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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    We’re allowed to manage propofol here without critical care. You do you, I’ll do me. Cheers
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    At my agency, as long as you do the right thing, the district backs you. A guy at my work did a finger thoracotomy on a pt before they had a protocol for it, and since it worked they backed him and wrote a protocol for it. I work for a hardcore progressive agency.
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    Propofol is short acting, and isn’t hard to manage as long as you have vasoactive drugs and airway control available. I’ve never felt uncomfortable managing a propofol drip, and I’m not critical care.
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    I’m an American. Never lived anywhere else. Critical Care Paramedics aren’t trained to the level of physicians, but they are trained to be autonomous like physicians. I don’t believe our critical care medics ever contact medical control for anything. I’ve never contacted medical control, I...
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    That’s your job. Mine is adamant about having our district operationally autonomous. No doctors or nurses on our trucks, because we don’t need them. Our staff is trained to handle any case thrown at them. Critical Care here does not have protocols, they have guidelines. Their care is based on...
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    Houston Area EMS

    Not an option for me. Even so, it’s what I want and nothing is really going to change that.
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    Houston Area EMS

    Honestly, those other places just don’t have what I want. It may seem stupid to most, but the SWAT thing is just want I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. I’ll look into if MCHD or FBC has the same opportunity, and if they do I’ll probably try out there. I don’t know anything about HCEC or...
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    Houston Area EMS

    Well, that ain’t for me then. Like I said, I’d rather sign up to be a reserve with HCSO and do part time law enforcement as a reserve volunteer, than be paid as an unarmed TEMS guy who just waits in the truck. I’ll probably start at creek, and leave for FBC or MCHD if I don’t like it. There’s...
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    Houston Area EMS

    Are they all unarmed TEMS, or can you be a sworn armed member of the team if you have a post certification?
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    I’m not going to be apart of a pissing match. It doesn’t matter how long I’ve been a medic, your opinion is not superior to mine because of how long you’ve been in the field vs my time in the field. Cheers
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    Houston Area EMS

    How can you wait and call for a supervisor for RSI? If the patient is in respiratory arrest, you don’t really have time to wait around for a super..
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    Houston Area EMS

    Thanks for the advice dude. Do you know the hourly pay rate for MCHD?
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    Sorry if it offends you, but it’s just the way I feel.
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    Whats your "criteria" for starting iv access on a pt?

    I’m from St. Louis. We seem to have a different dynamic out here than other places do. Nurses and medics not getting along is a daily problem. We also don’t have nurses or physicians ride along with us, ever. Our critical care division acts like supervisors and meets us at CCT calls in fly...
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