Jim37F
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Drink water, change your socks, and you'll live forever. 800mg Motrin will cure everything, now get out of sick call and back to PT you malingerer!
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Jim37F
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I totally understand that we have response times requirements, and that those are a big deal to management, but I hate that crews feel so pressured that my partner reached across the console and grabbed the hand mike and went "on scene" with Dispatch while we were still several blocks out, including a major intersection, and fire around a corner not even in visual sight (so in other words met precisely zero of our criteria to be able to go on scene officially), and this is a widespread phenomenon because people are afraid of being written up for busted response times
CALEMT
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Is compliance that big of an issue?
NomadicMedic
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I need Decadron and some Toradol. Aka: the Urgent Care cure all.
ViolynEMT
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Windex. If you're Greek. (My Big Fat Greek Wedding).
My Dad always said Vick's Vapo Rub.
Jim37F
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I don't think so.....back in new hire orientation, they talked about having a ~96% compliance with on scene times, which the County apparently only requires 92%....so no, but yes I guess? By management's internal standards? They still like to brag, many years ago there was one month where we were 100% compliant and they really want to do that again.
At the same time, in my year there, I've gotten a write up for missing "out of chute" time (when you're in quarters at a station, you have 1 min from the "pre alert" (phone call from dispatch) to go on air in the ambulance, 2 min at night), had to write an incident report (but avoided a write up) for a mapping error or two, but have precisely zero for missing the response time....when the call is out of your district, or otherwise far away or Dispatch is juggling units on multiple incoming calls so you end up dispatched 4 minutes into the call they can't really hold it against you (unless you added extra delays on out of chute or mapping errors but as long as you do what you're supposed to they can't write you up for it, but I can only imagine what would happen if you call on scene but then get into an accident going through that light between you and the call....I just don't want to be part of that crew......
VentMonkey
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Haha, yep. Cures everything with a dab under your nose, and then your chest...
oof, Toradol did nothing for my herniated disc, it did burn my arm (IM), but I'm pretty sure I was beyond medication as I limped around with a drop foot until my surgery.
I can't recall if I was ever given Decardon, or any steroids for that matter, though. Oh, and the Percs they gave me did nothing but make me sleepy.
RocketMedic
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If only Hall had EZIO...
I washed my turnout Gear 3 times last month. Once on the 4th cause it was due to be washed, again 2 days later cause of blood from a fatality wreck. Then again 2 weeks later from a structure fire.
Got new gear and put it in service at 0200 Saturday, by 1400 today it was already in the washer from a brush fire. Over it.
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Got new gear and put it in service at 0200 Saturday, by 1400 today it was already in the washer from a brush fire. Over it.
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NysEms2117
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You the hulk or something?? You seem like the kinda person that propofol would make you more energized
VentMonkey
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Hardly. They gave me Versed? in pre-op (been five years) and it did exactly what it was supposed to. The term "amnestic effect" is definitely a thing.You the hulk or something?? You seem like the kinda person that propofol would make you more energized
I'm more just your average stubborn dood. I refused to stay overnight, and had my wife drive me home with sedatives still coarsing through my veins.
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DesertMedic66
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NRP done. Now to recert national license, then PHTLS/ITLS, find an advanced trauma class (lots of them around here), and then FP-C.
CALEMT
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DRMC?
VentMonkey
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Looks like LLUMC is y'alls main option. Ours appears to be CRMC in Fresno:
http://web20.facs.org/atls_cr/ATLS_Course_Search_Result.cfm
DesertMedic66
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LLUMC is the main one. RUHS (the old RCRMC) also has some.
This is my recert year for classes. ACLS and PALS are finished. NRP and AMLS sometime this year and I have to take ITLS a year early. For whatever reason they gave me a 3 year cert last time and it threw everything off (they typically only give out two year certs at my employer).
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I need to redo my amls. And teach another phtls class to keep my instructor. I'm due for nr recert next year. And my state license is up this go round too. I better get on it lol
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VentMonkey
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Same here.
What's RUHS stand for? You are talking about the county hospital in MoVal, yes?
As far as I know the ATLS course is just an "audit" for medics; it's mainly just observation TMK. I don't know if Mercy Air even requires it anymore, but like most things the alphabet soup is "highly encouraged".