Recent content by ho hum

Well then, scratch your neck. I'm telling the facts as I understand they happened and am preparing to discuss with both counties the MOU. I just wonder what I need to do to protect my base hospital as we are providing medical direction in a state where we do not have medical licenses and have...

To avoid being acused of being a troll I'll answer the questions in order. Although, I did provide most of the information in the scenario. 1. Single ambulance in a community of 1500 people staffed with EMT-P and EMT-B on each crew. 2. Single ambulance with three volunteer EMS personnel...

Here is a scenario from this situation: The community is 29 miles from its county seat and other ambulances. It has 3 people who live in the community. Two are EMT-I's and one is an EMT-B. They have one ambulance and their hospital that provides medical direction is 72 miles away. The...

Does that mean if a community does not have any EMS people available rather than being overwhelmed? We send our rig there and then leave our side of the line uncovered because they have not got anybody working in their volunteer department. Does Sally Medic get sued for a bad outcome in...

We are working on that. However, aren't mutal aid agreements more for dealing with disaster situations rather than day-to-day calls?

An EMS Coordinator in Arizona is the person (either an RN or EMT-P) assigned to the base hospital to provide oversight of EMS for that areas and units served by that base hospital. We are part of a regional council that works on protocols, standing orders, medication lists for med boxes, and so...

I am the pre-hospital coordinator for EMS in my subregion in Arizona. I am an RN and will be posting here for ideas and perspectives from the paramedic and EMT point of view.

Greetings, Our hospital is the base for a county that borders another state. The little community that is in the other state is 30 miles away from its county seat and only 4 miles away from the state line. The community sends its children to our state for school, receives its mail, shops...