Recent content by lex

I wonder how many of us that is true for. I know that certainly played a part in my getting into the "business" but this last week or so I'm just not sure it's enough to keep me coming back. What is it that makes you fine with that? Or it that just something that is? Even "just being the...

Don't get me wrong, I love my job, or at least I usually do, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't, but I've had a couple of really rough days and I've been laying in bed trying to remember why it is that we put up with all the crap, and the pain and the heartache that we can see in this business...

I've finally finalized the time off work and have book the tickets. I'm heading to New York, New York for a week in August! While I'm down there in addition to seeing the sights I would love to see/find out more about how the EMS system works. Whenever I travel I try to get a little bit of a...

Hey all. I was approached today by a teacher at the local elementary school looking for us to come and do a presentation to her class about what we do in the ambulance. I have a great set of resources but being that I recently moved it all got packed up and stuck into storage. We're...

While it depends on just how sick you are, I think a lot of it also depends on where you work and how many people you've got on staff to potentially cover for you. I fully expect to be torn apart by some of our members for my choices here, but I am sure that I am not alone in my experience...

Aside from agreeing that you definately have to be careful making physical contact with anyone, but otherwise it sounds like you handled the situation very well. I know I have steped on hospital staff members toes, and on a couple of occasions the cops, when it comes to my patients wellfare...

As I mentioned in another comment calling medical control never even crossed my mind, but I will definately make not to remember this for future reference. Your decision above makes perfect sense. Is this a decision that your protocols allow you to make or is this a decision that you have...

Had the monitor not told us shock advised I expect that we could have concluded that the 'blip' was artifact. Upon looking at the rest of the print out after arriving at the hospital there was definately a stretch of about six seconds of what definately looked like V. Fib. before the shock was...

Another very valid point. Unfortunately, until our protocols can find a way to differentiate between these as well as we as care providers can, and until all providers are willing to open their minds and think for themselves this is something that I don't see changing. As someone who is...

Great questions, and definately ones that I have been asking myself all week. Thank you for asking them, I look forward to hearing what others have to say on this front as well. A cardiac arrest is a brutal thing for anyone to go through, especially when the likelyhood of the resuscitation...

Wow! This is why I love this forum. I figured that this situation couldn't be totally unique but despite asking around local EMS circles just got looked at like we were completely nuts. I am assuming that after the patient was called that no more interventions were being performed. How did...

Sounds eerily familliar to a case that was all over the Canadian air waves about two years ago. Tried to find some articles to post links but didn't have any luck hunting them down. A man was found outside of City Hopsital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan a few minutes before the ER opened for the...

Definately some great insight, thanks all! Here's hoping I can put it to good use!

I've been questioning and second guessing myself over a call that my partner and I ran earlier this week. The questions are at the very end if anyone cares to respond but does not wish to read the back story. Thanks in advance! We were called for an unresponsive patient, breathing status...

At the end of an interview potential employers usually if you have any questions, so my question to all of you is, what kind of questions do you typically ask? What information would you consider being essential to know before accepting a position with a new service?