Recent content by Sophie

Bump. No one is training? No ideas?

How did you even get the fish in it? :P

I have to agree with both prior replies. You know what really makes me sick? Someone spitting. That annoys the heck out of me and I have told patients who intentionally spit in the back of the ambulance to clean it up before they go into the hospital. Trauma doesn't get to me but spit...

Sorry everyone. I initially posted this in another section. I am a paramedic working in the mid-west. I have been in EMS over 21 years and a paramedic now for 19. I love my job but took a different position 3 years ago and feel my ALS education and training is suffering. Not just for me but...

Strike3, could you share that study that you're talking about because we have a rather large controversy here regarding this.

Read this month's edition of JEMS. The same author was at the National EMS Expo in Baltimore and presented on the exact same thing and it is evidenced based. Morphine increased the mortality of the patient by 13%. They want Bipap and Cpap used prehospital (which some medical directors do...

Thanks for the replies. This fire dept. to me is an "up and coming" and the civilian medic program is less then five years in the making. We should be further along then what we are but we are getting there.....Let me give you some hx and maybe this can explain the situation a little...

I work part time for an ED. The EMT-Basics are allowed to start IV's and draw blood which is not within their scope of practice. When I inquired our state EMS Commission about this, I was advised the hospital takes on the liability of this employee. The hospital though is supposed to provide...

Speaking of MONA, you're going to start seeing protocols change in the near future. Morphine is going by the wayside, especially in CHF patients. Evidenced based research is showing it's doing more damage then good.

Hi! I am new to this website and only found it due to searching for EMS information on Google. I am stumped. I am a civilian paramedic in the midwest currently working for a fire dept. Recently, we had a hiring process for a civilian paramedic and only received 10 applications. Not only...