Recent content by Rykielz

Nova1300- I've been finishing up some last minute Christmas shopping so I'm just now checking the thread. That sounds like an interesting theory but it's probably one of the last things i'd have been thinking about on the call just because the assessment findings were pointing so strongly...

MS Medic, yeah I just listed what the monitor interpreted because I did not disagree with the reading. The monitor's been about 99% accurate for me when I can get the patient to stay completely skill while laying flat, which this guy was perfect for. Just got a couple updates on the patient for...

ERDoc- I couldn't agree with you more. I'm choosing to believe that they didn't have all of the information before jumping to that conclusion... otherwise God help whoever has that medic/EMT treating them at a critical time. Both our fire departments and ambulance companies don't have...

ERDoc, I pretty much gave it away by telling you guys the temperature haha; that was my guess from the beginning. Various medics and EMTs that I work with, who saw the pt come in, tried to make a case for hypothermia as to the reason why he was so hypotensive... except hypotension caused by...

RN to paramedic in California only requires proving that the RN course you took meets DOT standards for the paramedic curriculum (should be included in the syllabus or graduation certificate), taking a paramedic refresher (the same one used by the NREMT), EMT, or MICN course, completing an ALS...

Akulahawk - The BGL was taken from the flash of blood in the IV. Some additional info that might add something to the conversation in the meantime, after the third 1,000cc isotonic NS bag drained to approximately 10%, at the hospital, the IV line backfilled quickly with blood. It was at this...

MS Medic, there was half-a-box elevation in leads I, II, III, and avL in the ST-segment. All of the V leads though were normal. The T-wave itself appeared to be elongated by about twice what it should have been. Sorry I didn't count the boxes for the duration to provide you with better info...

I ran probably one of the strangest calls in my short 10-year EMS career today and I want some opinions on what could have been done differently and/or what your treatments would have been and why. Story: The call came in as a fall around 12:45 on a sunny day with no wind and an outside...

This is for AMR Riverside. I applied in late September, took the test in early December, got a call for an interview 2 weeks later, second interview a week after that, and was hired a little more than a month after that. All in all it took 5 months from the day I applied.

If you're going nursing or something in-hospital, then Pacific or another IFT company might be the way to go. But otherwise you wanna be doing 9-1-1.

You know who runs Lifeline right? The people who got fired from Pacific Ambulance when Rural/Metro took over.

Maybe this is what that nurse in Bakersfield, CA, who refused to do CPR after she called 9-1-1, was thinking.

Based on their contracts they have to keep a certain number of cars available in each city at all times. Also EMT's have a high turnover rate here, so it's something that's unavoidable. OT is necessary, double time is just poor planning.

Anything over 12 is double time. It's a cost-cutting measure.

Medic school is a lot of memorization. So obviously the more you know going in, the easier certain parts will be. What I really struggled with was learning ECG's and 12-leads. I spent a huge amount of time trying to learn it and I feel it was definitely one of those things I should've spent more...