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I am looking for some additional training to present to my EMTs that work me. We are an EMS agency based out of the city jail that handles drug/alcohol/psych AMS detainment. Anyone know of a good class, video series, power-point presentation or certification that deals with alcohol and drug...

WhenToWork looks awesome for what we need. Right now we use Excel spreadsheets and I would love to change it...

Excited delirium, yes. In fact, I just sent a guy to jail for a long time for assaulting me last night. Violence is ramping upwards in the city due to flooding of Spice and bath salts. Currently we have plastic trauma masks, which are kinda like paintball masks that you can don quickly to...

If you read the statue, we have detainment authority for 12 hours. The key here is due to the reading of the law, we deal a lot with people taking Spice, Bath Salts, etc and wandering around. Pretty much any AMS patient in the city that can't give a valid address to go anywhere or that doesn't...

No, the law says if you are intoxicated by alcohol or drugs you can be placed into protective custody by peace officers or emergency services patrol. It is a very standard "non-criminal behavior" patrol that picks up those who are dangerous to themselves or others...

Plus, learn how to write.

Basically, we are kinda like a homeless services police/ems task force. Kinda. We are tasked with enforcing Alaska Statue Title 47, which means we pick up individuals in public places that are intoxicated by alcohol, AMS due to drugs or generally AMS in public and is a danger to themselves or...

I am the lead commander at the agency with my own office and desk but I still am hands-on enough where I am getting dirty. If the floor (our detention facility/clinic) is rioting, it is an all-hands on deck incident. No one wants to wear white at all here and our city FD/EMS guys don't even wear...

Believe me, as someone who just took over operations side of an (very small, specialized) agency there is a lot that goes into it. You need tons of experience and a dedicated team to make this work....

OP here. We've looked at jumpsuits but since we are more of public enforcement agency, there is no need to do the whole "dress at night" thing. Biggest concern is uniforms that last, since we get into scuffles all the time here and I find normal EMS gear is ripping when subduing detainees...

Hopefully this is the correct place... I am currently restructuring my agency and one area I am changing is our uniforms. I wanted to get people's opinions on issued uniforms. Currently we use crappy Flying Cross and Propper uniform EMS Pants and duty shirts. Because we deal with mostly medical...

This is why DMATs are structured to be established like a BAS. As a National Guard combat medic, a lot of our training is pretty applicable in disaster training. Plus the military can do the logistics side as well. I agree logistics makes all the difference in the world. But having people who...

Yea, it is. I am not sure how to find the course. Not sure why anyone would not want to do a basic refresher on some ICS stuff and triage. It is free and gets you some CMEs. Who cares if it isn't end-all, be-all? Free is free and some basic education that you might get will never hurt.

Errr, it is free course and recommended by many DMATs as wells as the NDMS? And my DMAT requires it? The State Emergency Prepardness and Homeland Security Office recommends all EMS personnel volunteering for disaster response be certified in at least BDLS as well as all the ICS stuff and DCEMP.

Anyone having any problems registering for the Basic Disaster Life Support online course through NDLSF? I do the catalog search after I am registered and it keeps showing nothing in the listings.