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Note II Smart Phone
LED Pen Light
Littman Stethoscope
Gerber Rescue Kinfe
 
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what i carry

I have a stylus pen for my epcrs, a LED flashlight, my wallet, and my watch. My POV keys stay on the shifter of the ambulance becuase I've lost them before.


Just a side note_+++++ Does anyone else notice that the amount carried on a persons belt inversely reflects the amount of time spent in EMS???? Just asking...
 
It's kind of funny, the stuff I carry seems to change often. Aside from my radio, keys and phone, I also have a small surefire light and a leatherman on my radio strap. I still carry shears and an 18ga cath. I have a pen, sharpie and small notebook in my pocket and I also keep an ETCO2 cannula and extra IV start kit in my flight suit cargo pocket. I use these things all the time, and it just makes sense to have them with me.

Carry what you need. You learn over time what you need to carry and what is just extra junk.
 
Small surefire EB1 flashlight. Surefire pen. Microtech Ultratech knife. Watch, wallet, keys, cell phone.

I used to carry trauma sheers and a stethescope (which I've ditched). There's always a stethescope around, and I never need trauma sheers. They're around and I also have a knife.

In the hospital, I don't wear a watch (on purpose) and I carry a 10cc saline flush.
 
wallet and narc keys if its my turn. everything else is available in the truck or one of our bags. i don't carry an ems knife "just in case"
 
I have:
My company pager
Cell Phone
FDNY Radio Hoslter
Littmann Scope.

At times i will carry my EMS guide book with me.
 
To follow up on this...

CodeBru1984 said:
I carry two different set ups:

On duty (Security Officer/EMT)
Right side:
Pepper spray
Handcuffs
Flashlight ring
Maglight

Left side:
RCB Baton
Key ring

Right pant pocket:
Vehicle keys

Right pant utility pocket:
Nitrile Gloves

Left pant pocket:
Leatherman Crunch multi tool

Left pant utility pocket:
Empty

Right shirt pocket:
iPhone

Left shirt pocket:
Handcuff key
Notepad
Pens

BLS bag is stored in vehicle trunk.

Off duty (Civilian)
iPhone
Nitrile gloves
Leatherman
Vehicle keys
House keys

I tend to keep it simple when I'm not on duty.
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Since I am working strictly in EMS now.

On duty (IFT/911 EMT)
iPhone
Pager
Portable Radio
Leatherman
Spyderco Endura
Vehicle keys
House keys

Off duty (Civilian)
iPhone
Nitrile gloves
Leatherman
Spyderco Endura
Vehicle keys
House keys
 
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Statgear T3 Tactical triage knife, which has a light and seatbelt/clothes remover, pen, pad, phone, wallet. Why need much else? I could almost cut out carrying my knife... but it doesnt take up much room and its handy when I need a pupil check and there is no penlight to be seen anywhere on scene, even though its dozens in the rig.
 
On belt

Department pager
Department radio


In pockets.
Cell phone
keys
pocket knife (2.5" flip knife with no extra "doodads")
Pens
Rite in the Rain EMS pad (department provides them, so why not?)
extra gloves.

ALS field guide and Omnimedix (for double checking math) on cell phone.

The only really "odd" item I have is a handcuff key tied into my bootlaces. A cop I work with regularly suggested it. it was $8 and doesn't take up much space or get in the way.
 
Off duty, w/ jeans:

R back pocket - Cards/ID/Certs + karambit
R coin pocket - pair of nitrile gloves + small flashlight
L back pocket - keys + phone
L front pocket - pen + pupil light

On duty, w/ 5.11 Tactical Traverse Pant. (The 4-way stretch fabric in these things are amazing. I've never ripped and they are crazy comfy. They feel like lululemon pants or something)

R back pocket - Cards/ID/Certs
R front pocket - karambit
L front pocket - pen + pupil light
L back pocket - Phone
L cargo pocket - 2-3 pairs of nitrile gloves + unit keys + pulse oximeter
R cargo pocket - stethoscope + shears + puke bags
belt - company radio and sometimes a venue provided radio.

Depending on the venue I'll carry some 2x2's and earplugs in my front left pocket, or keep my phone/keys in my jacket.

... And I thought I was a whacker
 
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I've started carrying less and less stuff.

Wallet, cellphone, a pair of sharpies a pen in my left breast pocket for me, a couple of pens in my pant's pen pockets for patients, my narc kit, a pair of shears, a can of chew and a flashlight. Keys for the narc safe and drug cabinet are on my belt with my pager and radio. Keys to my personal truck hang on the map light in the unit.
 
All I carry around is my ego. There's not really room for much else.
 
I just carry a pen light, cell phone, leatherman multitool knife, and use my own steth.....everything else, in my mind, is situation dependent and the gear comes out when needed
 
Switched out my standard smokes for an e-cig... Still my most important piece of kit...
 
Bullets said:
When im just an EMT
Radio is in a radio strap, with a glove pouch and sheers tucked between the pouch and the strap with a leather strap the retains the sheers to the strap so the dont get caught along with my key set
CRKT M16 knife in right slash pocket
Fat Ivan Door chock in left slash pocket
Department ID, Pen, notepad and Leatherman 300 Monarch in Left chest
Galaxy SIII in otterbox defender in right chest
Wallet back left
Add a streamlight stinger at night, or maybe a polytac on the radio strap if im lazy or in a station where i can sleep
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Ive cut down a little

L Chest: Notpad, ID, two pens
R Chest: Phone
L Thigh Pocket: 2 sharpies, red and black
R Thigh Pocket: Folding knife and Pelican 1920
3 O'clock on belt: Glove pouch and SOG multitool

Still have the radio strap, dumped the shears, lost the door chock
 
pants-
right cargo: litmann 2
left cargo: gloves
wacker pocket: shears, blue sharpie, ballpoint pen, gel pen, ipod touch (used strictly on duty, has my protocol book, normal lab values, erg, epocrates)
left pocket: spring assist rescue knife
right pocket: phone

shorts-
left cargo:gloves
right cargo:litmann 2
right pocket: blue sharpie ballpoint pen, gel pen, ipod touch
left pocket:phone
shears: behind the belt and through the 6 o'clock belt loop
 
What I carry

Belt: Leatherman in pouch

Left 24/7 slit pocket: Surefire E2E secured with its pocket clip
Right 24/7 slit pocket: Benchmade 915 folder

Right cargo: credential case (my normal wallet is a business card holder)
Right back: wallet
Left back: Rite in rain notepad
Left cargo: shears and iPhone (with medcom and all direct ER #s & poison #; sometimes the radio isn't best)

Front left: Copenhagen; a pair of gloves (as well as in jacket pockets, bunker pocket...)

Sleeve pocket: bright chrome twist ballpoint... just enough value to keep from losing.

Box: Personal Littman Master Classic II

What I DON'T carry: anything of value that might cause me to beg hunting it down at the home of a patient for whom things ended badly.
 
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