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FT: we fill up when we get back home, after 90 + or 180+ miles. If we need to we can fill up earlier. PT We fill up after we leave the hospital; at

Per doctor's orders

Nursing, In hospital (in places that will hire medics), PA school, teaching, out of EMS all together.

It would be silly, but it that is the only option for IV/IO access, better than nothing. The last patient I cardioverted due to unstable SVT, took almost 30 minutes to get BP up and I ended up drilling his Tibia for IO access. After a fluid bolus we were able to get his BP up over 100 S. but...

Yea; well our new protocols don't allow Cardioversion unless the patient is unstable; but if you leave a patient in SVT long enough they will become unstable. And with a 80 mile transport that is hard on patients

I see that there is a wait list in a lot of AMR's locations which in some doesn't make any sense. A friend and former co-worker went to work for AMR in Denver/Colorado Springs area, and they made her wait almost 90 days before she started. They are advertising for 35 or so people and started...

The Humoral you can push Adenocard through it and get it to the heart in time to do some good. And you can push a lot more fluid through it

Seems like most places are medic heavy in cities, and few and far between the farther you go out of town, the places that you need medics there aren't any

Huh; Where I work a person in custody or under arrest can refuse treatment and care. Until they go before the judge and are found guilty of something they are NOT in State or County care, and any medical care is still paid for by the person. We have officers try a lot to get us to transport...

I hope to make it to 67 at my FT job, so that I can collect full SS benefits. plus increase my retirement by another 9 years. Never worked anywhere else that had decent retirement except Radio Shack back in the 1990's and when they crashed I lost $200K in stock that was my retirement and I...

Keep up the IFT scenarios, a lot of people don't like doing IFT; but I think you learn a lot from them I know I did, and I miss them

I love the old EMS tale about pulse locations and BP. I have been as low as 62/24 and had strong radial pulses. Just 3 weeks ago as a ED patient (getting staples in my head) I was 78/30 and the ED nurse said that the monitor was wrong because I had a radial pulse. Doctor wanted to push...

When we got something like a sending facility asking us to do something that wasn't normally in our scope of practice, we would call the receiving hospital Doctor (medical control for the transport) and say this is what is going on, do you have a problem signing off on me doing it so that the...

I haven't been in EMS as long, but I am glad I am working somewhere now that it will take a major accident to disable me out (or helping another crew with lift assist) between power cots/load and fire running with every run a lifting injury is slim to none.

PT job has no tax base for EMS (none for fire either but they go begging to the Casino's that the EMS owner won't do). All insurance and private pay (and it is $6,000 for each transport) and other companies that she owns keeps her in business

Transferring mid point is a good/bad way of missing something in the report (oral and written). I used to do long distance transports in and out of Indianapolis, loved them now I do them because the closest hospital at my FT job is 42 miles gate to door, and I have been up to 60 miles past the...

Most areas can run Epi and Dopamine drips (or at least where I work/ed and have talked to can). So what is the difference between dripping/titrating meds and a pump? they are more precise and you have to be trained on them Where I used to work, I transported a lot of different medications on...

wow,, just wow

Also in the same county on the same day; a FF/EMT drowned in ice covered reservoir trying to save multiple people. RIP brothers

Merry Christmas to you all, from working in NW Utah