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You must take the nremt written test to become newly certified in va. IIRC, you can print a permission to test letter for nremt from state ems website acount now that you passed the practicals. register on nremt website.

In the US, you are entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans With Disabilities act. Almost all the stuff I have seen on the ambulance which is identified by colors is also identified by numbers and/or words and if they aren't, there are reasonable alternatives available. For...

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We have various studies which show: ALS outcomes worse than BLS for severe trauma, trauma, stroke, respiratory distress. ALS averages double the on scene to hospital time. 27 minutes ALS, 13 minutes BLS. Which means that ALS, on average, spent longer stabilizing for transport than the time...

Our class used some generic online scheduling software and it turned out to be a nightmare because of the inflexibility of fields and the need to mix student edited and instructor edited content in the same field and incorrect undoing of entries, accidental duplication and deletion of entries...

voice recorder app on cell phone. Record. Recite. Playback. score. Repeat.

Ebay ems holster Bluetooth proximity tags (work with smartphones. Alarm when tag out of range)

The wreck was apparently a 1-2 miles away and an hour after the ceremony. It seems to be a bit of an exaggeration to say she worked the call, but you don't have to ride an ambulance to the scene, be dispatched, or go across town to work a call. I don't see evidence that she did much that she...

I was overly brief as I was posting from a cell phone. I didn't see the studies, just a presentation by those who perform the procedures, and I am not sure about the 36 hour number being specifically associated with the mechanical interventions. I came out of the presentation with the idea...

They were percentage points, not percentages. If we compare 3% mortality to 7% mortality (or survival), that is 4 percentage points difference but a 133% increase or 57% decrease. 4 percentage points difference in absolute risk looks like a small difference but can actually be a large...

OP has to take the NREMT Assessment exam, rather than the NREMT certification exam which OP has already passed and been NREMT certified. As far as I can tell, this is probably the same as the NREMT cognitive exam. However, it appears one of our users has suggested on another forum, that...

Somone started 2nd thread. their link is to an article that descrines the study and includes video presentation. http://emtlife.com/threads/als-increases-mortality-bls-cheaper-and-better-outcomes.42496/

http://emtlife.com/threads/study-bls-better-than-als-for-trauma-stroke-respiratory-distress.42485/ Someone already started a thread on this study, although your link has some info not readily accessable on the other. Thread merge candidate.

For thrombolytics, the odds ratio plot for favorable outcome at 3months declines roughly linearly and intersects 1.0 at about 6 hours duration of ischemia give or take an hour beforedipping below i.e mire harm than good. For interventional neuroradiology, I think it was 12-36 hours with current...

AMA page on white lab coats http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2007/04/mhst1-0704.html