Recent content by Eddie2170

In NY if im driving lights & sirens patient on board or not a flagger is going to assume im coming for their emergency. This is strictly Duty to Act & Abandonment Im a NYS Emt or Medic in a NYS Certified Ambulance i am in service im responsible. I see the patient or am being directed to a...

Im not saying you have to even get out of the bus, but you at minimum have to acknowledge the flaggers existence & tell them you're notifying dispatch. I agree with you its not in your patient on boards best interest however like i said you really don't have a choice. & forbid the patient is...

If you were to be on the way to a call regardless of the priority & get flagged down you have to stop (or put on blinders) but you really wouldn't know what it is until after you stop. & once you stop you have to act. If someone is waving you down youre obviously going to stop & then obviously...

There are a lot of different topics being thrown around here. Firstly (from my understanding) the OP both Volunteers outside of NYC & operates as an EMT with a Private based Contract & IFT EMS service. Very different areas, different rules, etc. Within NYC you have 4 types of services FDNY...

You're schedule rotates 5 on 2 off 5 on 3 off, repeat 8 hour tours Units run different start & end times during tour change If you work tour 1 (any 8 hour period between 10pm & 10am (approximately, i.e. 2200-0600 or 0100-0900hrs) its fairly easy to go to school, in fact most people who i work...

No they don't, if they have someone drop out last minute or something, they'll call Friday to show up Monday morning

Used the LTV1200s frequently never had any issues, had ~3ish REVEL units (that replaced the LTV1000s before I started), didn't use them as often but most of the Medics liked them a lot more once they were comfortable with them

From just having gone through the process Good luck to everyone If you are low on the list, expect to start roughly a year from Submitting Date If you are a little higher expect 1.5 years (i was in the 400's i fell in here) For those of you who just got letters expect an agility test...

Me & my friend, both working for the same service, both got the call yesterday, see you guys the 10th And neither of us got a choice on class, both of us got the evening class

As a bls provider definitely not An ALS provider, I dont know, I dont think so, however a call to the receiving MD med control could always change that

I agree with this, i'm in NY and in class we were taught you are not definitively diagnosing (this is at the BLS level however paramedics are a certification also not a license so id assume its the same), but my paramedic partner I think said it the best, to provide an appropriate treatment you...

Municipal 911 Minimum (rare) - 1 Driver 1 EMT Usually - 1 Driver/EMT 1 EMT 1 Support (or second EMT) Often/Maximum - 2 EMT/Drivers 1 EMT 1 Support/Probationary/Orientee or some combination thereof With Single Medic Flycar Intercepts (Support Member will usually drive the flycar so the Medic can...

And yes, im in a semi-rural area but with all my available ALS being privates i've been dispatched to AMS with a quote of no ALS available from dispatch & a ~20 minute ETA to the hospital after getting the pt in the ambulance & a few months prior to that we had a coach bus mci with a 30 min ETA...

Fair enough

No obviously if your an AEMT you dont need to call for the bls stuff before your AEMT interventions can be done etc. & i really just posted the actual protocols because i was getting annoyed reading peoples responses to what was stupid and arguing over stuff they obviously didnt read or know...