Recent content by Martyn

https://www.abcactionnews.com/scripps-news-investigates-the-deadly-toll-of-a-us-ambulance-shortage

How times change...13 years ago when I qualified my course was 3 days a week for 5 months!!!

Medevac helicopter https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66623809

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/ambulance-carrying-a-patient-crashed

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64513781

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64226359

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/expanded-mental-health-care-for-first-responders

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/crisis-center-of-tampa-bay-working-to-fix-emt-shortage-in-community

Once a medic, always a medic...good luck to you in whatever path you choose

I can easily take my Raptors apart for 'deep cleaning'

A bit like making a firefighter an EMT or paramedic (can of worms now open)

In training I was taught that when you take a BP the normal way it is written 124/68, if you palpate a BP then it is written down 124/P... THEREFORE, NO DIASTOLIC! (Lowest BP I have ever taken was 54/P, little old lady who was AOx4 chatting away)

Ha ha...MBT are my initials. And no, I'm not built like one

OUCH...shot down in flames or what!

Sorry to be hard, and others have also mentioned this, is this the right job for you? Had a classmate back when I qualified get a job with Americare in Tampa, during transport pt went in to cardiac arrest and he panicked and just sat there doing nothing, the EMT driving had to swap out and get...