Recent content by EMTswag

both the hospital-based EMS systems i work at use whentowork.com.... awesome platform, allows you to set up announcements, has an open tradeboard, submit availability, and the best part is you can see what truck and with who you are rostered to for the published schedule, as well as who is...

took a job 15-20 minutes away for a neuro transfer with the lights all in secondary... i was a rather confused driver the whole way there

Well there ya go... That's a lot of extrication power for just a one man crew

We may have a winner. Communication has always been a problem between our two services, especially in a third-service EMS system, and should absolutely be addressed as the root cause of most of the issues between our missions.

Agreed, but that doesn't mean it's the best option and thus shouldn't be something we just relegate to the sidelines saying "at least we have it in some form."

not necessarily entirely pointless. depending on what area and department your rescue comes from, you could have, and most have had, situations where extrication was done with no regard for the ems treatment goals or the pts condition, and only what was easier for the fd.

also a great point. in jersey up north is the only hospital-based EMS system rescue unit that i have ever heard of, UMDNJ's Rescue 1 in the city of Newark. But yes completely agree with the extrication being pt care centered and thus should be the responsibility of EMS. Moreover, perhaps the...

very good point. its not really a situation where EMTs on the ambulance are doing the cut so much as an EMS service has EMTs cross-trained as rescue techs who staff a rescue truck specifically to do rescue assignments. But I do see your point, scene safety is one of the most stressed thing in...

In one of the towns i work in, approx 30,000 people with two major highways passing through it, heavy rescue is done by two of the three volunteer fire companies and one of the two volunteer rescue squads. Per regulation in our state, any vehicle extrication utilizing heavy rescue tools require...

Be careful. A lot of places, at least in NJ, don't recognize vollie exp as actual experience.

Yup me and them would be having a nice private conversation about that

whoops i chalk that one up to having shift changes at 4am... all i read was emergency medical technicians and assumed they sent him BLS. My fault lol

Did he really get a BLS non emergent transfer? Shouldn't he have been sent SCTU emergent? That would have meant he had pedi MICNs or even a resp therapist with him, or even just tube him before he left?

Nothing will ever top my previous partner i dont think... every call ended with "Well i remember when this last happened to me..." go on a rant about how he saved the world from a meteor and end it with "Man, ive been doing this way way too long..." one day i decided to ask my 21 y/o...

unfortunately you are absolutely correct :/ what a shame because njoemscert was such a great website :rofl: i can't even imagine what abomination they will think up next