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Been an eventful shift already. Only thirty six more hours to go
How do you like those Freightliner Sprinters? I'll go so far as to say that we have Sprinters at my company.
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How do you like those Freightliner Sprinters? I'll go so far as to say that we have Sprinters at my company.
MrJones
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That looks more like a Type III with a Sprinter cab than an actual Sprinter Type II ambulance.
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I just read what may be the most awful piece of EMS fiction ever written. I suppose that's what happens when I get bored and start to crawl all over the internet...
TransportJockey
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I've read som pretty aweful stuff... what was it?
TransportJockey
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It is a Type III. Not a bad unit, but I hate the way the thing drives... Way too narrow and top heavy feeling. Plus major turbo lag with the diesel that's in the thing. I love the box because it's a narrow box, and easier to work in for me.
CALEMT
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It's 112 outside and I'm in the ambulance with the broken arm rest and alright a/c. Still deciding on what I want for dinner...
DesertMedic66
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The broken arm rest is probably my biggest pet peeve in an ambulance second to a single cab.
CALEMT
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Sounds like your in an AMR unit
Haha no it's worse. One leaks diesel, other two my knees get pressed up to the dashboard, another ones fuel injectors keep going out, and we have one new one that everyone wants (working arm rests, great a/c in the front and back, rides nice... I can go on and on...)
NomadicMedic
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My current partner and I, together, are a combined Black cloud which makes the storm that whisked Dorothy away to Oz look like a passing shower
DesertMedic66
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We have 5-8 new ambulances that everyone wants. I'm sure in a couple more months they will be ran down
Jim37F
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So in the shift bids we just did I scored a CCT shift. I was looking forward to no more Grandma going back to the nursing home BLS transfers, until I found out that my CCT shift is a new one added to the schedule, so new we don't have a nurse for that shift, so...yeah, still doing non emergent BLS transfers unless a nurse decides to pick up an extra shift or we manage to hire someone new.
abckidsmom
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I know this one. I think summer has a lot to do with it too. We have averaged around 10 calls a shift since May. Each call, if it's a transport, takes 2-3 hours. It sucks.
NomadicMedic
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It's not that bad, but the calls we DO run are bad ones… today was the third RSI in four shifts.
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Gah, I didn't even hear you go on that today! We had another no hitter.
TransportJockey
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Sounds like our shifts. I've been averaging 18 calls per 48 lately. With an average of 2.5 hours from start to finish
NomadicMedic
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And while my partner was putting his gear back together, I went out on a STEMI. Nonstop fun and excitement
EMDispatch
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Well, hopefully in September everyone on the Shore will calm down again.
Even if you do get a nurse, you might still be doing BLS calls. For some reason, ambulance companies would rather chance missing a CCT call rather than turn a BLS call.
JPINFV
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My favorite ambulance at my first company was one of the oldest ambulances... if for no other reason than no one else wanted it so it wasn't going to get any worse. When, for all extents and purposes, a handful of people "own" a unit, it tends to be taken care of.