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    Backboarding question.

    It's ok to jump on me,,, just don't sqwish me. :) We do have protocals in place for a reason here. The doc used to be a paramedic in colorado and had found where many a times the pt shoulda been under c-spine precautions. To this day she still will say "there's that off chance where...
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    Backboarding question.

    Even in our area, a call like that would have me backboarding and collaring. We even have to go into the state penn infirmary ready to do all that even though there's a doc there. But our hospital is small enough that the clinic is right there and the docs are our trauma docs. Both of them...
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    Exercises?

    I hope ya don't mind if i chime in here,,, kickboxing was awesome. I had a blast doing it. It also helped in learning a lil' bit of the defensive stuff that we should know. (I make many runs out to the state penn for some inmates that will make the hair on the back of my neck stand up) I...
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    The Official EMTLIFE Introduction Thread

    Howdy! I'm from rural Montana and currently work as an e911 dispatcher, an emt, and a reserve deputy (in my spare time). Before I moved here, I was a volunteer structural ff for 9 years. The dispatch part is sposed to be my "full time" job, but the emt job has me "on call" more. The reserve...
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