Recent content by medictmfl

Statistically traumatic arrest pt's stay dead and should be left as such, protocols permitting. Check this out if you have time/access: Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care: October 2011 - Volume 71 - Issue 4 - pp 997-1002 Here is the abstract: Background: The...

Careful with the "online" format. I was thinking of taking the same route but after a little research I found that many states will not grant a license to graduates from these programs. Make sure the program has actual clinical rotations as this is the problem most states have with online...

oops I missed this part earlier... If this is where your passion is don't let any of us dummies talk you out of it, dive in head first, as an instructor i can tell you the profession needs more people who feel like this.

my two cents vene and schulz have covered most of the ground that needs covering but I'm opinionated and emtlife has given me a soapbox (plus I need 5 posts before I can send PM's) so here you go. I have been in EMS since '96 and a PM for 7 years and loved every second of it, even the really...

I need to learn this trick, maybe it's a special cuff... and to think I've been wasting all this time with 12-leads and right-sided EKG's. If your really quiet you can hear the people at the AHA die inside a little every time someone says stuff like this $100 says these same individuals...

not all of them Kern, Riverside/San Bernardino Counties are actually pretty good. But for the most part your absolutely right. I know EMT-I's that are more rounded providers than some medics* in certain counties in SoCal, I won't mention them specifically but it starts with an L and ends...

The one that gets you a P-card I loved my experience at Daniel Freeman, that being said LA County is falling way behind in the EMS world (don't tell them that it would make Johnny and Roy cry) and unless you can get on with a municipal FD you will be the most over trained taxi driver on the...