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DesertEMT66 said:
See riverside and San Bernardino counties aren't THAT bad haha
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Riverside and SB, great to work in, terrible to live in.


/Ok... Colton isn't -that- bad.
//I still live behind a damn Walmart though.
///Will now reiterate my thanks for OC and LA being crud systems. You convinced me to go to med school, not paramed school since you treat your paramedics like brain dead slobs.
 
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chaz90 said:
Do you find that most of the calls that you have to ALS attend end up being driven by protocol or complaint rather than treatment? With an intermediate being able to start lines and monitor a 4 lead EKG, I feel like my ALS pt. load would drop by 75%. Add the fact that your intermediate can presumably run Albuterol nebs, and I'd bet you end up driving more often than not.
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No 4-lead for intermediates here. They can place it, not attend the patient though.

If say about have the patients I attend are protocol driven.

Albuterol and duoneb treatments are an ALS treatment here, Intermediates can administer them but the call is attended by the paramedic.

Usually the calls are 50/50ish between my partner and I. With that said there are plenty of days where all I do is drive and she attends and visa versa. It tends to balance out in the end.

When I worked nights I had one week where we ran 43 calls in our 4 day tour, I attended one of them. Partner took the rest. Nights tend to generally be more ILS calls, days tend to swing more towards the ALS side with more nursing home and doc-in-the-box transfers for "chest pain" or "abnormal labs". Always love going code for the SNF patient with diarrhea then going routine for "abnormal labs" only to find a pt with a K of 8+ with a yucky wide rhythm that they though kaexalate (sp?) would fix but it didn't...
 
Well, let's intrepidly commit to the Zoll Path of Disaster! (Rollout's coming up here).

It's been a long week, this first day off rocked. Two more, then back for four. See my "Good, Bad, Ugly" thread.
 
9D4 said:
So, is the EMTlife banner at the top supposed to be upside down for April Fool's or something? Can't figure out why it is, because it's not on my phone... Lol
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Just be glad I had to work all day. I could have messed with the site all day long.
 
I ordered chicks from the hatchery this morning.. I'm pretty excited, we're going to try Americanas this year. They lay blue and green eggs..
 
shfd739 said:
We start our rollout to that one this month in my area.

Previous epcr was Zoll with disasterous results.
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I'm so sorry....


I have nothing good to say about Health EMS.

I lied, the narrative templates aren't horrible but all I use is cardiac arrest transport, cardiac arrest no transport, ground medical transport and ground AMA. I don't bother with the cva or cp or abd pain, ect ones. I'm not sure if they made them or if someone at my agency made them.
 
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I was pleasantly surprised to find that my new place uses ESO and they have the proper hardware solutions to support it. Yes it takes some time to do their PCR, but I would not term it difficult.
 
Tigger said:
I was pleasantly surprised to find that my new place uses ESO and they have the proper hardware solutions to support it. Yes it takes some time to do their PCR, but I would not term it difficult.
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You call the suitcases proper hardware?
 
Important announcement

I'm sorry to announce that General TicTac the CL's pet goat died last night. A long time fixture at many a late night chat room party General TicTac will be missed.
















Aidey did it
 
bigbaldguy said:
I'm sorry to announce that General TicTac the CL's pet goat died last night. A long time fixture at many a late night chat room party General TicTac will be missed.
















Aidey did it
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May his memory be for a blessing.
 
emt.dan said:
You call the suitcases proper hardware?
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Toughbook?

I'd trade my silly little Fisher Price laptop that was issued to me for an old toughbook in a heartbeat.
 
Robb said:
Toughbook?

I'd trade my silly little Fisher Price laptop that was issued to me for an old toughbook in a heartbeat.
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Ewww....Panasonic Needs a better charger.
 
Robb said:
When they get old they get finicky about actually charging when they're plugged in.
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You guys mean this? Nothing a little 2in cloth tape can't fix. :) lol
 

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TRSpeed said:
You guys mean this? Nothing a little 2in cloth tape can't fix. :) lol
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Ah yes. The universally rigged fix for those things. Nothing like a little tape supplied ingenuity.
 
TRSpeed said:
You guys mean this? Nothing a little 2in cloth tape can't fix. :) lol
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We are moving away from the 12 volt chargers to the wall chargers. I haven't had any issues with the 120 volt ones. Our rigs have 2 toughbooks (one for the CAD, GPS, call info and the other one is only for ePCRs). So in turn each rig has 2 chargers
 
emt.dan said:
You call the suitcases proper hardware?
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I actually moved (permanently) and am no longer working for the Golden B anymore. Got a gig at a small service in Colorado. We have Toughbook Tablets and one General Dynamics laptop. I've heard the horror stories about GD stuff but our's works just fine. The network is much faster and the computers seem to be able to run the program with little hassle.
 
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