Recent content by zvi-emt

welcome! good luck with all of your applications! Its always great when the police or first responders on scene know what they're doing in a medical emergency.

welcome! good luck with the ALS service

1st Call My first call was on a night shift, at about 4 in the morning we responded for a frequent-flier homeless man / drug addict.

Facebook someone should make an EMTLife facebook group, or post in all of the ems related facebook groups advertising the forum, some of the EMT groups on facebook have thousands of members!

Im def. addicted to soda, specfically coke, but im going to try to switch to Ice-T.

III's vs. II's I started my EMS career in type 2's and im never going back! The amount of room and space for storing equipment, turnout, etc. is very important to me, Also, if I was a patient I wouldn't want 2 cramped emt's hovering right on top of me in a van, Id much prefer to have some...

sbirn- as for your options in israel, while the basic 60 hour course offered to youth volunteers, overseas program volunteers and the public may be titled as a "first aid course" rest assured it is the same curriculum as a First Responder Course. If you have the option, I suggest taking the...

youth There are definite advantages to having teen EMT's, With so many volunteer companies in my home area (NJ) having problems with recruitment and some even needing to shut down, it would help to train some younger people on the chance that some stick around long term. Also, if they are...

ectasy in response to the comment about ecstasy, when I was in high school we had a drug education program where we were shown scans of an ecstasy user's brain. It looked like swiss cheese and still people joked about it. Its sad that nothing gets through to some people.

chips I would definitely want a chip implanted in me, why not, if it could have my emergency contacts, medical history, drug allergies and physician contact info. I would love the peace of mind, and seriously, i would likely forget it was in there in no time. I do however think it should be...

meds I definitely think that more education about meds would come in handy. The medics always pay very close attention to what meds a patient is on, and i see no reason why emt-b's shouldn't understand most common meds and their effects on our patients.

ride-along hey, a good idea in addition to taking some first aid or CPR courses would be to ride along with a local ambulance company or volunteer squad and get a feel for what working a shift , and seeing calls in the field is like. I rode along with a local squad before starting my training...