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I have a feeling I'm learning a few people's real names by watching this discussion. I am so far quite proud of the people that I'm thinking are from EMTLife.
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Well today has sucked.
Went to our normal Offroad park and manages to tag a rocker panel pretty well. Then promptly slit a tire sidewall and had to change it in the rain. Also looks like a lower control arm is bent. Crap this an exspensive hobby.
Oh and now I'm super sick. During today my sore throat has worsened to where I can't hardly swallow water.
I'm done. Wake me up in like 3 days.
Went to our normal Offroad park and manages to tag a rocker panel pretty well. Then promptly slit a tire sidewall and had to change it in the rain. Also looks like a lower control arm is bent. Crap this an exspensive hobby.
Oh and now I'm super sick. During today my sore throat has worsened to where I can't hardly swallow water.
I'm done. Wake me up in like 3 days.
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Damn, that does sound like a :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty day
h34r: Where do you go offroading at?
Damn, that does sound like a :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty day
Where do you go offroading at?
Today we went up to Hidden Falls in Marble Falls. Went up with some other Toyota guys and a few Jeeps.
We were running some of the hardest trails so damage is gonna happen but I always get out with none till now.
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I would move to Marble Falls in a heartbeat if it wasn't such a commute! Maybe once I'm on 24/72s... I know my wife has been dying to find a good trail down here for the jeep.
adamjh3
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I know of a pretty fun creek bed in Universal City.
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3 weeks and still no ACLS card. Missed 3 tubes already since I cant ride yet 
Amberlamps916
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For real. Lol mine is the one that's pretty hard to pronounce.
JPINFV
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This is promising to be a very long night...
DesertMedic66
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So it's only april and it was already 108 degrees F. This is going to be a long and hot summer :sad:
JPINFV
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That's what he said?
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I just had to backboard and c collar a 90 year old lady who fell 2 days ago. They did an X-ray tonight and saw an abnormal morphology in the C2 area. So they wanted further studies be done in the ER.
I called med control to get clearance not to backboard because it had been 2 days, she has been up walking, eating, etc.
And I was denied because "she could have a C2 fracture and you need to follow protocol and not try to deviate". This lady was in so much pain on the backboard. I felt so bad for her.
I called med control to get clearance not to backboard because it had been 2 days, she has been up walking, eating, etc.
And I was denied because "she could have a C2 fracture and you need to follow protocol and not try to deviate". This lady was in so much pain on the backboard. I felt so bad for her.
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Funny I did a transfer out of our local tiny ED today for a 14 year old who came up short on a motocross jump. Bilateral ulna/radius fx, possible pelvic fx, definite concussion and a crap load of a pain. Mom brought kid in (have you guessed this is a rural area yet) and the ED put a collar on him.
My partner immediately returned to the truck for LBB so we could "pick him up easier" and because his c-spine had not been cleared (except by an ED physician...). Poor kid could barely keep it together lying on the thing, his back was all cut up so I bet that was great. At least the partner was aggressive with pain medication.
I figure that the ED has a backboard and all the hoopla that goes with it, if they were that worried, they would have boarded the kid themselves. Not to mention that you know, LBBs don't help...
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I won't complain about our 90 degree weather. We are suppose to get up to 97 today. I can already tell this is going to be a long summer.
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This makes me sad. As someone really considering getting involved with education in ems as a career, this thread scares me. The backlash that will happen if major changes come down the pipe will be monumental.
God forbid we actually use assessment skills we were taught. That stuff is for doctors and nurses, who have deeper pockets than us lowly technicians (big surprise they're paid more seeing this, huh?)
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Rather discouraging, but get in there and change that! Our current educational model has had a profound impact on students, so improving it can have an effect too. If we can teach thousands of students to immobilize, throw a NRB on everyone, and transport every pt. emergently we can teach them the error of those options as well.
JPINFV
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To Vegas!