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Robb said:
One pedi in critical condition, one in stable condition, shooter killed a 3X year old male teacher then turned the gun on himself. He was a pediatric as well, all were 11-12 years old except for the teacher.

Then had a rollover with entrapment which wasn't the case...no one was entrapped but we flew one patient. Then hooked a respiratory arrest that fire RAPED with naloxone just before I got there and made the transport a living hell. Had a pediatric trazadone OD that was a mess, literally a mess...vomit all over the place. Fill in the gaps with random B/ILS transports, AMAs, putting a hospice patient back in bed and we ended up running for 12 hours without food or a break...and it's only monday...eff me.
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Sounds like fire wasn't too happy with you, haha.
Sounds like a rough shift, though, can't imagine the rest of the week will come any where close to that first call. Rough spot for everyone involved.
 
Maybe not the best idea on the news to talk about a suicide bomber blowing up a bus and follow that with a story about dancing with the stars starting with "they didn't see it coming" :wacko:
 
Happy birthday (I'm late 2 hours) to Poetic... Errr.. I mean STXmedic
 
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Robb said:
I had a rollover with entrapment which wasn't the case...no one was entrapped but we flew one patient. Then hooked a respiratory arrest that fire RAPED with naloxone just before I got there and made the transport a living hell. Had a pediatric trazadone OD that was a mess, literally a mess...vomit all over the place. Fill in the gaps with random B/ILS transports, AMAs, putting a hospice patient back in bed and we ended up running for 12 hours without food or a break...and it's only monday...eff me.
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How do you get so many calls like that? (Obviously not the shooting. Nobody wants that) What you got in one day would take me several 24 hour shifts to get. Seems like all my calls are drunks and weak sauce.
Is it the area or are you the king of black clouds?
 
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Chris07 said:
How do you get so many calls like that? (Obviously not the shooting. Nobody wants that) What you got in one day would take me several 24 hour shifts to get. Seems like all my calls are drunks and weak sauce.
Is it the area or are you the king of black clouds?
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I'm the black cloud from hell.

First call of the day today...Working cardiac arrest.

I work in an area that ranges from urban to very rural, we cover 6000 square miles, sans for one little town that has its own ALS transporting FD.

Have about 500k people total, 400kish of which are in an urban setting.
 
Do any of y'all take part in the Medical Reserve Corps? I signed up last month.
 
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ken158 said:
Do any of y'all take part in the Medical Reserve Corps? I signed up last month.
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I put in an application for one that is run by the sheriff department. However they seem to never be active or do training so I haven't followed up with any of it.
 
ken158 said:
Do any of y'all take part in the Medical Reserve Corps? I signed up last month.
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I need to see if my local area has one. I know I'm definitely going to be signing up for CERT and the local County Fire Authority.
 
Dammit. Got forwarded to the oral boards for the cadet spot I talked about a few days ago, so I called my former EMT instructor to ask him to coach me a little bit for them, so might as well do a ride along and make a day outta it. He says Sunday and I say sure, sounds good.
Just realized Sunday is my birthday... <_<
Ahh well, still got midget wrestling on Saturday night to make up for it.
 
Robb said:
I'm the black cloud from hell.

First call of the day today...Working cardiac arrest.

I work in an area that ranges from urban to very rural, we cover 6000 square miles, sans for one little town that has its own ALS transporting FD.

Have about 500k people total, 400kish of which are in an urban setting.
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And it ends with a code return with a hemodynamically unstable 6 year old with a 103.6 degree temp.

Come ride with me if you'd like chris07, I like working with an Intermediate but I have no problem sharing the paperwork with another medic :p
 
Robb said:
And it ends with a code return with a hemodynamically unstable 6 year old with a 103.6 degree temp.

Come ride with me if you'd like chris07, I like working with an Intermediate but I have no problem sharing the paperwork with another medic :p
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How does one go about scoring a ride out?
 
Chris07 said:
How does one go about scoring a ride out?
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Generally all it requires is a phone call but we've currently suspended our community/friends/family ride along program due to "an unusually high demand for paramedics qualified to precept students and train new employees." What doesn't make sense to me is I'm an intern preceptor and the class starts their internships in a week and I didn't get one...

PM me if you're serious about trying to score one and we can chat more. There might be something that can be done. Fair warning, you have to deal with my sketchy medicine and borderline obnoxious partner for 12 hours. My white cloud third rider syndrome is hit or miss. Last rider I had we did a transfer and a legal 2000 (72 hour psych hold). The one before that hooked a drowning that even had Fire playing with their water rescue gear.
 
Robb said:
Generally all it requires is a phone call but we've currently suspended our community/friends/family ride along program due to "an unusually high demand for paramedics qualified to precept students and train new employees." What doesn't make sense to me is I'm an intern preceptor and the class starts their internships in a week and I didn't get one...

PM me if you're serious about trying to score one and we can chat more. There might be something that can be done. Fair warning, you have to deal with my sketchy medicine and borderline obnoxious partner for 12 hours. My white cloud third rider syndrome is hit or miss. Last rider I had we did a transfer and a legal 2000 (72 hour psych hold). The one before that hooked a drowning that even had Fire playing with their water rescue gear.
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Bring a good book, I'll extinguish that black cloud of yours.
 
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Where can I buy discounted 5.11 pants in the interwebs?? Google has failed me.
 
SandpitMedic said:
Where can I buy discounted 5.11 pants in the interwebs?? Google has failed me.
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Dammit, why'd you make me look. Just bought a new pair of boots. Coulda gotten a free flashlight :rofl:

Only discount I know of off the top of my head is the NAEMT's of 25%. Local store had a 20% sale the other day, but they don't ship.
 
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