Recent content by cleanboofs

Hello, is anyone on this forum from Buncombe County EMS? Thanks

We ran 112kish last year and we are SSM. The amount of ambulances vary from day to day. Today there were about 17 day shift ambulances on and about 21 night shift ambulances on, with the understanding that on and off times overlap. Average calls per shift I'd say 10-20 during summer and 5-12...

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Maybe I miss read the thread, but when you cardiovert someone, you sync on the R wave not the Q. If I remember correctly the R on T phenomenon comes from QT prolongation, or from cardioverting on the T wave (which could happen easily if the monitor interprets a peaked T wave to be an R wave by...

I'm an EMT here. The field training program varies in length all dependent upon you. The driving phase is first and the medical phase is second. The FT program can last 3 months to a year depending upon how quick you pick it up. I'd say most emt's get done with it around the 6-8 month mark. Oh...

You my friend will not be bored working the streets here. The field training program will keep you plenty busy.

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We have to take two driving tests and have to remember all the streets of the city and county I'm in. We also have to remember all the hospital Ed locations (9 or 10 eds) and police substations.

If you have a month, you should try and make it out to Colorado to schedule a ride with the Denver Health Paramedics. They always have riders from baby Docs, LEOs to paramedic students.

I'm north of BV.

That's some really good ideas! Thanks for the reply. I wasn't working for these guys last year but I was still living up here and while we didn't have any days that cold we definitely had some in the -20 degree range. So the advice is much appreciated.

Good ideas, but I don't know if having a tin of biscuits and a flask wrapped up in a towel would sit well with my supervisor.

Yea, I feel like Murphy is pretty popular in our lives.

Thanks, hand warmers didn't even occur to me!