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closest 2 are ours (SJA0 furthest two are local NHS service ) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1087871&id=717056974 current newest toy until the mercedes Frontline ambulance arrives http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=717056974#/photo.php?pid=1087867&id=717056974

OK folks , ridryder and ventmedic have talked a lot of sense in this thread topical ABx forget it if you want to stick anything in the wound stick some honey in ! or the shavings off a silver dollar ! because long before topical ABX - dressings containing honey or silver will be used...

more than a battery if it broke the skin, try 'wounding' , 'actual bodily harm ' etc etc etc... differnet places have different names for it ... yep i'd agree there HR and union rep probably not relevent given it's a college campus group , to the OP is this all volunteer and are both...

tyler the sprinter is the vehicle to have anywhere else in the civilised world - admittedly a lot of the European sprinters are 400 or 500 series and modular bodied

there's serious problems with the EU market and en471 compliance from fire gear - most are wearing en471 class wwasitcoats over fire gear and fudge the risk assessment by counting the reflective o nthe fire gear to up the fire gear + HV to class 3 standards

exactly EMS drug protocols are for 'unknown' patients these protocols are for a number of known patients whose own doctor ( whether the family doc or an endocrinologist if we are talking glucagon) has prescribed the med - here is the Direction to adminster - the training is aobut giving...

there is an existing PATIENT SPECIFIC direction to administer it's no different helping grandma take her prescribed meds or giving prescribed meds to a toddler you are babysitting for. the direction to adminster the medication exists becasue the med has been prescribed for the patient...

there is a however a patient specific direction for each of the students they may have to adminster it to - becasue it's for their known DM student population - the 'medical control' is the family doctor or endocrinologist who prescribes the student's meds ... certainly from a right...

rid in terms of the division of labour on scene and deciding who drives and who is in the back with the patient what terminology do you suggest?