Hello, all. Call me Phaedrus. I stumbled upon this site Googling for info on Celox & Quik Clot and liked it enough to register. I'm a former chef attending school, studying Information Technology. For years I've been wanting to take the EMT-B course at a local technical college, and I think I'll finally get the chance in a couple weeks. To be honest, my primary reason for taking the EMT course was initially just to be a Good Citizen, but my research into just what you folks do every day makes me consider actually looking into it.
But first things first! If I pass the course I can always look into taking the test, and even if I don't I'll be a lot more prepared for an emergency than I was before. FWIW I love camping, shooting and hiking- lots of room for accidents. And I have several thousand dollars worth of razor sharp Japanese knives for work and have seen (and occasionally suffered) some ghastly injuries in the kitchen, ranging from severed fingers to 2nd degree burns...and worse happens that I've been lucky enough to avoid over the last 20+ years.
I hope to learn a bit about first responser-type treatment as well as peer thru the window at the life of an EMT. So I will just say I'm happy to have found this site.
But first things first! If I pass the course I can always look into taking the test, and even if I don't I'll be a lot more prepared for an emergency than I was before. FWIW I love camping, shooting and hiking- lots of room for accidents. And I have several thousand dollars worth of razor sharp Japanese knives for work and have seen (and occasionally suffered) some ghastly injuries in the kitchen, ranging from severed fingers to 2nd degree burns...and worse happens that I've been lucky enough to avoid over the last 20+ years.
I hope to learn a bit about first responser-type treatment as well as peer thru the window at the life of an EMT. So I will just say I'm happy to have found this site.
