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I have seen patients shocked on wet sides of swimming pools (major no no in every class) with no major problems, so this shouldn't cause a problem. Maybe not kneel on the metal, Squat on it

Toradol works great for Kidney stones, nothing else we carry will work for them. Spimx; I am glad you don't work for me or with me. Had a patient yesterday, 11 y/o female, was pushed into a couch. Hit her lower right rib cage on the wooden corner of the couch. She was screaming in pain...

NREMT takes both. FT job used to teach AHA, and switched to Red Cross, and both states that I am certified in and NREMT doesn't care that my certifications switched.

I have said for my entire EMS career that all EMT's should spend at least 1 summer working at a Scout or Youth camp where the closest EMS is 30-45 minutes away. You will learn more about working EMS in a case like that than you do working in a city for your entire career. It has been over 20...

And another wonderful (sarcasm) thing about unions just popped up.

Luke_31: it is not fun to be in the back of an ambulance when an idiot officer pepper sprays a combative patient. I was in the back at the scene when the unconscious patient (2 FF, medic {Me}, EMT and 2 officers) woke up and became combative. 3rd officer pulled up, opened the back door, and...

FT is Medic/Medic or Medic/EMT. PT is AEMT/EMT or Medic/EMT or AEMT. sometimes 3 depending on staffing. But PT job is 110-130 miles minimum to closest hospital, and we can be up to another 80 miles on top of that, depending where the run starts (station to 80 miles, then back to area of...

You would think with all the news footage of cars getting washed down roads and off roads that people would get smart and not drive onto flooded roads, but they do it all the time and across the nation

All the patients that I have had that have had barbs in sensitive places that should have been transported to the hospital (and I was going to take them to the hospital) pulled them out on their own. Including 1 guy that was in his scrotum., and 1 lady that was in her eyelid. Then they refused...

Yes we remove the taser darts; then bandage (usually just a 2cm x 4cm little bandaid) if needed. Very seldom are they needed. Just grab the wires and pull. I have had a couple patients tell me that hurts more than getting tasered, (tased?) in the first place. Then we turn them over to the...

so maybe the medical care over there is so cheap because the pay is so lousy?

Most EMS services across the US doesn't pay equal to living expenses on a normal year; so why would you think they would increase pay to match the Cost of Living (Inflation) now? Some areas would have to give 50% plus pay raises to make that happen.

Hard to make the US the same across the country: the 2 counties that Dr. Parasite mentioned were great examples for the East Coast; and even most of the Midwest and South East. But I work in the West: at my PT job I work in 1 of 3 EMS services in the county: 52,500 population in the county...

Disney World seems to be hiring Medics quite often (friend works there); pay seems low, but she said cost of living is low if you get away from the immediate area around Disney World

I wish I could take pictures today, we have 6 chinooks, 8 Blackhawks, and 6 Apaches, sitting 1/4 mile from my station If needed we could use any of the Blackhawks or Chinooks for Medevac Missions. That would freak out the hospitals.

Any hospital that lands on the roof of the parking garage can land a Chinook, besides that just land them on the street in front: drivers will stop. Of course you can do a low hover and drop the back ramp, 30 deg down angle. Had a pilot tell me that they could hover over my ambulance and...

Indianapols?

Parking lot at the Indianapolis Zoo was great, especially with a new partner when the Mountain lion was noisy (sounds just like a screaming lady). Friday/Saturday nights: in an alley between 2 dance clubs downtown, along with 5 other ambulances; we would actually get runs from the drunks and...

I used to check BGL with every IV, all that free blood everywhere, might as well make use of it for something, but our new IV catheters have a valve in them so they don't bleed everywhere anymore. If the RR was faster I would say it was asthma that was well on the way to resp failure and the...

You will learn more about EMS doing IFT than 911: I did both for 8 years and I enjoyed it. You will transport people who are unresponsive, and that is their normal state: people who are fun to talk to, people that will hit on you (sexually), 95 year old lady would try to grope all of the...