Recent content by retarmyeng06

Quoted PoeticInJustice - -Failure to check PMS before or after splinting. (THIS) -Failure to check PMS after securing patient on spine board. -Excessively moving an immobilized patient. -Not voicing considering C-Spine and directing precautions to be taken if needed. -Medical...

All good suggestions for a person who is not a SAFETY risk to themselves, their partner, and their patient and I could not agree more that this is a prudent course of action. But some issues, safety being the number one, cannot be ignored, glossed over, or quietly written up to form a paper...

Be a good listener sincere compasionate considerate respectful firm flexible their champion While there is no replacement for experience these soft skills are your best tools when working with a psych pt.

Whatever happened to responder safety being the #1 priority? Assuming scene safety was considered on arrival at the scene then it remains the best place to work a code unless an unforeseen event intervenes. In which case loading and moving to a safe location where CPR can be resumed is the next...

Buy, buy, buy, says I! :rolleyes: Have spent the last 30 years wearing various brands of boots and none, bar none, are as good as Haix IMHO. I have a hard time with the width of most steel toe boots; usually sacrificing fit for the sake of comfort in the toe box. The Haix I wear, don't...

A mortician; the dead don't argue! :P

Not an anomaly... My .02 cents and nothing more... I am a Male firefighter/EMT and have witnessed this type of behavior especially from older men and women and occassionally from others as well. From my perspective I believe it is a generational issue with the older folks; as for the others...