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bingo!!!!

Question: If you are not on duty and you stop to render aid. And you render none, how can you claim good Samaritan law. You should never have stopped to begin with! But now that you have stopped you have committed yourself by laying hands on a pt.

Reaper you still don't get what I'm talking about. I never said we should flog every dead body we come across. There are the exceptions to the rule. Reaper why wouldn't you work a trauma code on an obvious dead person? You would work one a regular code? Is the pt not obviously dead? Whats the...

Veneficus, I agree with everything you have written. The only thing I'm trying to stress is that unless we make that effort, the truth will never be know except someone died and fell into that 98% range. I would much rather know that my sister, brother, mom or dad died after every effort or...

Reaper you missed the point! That I was trying to make without actually spelling it out. I am one of those that did get into it to do medicine and to make every effort I possibly can and know how to help sustain life. Do we save them all? Hell no we don't. Will we save them all? Hell no we...

I was taught I had a duty to act. And that no matter how cold they are,they are not dead until warm and dead pronounced by a doctor. The only time I will not start CPR or resuscitation efforts is if the have decapitation, rigor and levidity or an injury that is not sustainable to life. AKA GSW...

Welcome steven, Im from Tn. I dont post often but read alot.

Brings backup the way we were taught, Medical was taught 60 gtt tubing for every thing except for Abdominal pain and significant Chest pains and Respitory distress's and Hypoglycemia. I remember the day's we carried 1000 ml bags of D5W and eveyone got that unless it was trauma. Now D5W is used...

I have much to write I will post it in a few days!

Then you would know of tiffany bible the first paramedic on the scene at oklahoma bombing who testified under oath and in court documents that when she arrived on scene as the first unit that ATF was already dressed in bomb gear!!! 5 minutes after the call she arrived! It takes almost 30 minutes...

seems like that gator orange went back to fla black and blue tonight

Welcome to EMS it is the most two-faced,Back-bitting, throat -slashing business Ihave ever been in! Take care of your partner when you get a good one!

Divine wind the reason they wont change it is because there is still one member who will not vote to change the law it goes way back to when ems in tn started they were all UT VOL fans every board member and they all voted on this it has not changed since that time! Another reason was to keep...

An analogy Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easier to get. The...

We use the state of tn protocols. you can find them here it is a pdf file. http://www2.state.tn.us/health/ems/PDF/Protocols.pdf