Safety Testing by March 31...

Alright, who's getting pumped up for snow, and doing their refresher/recertification training... Does anyone have snow yet? :D

Ok, let's just say that you have a unaccompanied minor in non-life threatening severe pain, and an inability to contact any parent/guardian. Transport to definitive care is in excess of 30 minutes, and you don't have an ambulance at hand, but you can request one within 10 minutes. Now because...

They must of doctored their numbers, not sure how they did it this time.... ;) COVINGTON, Wash -- A Covington teenager suffered a heart attack in the woods last Monday. His friends, using CPR and some quick thinking, saved his life. Brandon Hooper collapsed near Greenwater on Monday, and...

Has anyone had any experience with a short acting (<2hrs) psychosis inducing street drug, that does not present with observerable halucinations, and the patient can experience pain, but does not pain from taser application? Patient goes from non-aggressive/delusional to...

Hey, wondering if any of you have any links to podcasts covering TBI, especially antero/retrograde amnesia, after/during evaluation of suspected concussion. I've seen quite a few of these, so many that we call it the control-alt-delete syndrome... I'm interested in more specifically the...

Okay, so I've found myself in the interesting position of creating a module and training for CISD, now I don't think that corporate or the insurance company would subscribe to my "bottle of Jack" decompression theory, I'm interested in what worked for other departments and organizations. Go...

So, who was/is down in Texas for this or is here for the recovery effort?

Okay, who works ski patrol, and where do you work? What's your level of training, and status?

Okay, as we can see, this forum "Health and Fitness" is always a popular posting site for the Medics and EMTs.... :P So long story short, this year I decided that I was spending too much time in the weight room, not enough time doing cardio (f'n hate cardio...). That being said, I took the...

EMS, well, I guess it's one way to transport.... http://www.firefightingnews.com/articleFB-US.cfm?articleID=27875

Wow, how quickly I forget the emo crap that happened when I used to push a rig.... So, there I was, 0530 on my way to work (working in SEA now, just incase you were wondering), complaining about life, feeling glad it was Friday, just having dropped the kids off a the ex-wife's house, just got...

Here's what it looks like And here's what it looks like on my right calf

Wow, I'm finally free, actually I have stepped off the rigs with over 1500 patient contacts in 15 months. I think burnout is an understatement. While patient care never suffered, I can't say that I was the most patient partner, combined with my perfectionist attitude, I think I was a less than...

I just have to share this with everyone, I've had my fair share of trauma, MVCs, stabbings, GSWs, etc... But last night, toned out at 0'dark thirty, from a dead sleep, we were running to the rig, to go look for our patient. Actually our patient hadn't been found yet, but the report was a male...

I would like to start this just to see the little tips/tricks, etc... that people have accumulated that may help us recognize symptoms/signs a little more quickly, and allow us to look beyond to what may happen in the immediate future to better construct a plan of care for our patient. Here's a...