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I agree with everyone else. I once had an IFT where five minutes away from the transferring facility the guys o2 dropped to 65% and resp increased to around 32/min. He had COPD. This guys exact words were "can you help me breathe" I threw a bvm on 25lpm and started assisting him and turned...

Out here where I'm at people are just glad to have professionals to get any emergency care at all. And while we are just "basics"I wonder why people think that we can't do anything. Maybe passing on the grief they get from RNs for just being "medics" ;)

Where I am at it is within our scope to do BGL and they recently put it in Missouri state scope to place and transmit 12 leads. Someone (I already forgot who) said why let basics do 3 lead if there is no medic around. The reason for this is because you can give a print out to the ER so they...

That's true I work in our local emergency dept where 8 ambulances transport to. I imagine I could probably walk into any one of the 8 bases and have a job just because I've built a relationship with them and that is the best this you can do

I learned that you need to check the packets because the bls ift of the old man with chronic pneumonia is really old man with a aaa>two weeks and st elevation with elevated trope THAT DAY!!!! Lol

One of our other crews on duty on one of my shifts left our cot at the hospital lol. Never let em live it down either.

Why thank you? Lol ;)

As far as serrated edges go there are several kits with round sharpening stones on the market that are good. With convex edges you can get a knife pretty sharp but it is hard to do and your edge is more brittle because you have less meat. For most working knives a flat edge is the way to go

I make custom knives so I sharpen most of my knives with my belt grinder however the sharpener in the pic above I used to buy and sell them with my knives because I loved them so much. They are a very good sharpener. Other than that after my knives get dirty I wipe em down and put a little oil...

Yeah I Agree, and if your in a wilderness situation even with Leo why not have a wilderness trained emt to provide care. Also, if a hostage is having an mi or an asthma attack or whatever for one if they are still a hostage your probably not going to be providing any treatment and even if you...

Our transport times are always greater than 30 mins. I work a very rural service