Recent content by 82-Alpha599

bingo!

there is noting worse than working medic/medic and having a horrible medic as a partner. If you are a strong, confident medic, medic/basic or how I work medic/spec (works perfect for me) on the other had a new medic needs to learn how to be a medic and should work with one of those...

4 regular straps already pre-placed work very well if done right. plus save a minute maybe two = 10-20% of your on scene time for traumas. If you think they might shift on the board use 2'' tape or roller gauze where needed.

Is your real name Johnny or perhaps Roy??

anyone know how to install a wobbulator siren. I do not have a manual, just the siren/speaker and the switch.

Any tips on how to combat back pain resulting from on the job lifting? Had a lower back injury when I was 16 playing hockey, never and any complications after that year. No one particular incident that stared this but the pain is slowly getting worse and worse, to the point that I can barely...

why in a nice suburban city with good tax paying residents, should we pay firefighters to just sit at the station, when there is only 20 real house fires a year and 5,000 medical calls. medical calls generate revenue, fire not so much. we may not want to combine the jobs, but it is for the...

I work Private EMS. In the main city I respond in, the full time FD rolls for everything. They are a non transporting ALS units with 2 paramedics (we call em Echo units around here). If it is an EMS only call I would say they are helpful 40% of the time, getting IV's, drawing up Rx, getting...

it isnt only unethical but dangerous. You could send someone into withdrawals, may it be a junkie, or a cancer pt who accidentally took and extra vicodin today. Plus now they may be in pain until the narcan wheres off and some narcotic can take effect again.

That sounds pretty dumb. Just do a blood tox or urine test.

i agree. i was just wondering if anyone has a solid source for heroin half-life.

im not saying you're wrong, but do you have any resources to prove that. I looked before and could not find any that agreed on half life of heroin. I don't think anyone knows the actual half life of street heroin, every batch is different.

oh yeah about 250lbs all muscle. I was actually very afraid that he would wake up too much and want to fight. thank god he was still lethargic after 8mg

thanks for confirming my thinking. Sometimes I feel like the idiot when everyone else is against me. Our protocol for Narcan is 2mg IV/IM/IO. I usually start with 0.4 to 1mg depending on pt size, and give it really slow. only twice have I had to give more than that. One took 8mg, known...

hear is one example from yesterday, but it happens all the time with people I work with. Get a life alert activation call. on arrival no answer at the door, after a miniute we let ourselves in and see a 75ish y/o female sitting on the couch, alert to painful stimuli only. no noted...