Recent content by joeyjoejoe

For some reason I couldn't edit, bit this was my thing... EDIT - Before anyone comments...You are risking more lives by having a helicopter attend and having the world attend. This is a simple and obvious blunt trauma arrest. You should have put the leads on him and called a doc. Blunt trauma...

He's dead, why would you even start? It is a futile resusitation. Golden hour? You're joking right?

1) I'm not a big guy. I don't work out. I get by, working in a busy service. I don't wear a back brace. 2) I work only 12 hour shifts on a constant schedule. Though never more than 5 days in a row. 3) Trauma shears, pen, pen light, gloves, Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia. I don't wear a belt, it...

Meh, these things happen all the time. The pseudo injury that ended up being an assault, or (certainly less often) the person shot that wasn't evident in the dispatch details. The anecdotal stories of the Alpha abdo pain turning into the "crazy psych guy". For dispatching, we use I assume a...

I work in a single paramedic response (city) unit with all the drugs/equip that would normally be carried on a transport unit. Normally, I only respond to calls that fire would come to as well (tiered response). However, there are often times where I get there before fire or "volunteer" to go...