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My favorite is when I get a call from a nurse saying "the patient is desaturating, come quick." I look at the pleth and its pretty much a straight line, then I touch the patients finger and its ice cold. Pt is in no distress, vitals are normal, I then place the probe on the patients ear and...

I could maybe understand the cpap for a CHF patient, but for COPD, probably not. Typically you would use a Bipap or no more than 28% O2 for your copd patient. The reason is, most COPD's have an obstructive component (emphysema), which basically causes you to air trap and retain high CO2 levels...

Wonder if you need orders to give those meds in space? :P

I used to be scared to death before I went through school, but they teach you what you need to know, and your field experience will be where you start to feel real confident. Just make sure to find a good program. You'll do fine, just make sure your heart is there.

I'm not sure where you live, but here in CA you can use your hours as an emt towards a PA program, however; you typically need 2-3 years full time. Best of luck to you.

As a former AMR employee here in california, they now make you start off on BLS calls for 6 months before you can go over to ALS. The only exception to that rule is you may pick up overtime as an ALS shift. Not sure if its the same in Florida or not though, or if that was just with my division.

Care ambulance is always hiring.

I can't say that i've ever nebulized bicarb, then again i'm in the ICU most of the time. I'll ask around tomorrow.

Very Kind of you, lol.

If you witness someone code, there's not much you can do as an EMT-B anyways other than CPR, unless of course you carry around an AED with you. Not worth buying in my opinion. Average fire dept. response time is something like 6 mins, just let them do their job. Maybe keep a pocket mask and some...

I have the following: Skyscape, Medscape, Pocket RN, Instant ECG, and ACLS.

Thanks for your input B)

I started out as an EMT-B, went to Respiratory school, and now i'm considering going back and doing medic school so I can be an RT/EMT-P. I'd like to work as a flight medic, since flight RT jobs seem non existant here in southern california. My question is, how difficult would medic school be...