Recent content by Keens

Kempo, Sorry lol. I remember people saying that and I'd always laugh to myself about SFO being "Northern" Cali, but I spent 4 years in Humboldt Bay at the CG Air Station. THAT'S north to me. lol. Take care. BLS, I am not employed in EMS but about to start my EMT-B course next week. I'm...

Kempo, If you're talking about Humboldt, I'd heard that there are often conflicts with many of the rescuer certs especially between Arcata and Eureka. Since I wasn't directly involved with them at the time I don't know. But knowing Arcata, it wouldn't surprise me.

Wow, did this thread really turn into a spell checker column? Here in Atlantic County (NJ), the only prereq for EMT-B is CPR. And back in GA I can't say I've ever heard of CFR for anything other than the lifeguards. But who knows.

Well said lightsandsirens. I probably should come up with some better background knowledge but again, I spent 10 years in the CG and while training was nice to have, it was OJT that really did the trick. There's nothing in mech training that prepares you for decapitated bodies, dead children, or...

Different instructors are gonna teach different things for better or worse. That's a fact of life. Like I said, some people may think it's more important to check for one thing before another. You won't ever agree. All you can do is state your opinion and move on.

Whether or not it is a waste time (until I get some schoolin I wouldn't know), I can assume from Code 3's post that at least thinking outside the box is a good practice. When I was with the CG, I would train people to to look deeper into the discrepancies on the helos. Sometimes what we...

Thanks for the info so far (though I was a little lost on Code 3's, I really am that green.) I found out also that an EMT-B does alot less than I thought. CG EMT does more than a B does which is good news to me. I'd rather get used to the basics.

Hi all, I start EMT training next week and was wondering if anyone had any insight or advice to a peon in the field. I'm going in completely green (aside from my CG experience but I was a flight mechanic so...). I'm pretty excited about it but thought I'd get some info from all of you. Any...