Recent content by FiremanMike

I’ll give them this much.. In the old days when ketamine and chemical restraint first hit the medic, we had a close relationship with our PD borne from past tragedy. They were good cops who knew when to hold back and also knew when it was time for the pain train. During those times, I have...

I’ll give you my own answers, but don’t use these as cheat codes.. keep developing your own practice. If I’m giving a breathing treatment and transporting, they’re getting solu medrol 100% of the time. If they’re complaining of nausea, they’re getting zofran. Zofran tends to be less effective...

Well developed and organized blended programs can be amazing and likely better than in-person. Unfortunately most blended education is nothing more than checking boxes and do very little to prepare anyone for anything..

I’d say the company who installed and maintains their suppression system is gunna be in the hot seat for a few minutes..

Honestly the risk of infection to the baby is pretty low, assuming you clamped correctly.. that tissue is dying almost immediately and there really shouldn’t be any bacterial transmission to the body..

There is only about 0.5ML in a j-loop an about 5-8cc in the entire IV tubing depending on how long in it..

Cabbage cases were the rage in my area of the country when I started (1998)

My apologies, I genuinely thought you were RescueMedic.

I would have thought your break from here and name change would be your opportunity to take a breath and stop posting like such a pompous, condescending ***. Clearly I was ignorant with that line of thinking.

Long shot here.. Does anyone have knowledge on how to obtain a Pennsylvania prehospital RN license (or cert?). I tried googling it and what I found was related to RNs who don’t already have a paramedic card.. I have a compact RN license and am working on getting my Pennsylvania medic card...

Yeah NYC is weird in general. I really only ever dug into it when my wife and I got hooked on Blue Bloods so I did some limited google surfing about their setup.

I think the biggest confusion is that we equate commissioner with chief an it’s not that. Both FDNY and NYPD have respective chiefs who rose though the ranks and have relevant operational experience..

the commissioner role in that environment is entirely administrative, essentially the CEO of multimillion dollar business, same for NYPD - an agency where a huge number of commissioners have absolutely zero law enforcement experience. A good commissioner has a solid staff of chiefs with...

I believe they get a lot of requests for info. If they recommend you come into a cohort to learn for yourself, I'd suggest you take them up on it.

Well that’s certainly interesting, wonder if it will speed up or slowdown the EMS un-merger?