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For the most part, a WEMT is the medical person in charge in austere environments far from definitive care. Your job could be anything. Medicine, SAR, logistics, trip planing, evacuation, etc. Your job function will vary based off of trip length, number of people, and severity of the emergency...

High probability head bleed. Lady told her husband how bad her headache was, then she dropped. Unconscious and vomiting when we got there

Me neither. No disconnect between provider levels. I've worked at other companies where medics get different colored shirts, badges, extra patches, pins, go go gadget radio holders, etc. And they wonder why there are paragods....

There was also nothing mentioned of fear of performing these procedures. If it's life threatening and you can fix it, fix it without pain meds (example needle decompression). Again, I'm not saying give pain meds to start IVs, but for other pt's, providing analgesia is not a "abandonment of good...

Get your wilderness emt and you can be a guide in the White mountains

Company I work for doesn't want medics or EMTs to wear patches on their sleeves. Just the normal uniform with the company logos

Classic oh sh*t moment from the engineers standing too close

Can't take the dirty pieces of paper when your gone

"If you win the rat race, you're still a rat"

@Jessanne I used to work their years ago for my first job as a basic. Send me a PM and i can give you a run down of the company No 911 contracts in Mass. you'll get the occasional "bad labs" direct call to Lifeline response to a nursing home

Thought the same thing

That's the Irish blood sorry ha. To be honest, i cant stand lazy people (not you guys) in regards to pain management. The line of why give pain meds when the hospital is right down the roads drives me crazy (more than baseline). People withholding pain meds cause its close to shift change and...

Right here: "But I hate the distinct fear that we are nervous to do something that can save a life because it will hurt. No kidding it will hurt, but so does an IV, IO and EJ. Am I going to abandon those items and good care because of the pain? No." I agree 0.5mg might be pissing in the wind...

Where do i start First off, ill repeat it was never originally directed at you. Yes i was repeating your verbatim of saying i hope you never would, Because you were explaining, you never would cardiovert a stable person. This is us agreeing Just my style of medicine, i would never move a pt...

People higher up on the lift jumped when they started rolling backwards

Man I need to proof read my posts for spelling. "Give some sedations" is my new term haha

Giving pain management is good Pt care. End of story. I'm not saying sedate someone for every IV but electrical therapies are big painful procedures where sedation will help the pt. Next time you see someone get cardioverted in the ER, not pre hospital, tell me if the MD/PA/RN doesn't have some...

Like I said it wasn't directed at you. And I'm not going to go full ACLS refresher, but I would hope you would never cardiovert a stable Pt ever. My point is not the algorithms we choose, medicine before Edison and all that. My point is, if it came to the point where your findings deemed an...

Big ole batch of rice beans and hot sauce go a long way

For the most part, you should have time to give some sort of sedation before cardioverting. Yes, if the pt is circling the drain, minimally responsive, with a pressure in the 50-60s refractory to fluid, then hell yeah light em up. But I'd be pretty pissed if I have some symptomatic arrhythmia...