Recent content by HeatStroke

So do they actually have a scale based off of experience? Because RM in AZ pretty much just gives you 13.74/hr no matter what.

Transported a pt who was diagnosed w/ liver cancer the other day. Liver was palpable and skin/eyes were fully jaundiced. Prior to transferring care to me, the:glare: pt was given 1mg hydromorphone IV for pain. En route pt developed pretty bad itching to the point where she looked completely...

That was cool I liked it. Gonna have to share that.

I was just wondering about what you guys thought about it. It's not that I desperately want to drive, it's just that being told I'm not allowed to sucks is all.

Sorry I just changed it, I made my account about 2 years ago or so when I was an EMT

Hey all, I don't post much but I do read the forum quite a bit. After finally graduating and being certified for about 2 months I got a job with a large urban EMS company. The only caveat is that I'm not allowed to drive the ambulances because of my 2 speeding tickets in the past 3 years...

ACLS says witnessed arrests get defibrillated immediately

From what I learned in ACLS, antidysrythmics like lido and amio are only given post ROSC if they were used to convert the patient. Say, for example, I do a round of CPR, Defib, Epi, then the patient gets ROSC before the bolus of Amiodarone, no Amiodarone maintenance drip is indicated. That's...

Yes EMT-B's make roughly 9.75/hr full time w/ minimal benefits working for one of those private gigs.

It was the second day of class and we were practicing giving IM, SC, and Intradermal injections. I did fine physically giving the injections, but on the IM injection I made a loud "OOOOOOH S***" sound when I went into my fellow class mates arm. I did that 2 out of the 3 times I did it. I didn't...

69 and I passed. I swear I thought the test kicked my ***.

I use the spyderco sharpmaker. works like a charm on even crappy knives and makes em shaving sharp. It gets a little tricky on blades longer than like 6 inches.

I carry a Leatherman Wave. It's a little heavy I'd recommend a little smaller one even though the Wave isn't that big at all compared to some other Leathermans. I carry it with a pocket clip I got seperately, the knife opens one handed from the outside.

study all the time and make sure to ask a lot of questions. Start doing ride alongs now so you get comfortable taking accurate sets of vitals

We used this book in school. Yeah I found a couple typos in it too like using "a" instead of "an", and things of that nature. I thought it was good though. We used the 10th edition but I think the 9th edition's website is better and has better tools to learn with.