Sparky things you've done...

When I carried shears, I tucked them in my belt on the side; with the safety out. that way if I snagged them it just pulled my belt, didn't rip my pants
 
johnrsemt said:
When I carried shears, I tucked them in my belt on the side; with the safety out. that way if I snagged them it just pulled my belt, didn't rip my pants
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Your shears had a safety?
 
Now, you said that you have your raptor holster in the 3 o'clock position, ready for rapid access, but you haven't stated if you carry the shears unfolded and ready to save exactly 1.2 seconds, or whether you like to go high speed low drag and keep them folded until you need to deploy, single-handedly of course.

But really, if your shears have a safety, I want a pair, just to say I have shears with a safety.
 
Level zero with five calls holding and a slowwwww partner. Partner gets in the rig and I go hauling out of the ED bay ready to go save the city. And clunk, out goes the airway bag onto the ground, someone forgot to close the side door.

This was last week. I still do dumb, sparky things now and again.
 
cruiseforever said:
Watching my ambulance's tail lights disappear. Always remove keys at the scene and carry a portable radio.
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Lol you're not supposed to turn the ambulance off @ a scene , Why wouldn't you just lock it ? Your dept doesn't have more then one set of keys?
 
No extra keys. We have a little button to push that let's us remove the keys while the truck is running. And should the keys get locked in the truck we have a double secret button on the outside to let us in.
 
One set of keys per rig here too, nothing fancy that let's us take the keys and keep it running..though we do have the super duper secret knob in the grill that'll unlock the rig if we happen to lock the keys in

Anyways as far as sparky things are concerned, not to long ago we ran a call, going to transport BLS, well when the medics closed the side door I thought they were done and clearing so I started to drive off, only for them to flag me down 'cuz they were still writing their PCR!! The ONE time I don't ask if everyome is good to go before I drive off too lol
 
I still manage to drive down the road with my secondaries on totally oblivious to it.
Once managed to drive down the road (from our main deployment) only to remember that I left the bag on the curb.
 
I did the batbelt thing, i still think it's a good idea, but it turns into a pain in the butt.

The paramedics at my department seem to have a competition to see who can carry the most crap in their cargo pockets. Most of them have at least three different types of scissors and clamps.
 
cruiseforever said:
Watching my ambulance's tail lights disappear. Always remove keys at the scene and carry a portable radio.
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Doesn't your truck have a "lockout" button that you can press to unlock the doors - so you don't need to turn the truck off?


I turned the truck off once and it wouldn't start.... And we had a pt in back. Haven't made that mistake twice.
 
COmedic17 said:
Doesn't your truck have a "lockout" button that you can press to unlock the doors - so you don't need to turn the truck off?


I turned the truck off once and it wouldn't start.... And we had a pt in back. Haven't made that mistake twice.
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Ours don't. We have 2 sets of keys and a spare key hidden on the ambulance.
 
COmedic17 said:
That's inconvenient
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Whats worse is that the 2nd set of keys has our narcotic key on it and the keys are left with the EMT. So if I need the narcs I have to get the keys from my partner.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Whats worse is that the 2nd set of keys has our narcotic key on it and the keys are left with the EMT. So if I need the narcs I have to get the keys from my partner.
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Our narcs have a punch code to get to them and EMTs are not allowed to know the code.

The pro is you know know one can mess with your narcs after you sign for them.


But one huge con is its a pain in the *** when a patients seizing and you have a bunch of stuff to do- but your the only one who can punch the code to get the versed. I have resorted to climbing into the back and putting the narc box in my pocket on calls that might involve narcs to avoid this inconvenience. But it's still a pain.
 
I thought I finally escaped this but I guess I'll admit to it. First time at a hospital, fairly small spaces in the ambulance bay but still reasonable, was two weeks into my first EMT job and wasn't entirely comfortable backing in, so I nose in... Thinking I can live this down... Would've been ok, but I didn't think about the curb you usually have the back over, parked in the spot furthest from nearest gap in the curb, with a 400# pt...

I learned to back up anywhere pretty quick after that. Thankfully it was IFT BLS
 
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