Recent content by FiremanMike

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?

It’s because they’re wrong frequently and they don’t account for mimics (BBB, LVH, etc) and don’t pick up on the rarities (scarbosa, wellens syndrome, etc).. They’re right on the obvious ones, but the obvious ones are obvious to even the most rookiest of rookies..

I mean, haven’t they been technically AI since the first 12 leads came out with a diagnosis box?

As a part of your research I highly encourage you to look at Save A Warrior out of Ohio. I attended about a month ago and it was absolutely life changing. I’ve been dealing with my sh*t for 30 years and tried a variety of solutions, nothing has compared to the SAW experience.

It’s mostly big cities that’ll do this as they have their own academy or enough money to pay for the state program. That said, the wait for those jobs can be a long road. If you’re serious about this path, your best bet is to bite the bullet and put yourself through an academy. If you do...