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Your oxygen supplier can provide you with a cascade style yoke so you don’t simply equalize the pressure between the two.

We would use them primarily for shorter transports, patients primarily on BiPAP. It’s not often that we intubate and ventilate patients in the field, we’re just not that service. But, we would certainly use the vent in that case, as opposed to just bagging a patient to the hospital. We don’t do...

Great info. Thanks.

Hamilton T1 or Zoll Zvent. Real life pros and cons. We are getting demos of both.

Yes. I’m a Zoll fan. I bought them at my previous service to replace a fleet of aging MRx monitors and at my current agency to replace lifepak 15s. The Zoll vs Stryker debate is the same as Ford vs Chevy. You’ll never change anybody’s mind.

It’s on the side. It now turns on as soon as you plug it in, but it’s massimo capno, not oridion. The pouches aren’t a separate case like the current version, they “click lock” directly to the device.

It’s called the Zenix and it has a touchscreen and a knob/dial like the Lifepak. (WTF! They listened) Same basic size as an X series, which will still be produced, and has a redesigned printer, better capnography and some other really nice features. Looks pretty awesome. I only saw the flyer...

We do it. Paramedic is 2 years.

Happy as clams. But thanks for asking.

I just made my own. Wasn’t difficult.

It’s a moot point. I switched my agency to Zoll.

We just bought our HazMat truck from a builder in Washington state. We paid a guy to drive it out to PA for us. He stopped and took pics at the tourist spots along the way.

It was the day my CT Cert arrived in the mail. Person down. Turned out to be a dead person. Had been dead for several days. Welcome to EMS.

I’ve been pretty fascinated by the role AI is starting to play in healthcare. I use it regularly—mostly for data analysis, spotting trends, and cleaning up or rewriting complicated documents that need to be sharp and accurate. AI’s strength really lies in its ability to synthesize the...

It is…but it’s really nice. We even have one of those nugget ice makers. I’m spoiled.