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I know offhand that type I cases are usually benign. Have you talked to a neurologist, or at least your primary care physician, about it?

Too many times to count. We know the reporting parties as "cell phone heroes".

Hi all. I'm moving down to Houston in May/June of this year and I'd like to find a 911 EMS agency to work PRN or volunteer at. As a little background, I'll be a third-year medical student when I move, interested in emergency medicine and EMS. I've been a paramedic since 2007 and worked on a...

My last system did this Alpha: EMS non-emergent, dispatched first responders in outlying areas only (also non-emergent). Bravo: EMS code 3. Dispatched first responders only in outlying areas (also code 3). Charlie/Delta/Echo: EMS code 3, first responders code 3 (everywhere in the county).

He basically covered it. I worked for MCHD for a year and know folks at MCHD and HCEC. I'd recommend all the same places. MCHD and HCECs would be my top picks. I did some student shifts at HCEC there and it was definitely a gun and knife club type place. Lots of trauma, overdoses, MVAs, etc...

Thanks so much!

I'm starting up a student organization that provides volunteer BLS coverage for campus and community events at my university. I've got the go ahead from the powers that be but now the biggest hurdle is getting funding to buy the equipment. <_< Do any of you fine folks have experience with...

Latest word is 2 paramedics deceased, 6 firefighters deceased, 15 citizens deceased although I'm sure that number will rise as crews search damaged structures. 100-200 patients, 40 were critical.

Got a thread going here: http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=35181&page=4

Off Bledsoe's Facebook wall: 2 EMS providers reported dead on KTVT by the EMS medical director in West (George Smith, DO)

Oh no... :ph34r:

I'm pimping out my class to donate blood at Carter BloodCare.

I'm thinking blood drive and money.

TCOM. I will definitely let you know. A blood drive would be great. Not sure how to do that. Would we all drive down there and donate? Donate locally and they'd get it down there?

I'm at med school about 70 miles north. Trying to figure out something my class can do to help.