Recent content by EMT Brendan

great job everyone on their use of google =p. point noted :P

symptomatic abdominal distension

roger

i see what youre saying. but what im looking for is accepted AMA abbreviations. chances are, if youre looking at my narrative, youve been doing this for a while and should know what the accepted universal abbreviations for things are.

we have tablets to do all the paperwork. during orientation we got to review calls for training purposes and i noticed in a majority of the narratives, abbreviations were used for a lot of things.

is there someplace online to reference all the abbreviations for things when writing narratives for the PCR's?

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yessir i did. the only thing i blanked on was a unexpected delivery question. Baby is born, hr 85, respirations normal. whats the next step. i said assessment of color thinking apgar (pulse, breathing, complexion, flexion, reflex). the correct answer was begin assisted ventilations, which still...

im pretty much just reading the OEMS protocol binder i got cover to cover... stopping or slowing down on anything that i dont know or am unsure about. But yes, it is pretty much the same for most....

just simply separating the ALS and BLS protocols. Yes everything could potentially lead into an ALS only situation, but for BLS a majority of them are just assess and monitor vitals as well as transport....

my biggest thing is just separating the ALS from BLS in the protocol book.... i feel like im studying one page, then searching and searching until i get to another BLS protocol page. Half of them state that BLS cant do much because we dont have the materials to even diagnose the patient (a big...

What garage are you out of... n. quincy? did you have andy as the training supervisor?

i think maybe people may have misunderstood my intentions. to those i flipped out on, sorry, im just wound tight right now... Im not arguing with how its offered or what advice people are giving, im just saying i didnt appreciate the advice is to step up my game and grow up. thats not what...

not snippy at all. if your advice is to step up your game to a new emt, then you shouldnt post. its not helpful. its counterproductive.

Because that was the only thing i kept double checking and was unsure about. Most of it was how they worded some questions.