Recent content by Lisa

mE 34 y/o f.... Married for 7 yrs to a Cop. 3 kids, our 4 legged daughter passed away in Nov, so no pets as of right now. Love to read, cross stitch, and shuttle the kids around and ocassional date night with hubby! EMT for almost 4 yrs. Looking to go back to school for my RN.

Me See if this works..... Me with Tony...Lead singer of Big Engine!

Gloves I live in a rural are and we always have plenty of people on a scene to help. Especially if it's a MVA, CPR, etc. It drives me absolutely nuts for our "helpers" to throw their gloves in the floor of my truck AFTER I have just got done cleaning it!!!

Lesson Never ever say your'e bored while on duty! This will lead to a MVA with mutiple fatalities and mutiple fly outs! Always look in the "run book" to see how many runs the shift before you had. How many they had directly effects how many runs you will have.

Pass the info Kevin- If you gtet any info about the company pass it on if you don't mind.I'm looking t move back to the Knox area around January and was thinking about applying there. Thanks Lisa

Talked with the pt myself yesterday. He is still in the hospital and he says "they are getting him straightened out" He was not very forthcoming with his DX. To my knowledge that shunt had not been used yet as they were arranging his dialysis. Didn't think he would tell me a whole lot...

P.s Oh yeah... No evidence of head trauma and he was RSI in the field.

Last I heard We all know how HIPPA laws are but the last time I heard this pt DID NOT have a bleed!! That was what my money was on too, flight crew says CT scans were normal and so were all the other test,(not sure what all they did) The only thing that hadn't come back yet was his tox screen...

Dispatched to a 39 yo male, Diabetic Emergency. First Responders arrive on scene and report pt is incoherent, BP 214/104, R 14 and labored, Pulse 114. They are also reporting pt had a shunt placed in the Rt arm approx 4 weeks ago. HX of MI x 2, HTN, IDDM, Hep C, renal failure. Arrive on scene...

What part of TN?

Creepy Had one just a few weeks ago.... 69yo f c/o shortness of breath and chest pain. The address is on the other side of the county so we have FR toned out. They arrive on scene give us a report... I'm running emergency traffic, and 2 blocks from the address I top the hill and see blue lights...

Not so funny... Went in to work my regular 24 hr shift. My partner is sick and calls in a part timer. He is affectionaly know as the ":censored::censored::censored::censored: magnet". We go along talking, checking off the truck ect... In walks a EMT student who starts saying this is her 2nd...

Rsi My service has a protocol for it and it gets used! Most services around my area also have protocol for it. Very rural area.... sometimes 25 min to the closest hospital and even then it is not a Level 1 Trauma center. Closest trauma center is about a 12-18 min flight. The service I work for...

Wow!!! We have one 24 hr truck for the whole county! Average around 2000 a yr. Some days we run1 some days 8! I ran 9 calls one time and thought I was going to fall out!! LOL Kudos to those of you that run so many!!

Looks like a heart attack but we won't know for sure till the atopsy is done.