me to nurse:
after waiting for about five/ten minutes at the not-so-busy ER
"can we get a bed over here? got an MI here..."
"how do you know he's having a heart attack?"
"the 12-lead ekg is showing a very apparent STEMI."
"well is he a heartstat?"
"i don't know, i'm not a...
A recent article in JEMS about changes to the FF/EMS structure in Washington, DC:
http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/articles/jems/3401/from_worst_to_first.html
In contrast, another recent article, this time in Washingtonian Magazine, with a very different view...
I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. The truth is, most people on Craigslist are honest people trying to sell their things. Unfortunately, it's the few people that scam others give it a bad name.
latex - white (thick, extended cuff)
nitrile - blue (thick, extended cuff) and black (thin, much easier to use, i use them for most of my patients [that i use gloves on, that is.])
Hopefully you guys will understand.
The image is what I took of my friend/LT(standing) as we were going around a corner in a rig (that had less than 3,000 miles which had already gone to repair about five times before) and it decided to just cut all power and die on us.
(PL Custom is a...
I'm building up a website for a local ambulance corps and I was trying to get some ideas for general layouts and whatnot. If your corps has a decent website, please reply with it. And hey, it'd also be nice to see where eachother works!
I'm at http://www.springhillems.org/
NYS PENAL LAW 120.05
120.05 Assault in the second degree
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3. With intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a fireman,
including a fireman acting as a paramedic or emergency medical
technician administering first aid in the course of performance of duty
as such fireman, an...
(This happened in Rockland County, NY..It's southernmost county in NY west of the hudson.. It's on the NJ border and about thirty minutes from NYC.)
http://lohud.com/article/20081120/NEWS03/811200519