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We overly push pelvic binders here. We are supposed to put them on any high mechanism, unresponsive trauma patient. Also any trauma arrest, and last year they (medical direction) wanted them for hard/distended abdomens in high mechanism trauma. We are told that we cannot actually assess to...

Our paramedic program started teaching “CAB” in a while ago for trauma and even the NR skill sheets have long emphasized looking for massive hemorrhage immediately. Last year our guidelines started including MARCH in the applicable trauma areas but our stop the bleed for EMS classes introduced...

Looks similar to the Park Service graphics.

We had no way to synch to AMR Meds with the X, so for years until the city mandated ESO we printed everything. Even now I still would rather examine an EKG on paper. The cloud based upload is not fast enough to use our toughbooks for interpretation. System wide it’s a cultural no no to use the...

Yes. As I recall from a news story the ambulance is parked at school for the students to respond from during the day.

I have never found anything requiring tags or really anything that requires the tracking of vials.

I wanted to love the Tempus but I was underwhelmed. We did not find the touch screen to work very well and it sometimes it would freeze. We also had issues with the therapy unit synching with the monitor. Printer is just ok. It is light though, I like that. And being able to split the weight...

Connecticut also does EMT certification at 16. There the famous/infamous high school run squad serving a town— https://post53.org/

Our mobile radios have a timer and will shut off after 15 minutes if they’re only on battery power. The real thing that wrecks our batteries are the fridges.

We have a small, clear pelican case that is tagged. We use PSTrax to track the tag number, as well as the lot number of each vial. I do not know why we do this as many of the vials have the same lot number, though we are told this is how we track individual vials. If the tag is broken and a...

There we were, just driving. And then suddenly we sound like an over-tuned dump truck—turns out our exhaust and muffler just fell out during a rain storm. We’re already in a reserve engine and the more reserve engine has zero equipment and half the seatbelts don’t work. So we’re rolling around...

There is nothing anti LGBTQ about my comments regarding a poor choice of title and I absolutely will not be engaging with anyone whose only strategy is to gaslight. I’ve said my piece, I have no further interest in discussing this issue with you.

Based on the quotes I have read from him and episodes I have watched, I have deemed him prejudiced. It’s not an ad hominem attack on him. I read it, that’s the conclusion that I came to. Lots of people share that opinion. Other people do not. I don’t care what you (plurally) think of him. In...

Nothing. But in general appealing to someone with a history of making what I would deem to be prejudiced comments doesn’t bring much to this discussion. That’s really the take away of my point here.

I don’t think you read a single thing I posted. I am not suggesting that there is not room for discussion. I do agree that bigoted people can still state truthful things. But what is the point of using him as the authority? Why not just have a discussion and leave out the guy that many people...

I think there is a legitimate discussion for medical providers to have regarding changes to commonly held beliefs on gender and sex. I do not see how “Matt Walsh wrecks this dude who claims to be an EMT” shows how the OP is interested in having a legitimate discussion on the issue. In...

Holding predisposition towards a patient population will inevitably result in treating patients with unnecessary bias. Thinking that a the majority of patient population is delusional is a terrible attribute for a medical provider to have and I would encourage you to take an introspective look...

Few and far between. And even if it does, the workload often sucks compared to many other careers. My old third service now pays enough to make a career from and has the benefits to match, but their crews work at least twice as hard as I do on any given day.

Hmm, not sure a recorded 25 minute powerpoint with voiceover is sufficient training to roll out TXA and Ancef, but what do I know. Our medical director's physician group limits our MD to 2 hours per quarter. So everything gets farmed out to hospital "paramedic educators" that have an...