Recent content by Benja99

Great questions! It's really up to your agency's medical director and general counsel. There are correlations between breath alcohol level to the blood alcohol level, backed by research. Those are widespread and their are studies that show blood alcohol level for acute pt's does correlate to...

I think everyone is being too narrow minded. Obviously, using breathalyzers in a rural EMS situation would most likely be useless, but when considering the inclusion of a skill to the scope of practice of EMS professionals, you should take into account the multitude of environments where EMS...