Recent content by EMTAlex209

Our company uses the stryker power pro's. It's like heaven on your back. My back issues have disappered. It's like working a six hour shift instead of a twelve. They are expensive but worth it. New upgrades on them as well.

If having fluffy ride along to the hospital is going to make the patient feel better, oh well. Nothing usually we can do when patient is upset other than telling them, "it's going to be ok." etc. Then let the hospital deal with it. Whatever gets me off scene faster.

Tcert, nice tat on the shoulder. Like the tribal influence.

I personally suffer from Anxiety. As BS as it sounds. I've had it since being a child, been taking Klonopin since I was 16. So my EMS crazy life-style as not helped it in a way. Yet I'm completely addicted to my career and deal with my anxiety on a shift to shift basis, and call to call basis as...

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Birth in a Kenworth Ah yes, what a pleasant expierence. HAHA. First delivery was in the back of a Kenworth in a sleeper cab in black light. Probably where the baby was concieved as well. Actually....not a bad place to have a baby, except for being sterile it was cool and calm. The only problem...

Typical dispatch......

The only people who know where all the units are, are the field crews. Not dispatch. Nothing really excites you anymore on scene. We have the weirdest slang terms in any profession.

GCS for adults and children. Rule of nines. normal vitals for age specific patients. trauma scores. hope that helps.

It's very difficult for a spouse who has no idea what "we" do in general. It's just plain difficult and useless to try and vent to them as they don't percieve or understand what it is we quite do. My suggestion to you that is having the problem with the wife is take her on a ride-along. That...

Cooling your Ambulance Depending on your make and model. Most have an high idle option. Put your up front AC on high and your rear AC the same. Should be good to go when you get back in on scene.