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Not to sound like a vulture but that’s a heart, two lungs, liver, two kidneys, and gut that were slowed to die in vain instead of potentially being harvested.

Ill bet hypercapnia from progressive hypoventilation and poor respiratory drive.

Given your story it is difficult to really know what happened. That being said it sounds like this guy probably has very little reserve and is pretty close to the end stages of Alzheimer’s. You unfortunately are probably watching the last bit of his clinical decline.

That distance is much shorter than most people think.

To be quite honest I think this gets into arguing about fairly minor what ifs rather than the actual merit of concealed carry. Lock it up in the narc vault. If personal security is better maintained by leaving the weapon secured rather than retreating it then you leave it there. Just the same...

It is not illegal to concealed carry in a bar or hospital here.

While a bullet certainly has the ability to travel further than a knife it isn’t really as far as most people think. Particularly with typical rounds used for concealed carry there is a relatively low velocity to start with and a high ballistic coefficient. While they certainly remain lethal for...

There is a zero percent chance I am responding to any jail. That being said it can get locked up in the narc box, and I wouldn’t transport an inmate without a officer that stays with the patient.

Right, so should we ban EMS from carrying knives? What if the patient takes it from them and kills someone? What if the EMS provider used it in defense, are they prepared to be booked into jail? What if they give ketamine at the request of the police, are they prepared to be sued for millions...

If firearm retention is a primary argument then should we allow EMS to carry knives?

Why would there need to be a different set of laws for a non-LEO who has a valid concealed carry permit to carry while working in EMS than when they are living the rest of their lives, particularly with use of force? If a 6’5” 300 pound build man tries to strangle me and I’ll in genuine fear...

It has to do with the comment that chemo infusions are irrelevant to EMS.

The dose that is in them is still bioactive.

I think that depends on how you hold the syringe. It is possible to manipulate the plunger while holding the barrel, and therefore the needle, completely still. I hold the barrel under my 2nd and 3rd and then over the proximal phalanx on my 4th and then use my thumb to manipulate the plunger...

I’m not entirely sure if what this is actually supposed to mean, that being said I’m a bit disappointed. I never got a silly cap or a white tight skirt. All I’ve got over the yard, free of charge anyway, is a handful of daisies.

I think this is a two sided sword. For very experienced providers the education provided is minimal and the rigidity of the process limits high level providers. That being said if we consider the average provider and recognize that half of the group will fall below that there are many...

In a lot of urban areas there are several competing systems that are trying to pull volume from EMS, and are not willing or are hesitant to fight them. Emergency department volume from EMS has a higher rate of admission and therefor positive cash flow (compared to walk ins), so there is a...

There are some medications that should be aspirated before injection. Asparaginase for example already has a high rate of profound anaphylactic shock, and mortality increase with rapid IV administration.

Those complaints are voiced in clinic and the hospital as well, so I don’t think that is isolated to EMS.

Let’s be real, those are just a petty way of trying to pull EMS volume. I prefer free food.