Recent content by joeyCC

switch lives with me. it's never that easy on me. i do 'em right. just don't want to most of the time. too anal about it. i would have made that another 6 lines of info. i also cant use TOT.

the towel boys was for someone else, sorry about that. wasnt clear. but again - work in a big city where about 4% of the buildings below 8 stories actually have elevators. I have to follow protocol and orders. I'd rather not lose my cert that allows me to practice my career. If protocol says...

Your bus have air conditioning? You have hands to get temp? You have a uniform on to keep warm? If you have all three, roll. Don't you-know-what around with a kid's temp in his kitchen while his brain melts.

i hope i don't get shot. I'm beginning to understand why people can't come to NY and work start work if they're a NREMT. Setting NYC protocol aside, NY state protocol are extensive and very specific. Getting down to NYC is craziness. NYS...

To this day, I suck at writing a PCR. Partner does it while I deal with Pt. unless it's a birth. she does it. :rolleyes:

Last one, when you are carrying someone with a suspected spinal injury down 5 flights of stairs and you know that applying a board takes 2 or 3 minutes, where do you find the harm? \ I'm guessing NY just has pretty high standards for BLS care.

and you can't tell me that a board wouldn't be in our knowledge base in BLS. we're not towel boys.

I don't have a choice in NY to decide weather or not to backboard. it's state protocol for most instances. That list is what I was able to admin as a basic in NYC. I'm AEMT CC now in Suffolk and Nassau (long island) so my protocols are different and i ride ALS. Smooth rides don't exist...

nonononononono SO wrong. As a basic, I'm now CC, I've administered Medication - glucose tabs, epipen, nitro, activated charcoal [can't in NY anymore... i think], MDI, albuterol, HiCon O2 [yes - it's a medication], and EMT-B can now administer IN Noloxone here. It's not CC or Medic...