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Based in the discussion here if you initiated IV access and patient is paying for it, and you are not giving any IV meds or IV fluids that the patient currently requires then IV access that was established is not actually being utilized. I am very liberal with my 12 lead acquisitions and I have...

Again I am not advocating starting IV access on every single person. However if you only initiate IV access on people you are giving IV medications to that number will be very small to maintain IV skill proficiency. Let's say we go with "because I might need it later" approach. Would you...

And how many of you protested in medic school when you had to do multiple IV 's on each other for PRACTICE?

Certainly it's called empirical evidence. Do you have any evidence to disprove my claim?

First I never stated EVERYONE is getting an IV for practice. I would say the populace that truly requires IV access for medication administration/fluid administration is tiny compared to overall call volume. Second IV access and Nasal Pharyngeal Airway skills are not at all the same. Have you...

Please get of your high horses about this noble pursuit of "only if truly required". If you followed this rule you would be performing maybe 1 IV a day or most likely not at all, as majority of ALS calls don't "truly require" IV access. I guess none saw any flaw with this statement "because I...

One needs to perform the skill to maintain adequate proficiency for the select few patients who really do require IV access. If you only initiate IV access on very small percentage of patients who truly need it, you may lose the dexterity and precision and the diabetic with BGL of 30mg/dl who is...

Yes, I agree going to medical school mainly to advance EMS would be a bad proposition. Matter of fact, advancing EMS as a profession would not even be on my list of things to do. What impact can you have as a medic with bachelors or masters degree on EMS? Write a few articles in Jems...

Imagine if a medical director of tertiary care facility or big name hospital was able to change requirements for paramedic hire form this: Requirements - Minimum five years experience as an Paramedic, preferably in a large metropolitan area. Current licensure and/or certification as listed...

I thought this thread was about BEST thing you said?

And how many of those professions allow 2 week transition course for medics? Yet we allow anyone to be a medic in 2 weeks. If you want to be taken seriously, yes you need credibility and research to back it. If you dont have a degree how can you argue the merits of mandatory degree?

If you want ligitimate change for future of ems get doctorate PhD degrees or MD/DO degrees and become involved in acvancing this profession.

Because a physician first assessed said patient and gave the orders/standing orders for you to follow henceforth. When a Paramedic arrives on scene sadly there is no doctor there assessing the patient and informing me of the care plan.

My main point here was to illustrate that a physician was trained to perform physicians job and practice medicine from the start, he was not practicing nursing and then decided to specialize and go into anesthesia. Practicing nursing and practicing medicine are too different things, yet nurses...

'MERICAAAH :cool: