Recent content by klogerg

i worked all day, no interesting calls, went home went to bed. lol, sorry, not nearly as exciting a story as yours.

Yeh, I'm a real hoot. funny aside to all of this, the person i worked with today was amazd that I wore my seatbelt. Not to put this thread off topic, but any thoughts from anyone?

If your in your POV, before or after work, you are a private citizen, you are no longer anyone special, just another person "livin the dream". Personally, I almost never speed in my POV, no need. As for at work, nothing is worth risking my own safety. I remember when i first started EMS about...

there are a couple of good points in this thread, first of all....yes, paramedics can get away with quite a bit. Secondly, yes, HR and timekeepers can be quite the A$%holes. but think of it like this, the people whose responsibility it is to keep track of all the hours and who gets paid what...

i think its awesome you all are talking about pusle ox as a basic. My company wont let basics have pulse ox. it sucks

I'd like to say thank you to everyone who responded, this is why i joined this forum. As for abandonment, since its an assisted living, and not a skilled nursing facility, the pt. is, theoretically, capable of caring for him/herself, albeit with some difficulty, neccesitating an assisted living...

Welll, we operate in that exact fashion. To answer the other posts questions, upon arrival at the patients bedside the NC was off, as he was eating, that was when the initial sat was obtained, mid 80's. Part of the problem with assisted living facilities is there is usually no RN or other...

There was basically no paperwork to be taken back to the facility with the pt. No official orders, for o2 or anything else. I called my supervisor, who agreed with my plan of action. It can be very frustrating, but I guess thats why the company is constantly hammering us with the "proper...

A lot of my job as a EMT-B is basic transport. Today we transported an elderly male to an assisted living facility from a hospital. The pt. had come into the hospital for "generalized pain". The pt's pulse ox was 86% on room air, 94% on 2LPM via NC. The report I recieved from the nurse was...

As a basic, I do mostly transport. Crews do it differently, but company ploicy is to shut the truck off and lock the doors. Now, there is a service in our area that has 3 sets of keys per truck/crew. One set stays in the ignition with the truck always running, the other keys are with the...

The way i see it, the number one thing we were always taught in school was crew safety. Number one responsibility is to ourselves, no matter what the call, or who the patient. I'm not sayign I always drive completely within the letter of the law all the time on the job...I'm sayign i should...

Welcome aboard!!!!

Yes sir. We picked up the providence contract recently becasue of amr leaving.

sorry, ryder, i didnt read your post as carefully as i thought. I do agree with you, there should be standards to get into the class. But then again, what do you do for people who academically may not be as adept as they should be, but have phenomenal skills, and are just as good with the...

Well, i suppose it depends on what type of service you are in. I do mostly transports(the only thing that keeps private servicves going), and for those it seems silly to spend the money to buy, fuel, and maintain a type III. For BLS tansfers, a Van is quite sufficient....in my humble opinion...