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I'll try to be as delicate as possible describing this.
I'm a female with a large bust. Carrying a typical ADC medical pupilary penlight in my breast-pocket results in losing a lot of penlights since the durn thing "rides up" and out. It's especially embarrassing when this happens in front of patients, police and firemen. "That's me, the freakin AEMT n00b girl, chasing her pupil penlight down the street instead of pushing the stretcher!"
I had a Prestige Medical brand penlight with a better clip that didn't fall out so easily but the light is a piece of poo and looking on Amazon for a replacement reveals that it's not just a defective fluke, MOST of the reviews for that product are bad.
I was thinking of getting something with maybe a carabiner to carry on a belt-loop or something but can't find a standard, non-bright bulb. I was advised NOT to buy an LED penlight since using the bright blue-white on a patient with head trauma due to seizure could cause another seizure.
I'm thinking there has got to be another lady-EMT out there who has experienced and solved this problem somehow. I'm trying NOT to be the new, green EMT with half-a-dozen things hanging from my belt. I've managed to pare myself down to trauma shears in the trauma shears pocket, a pen in each pants pocket (one for gloved hands and one for bare hands) and an extrication tool with a seatbelt cutter and windshield buster that someone bought me as a gift on the belt.
So, lady EMS, tell me your thoughts!
I'm a female with a large bust. Carrying a typical ADC medical pupilary penlight in my breast-pocket results in losing a lot of penlights since the durn thing "rides up" and out. It's especially embarrassing when this happens in front of patients, police and firemen. "That's me, the freakin AEMT n00b girl, chasing her pupil penlight down the street instead of pushing the stretcher!"
I had a Prestige Medical brand penlight with a better clip that didn't fall out so easily but the light is a piece of poo and looking on Amazon for a replacement reveals that it's not just a defective fluke, MOST of the reviews for that product are bad.
I was thinking of getting something with maybe a carabiner to carry on a belt-loop or something but can't find a standard, non-bright bulb. I was advised NOT to buy an LED penlight since using the bright blue-white on a patient with head trauma due to seizure could cause another seizure.
I'm thinking there has got to be another lady-EMT out there who has experienced and solved this problem somehow. I'm trying NOT to be the new, green EMT with half-a-dozen things hanging from my belt. I've managed to pare myself down to trauma shears in the trauma shears pocket, a pen in each pants pocket (one for gloved hands and one for bare hands) and an extrication tool with a seatbelt cutter and windshield buster that someone bought me as a gift on the belt.
So, lady EMS, tell me your thoughts!