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It was in our last protocol update and now its part of our 24hour refresher course. In about another year everyone should have cycled through, I hope lol.

Were running in to that quite often. People are resistant to change, but if your medical director advises otherwise good luck getting any backing if you screw the pooch.

Jim said it best! People don't yeild to us and they don't care if people die as a consequence. It doesn't help that cops tend to be lazy and don't write people tickets for failing to yield to EMS. Just do your best and always stop and look both ways at every single intersection.

Our agency(ICEMA) and the neighboring REMSA are going towards the NSAID rule for C-spine. We are now being trained to avoid long and shirt boards unless they meet the NSAID rule criteria. The rationale behind it is that the long board will place undue pressure on the lower spine and cause more...

Honestly the best prep I found was the Cliff's Notes EMT Basic crash course. It cost $18 and came with a ton of practice tests and quizzes. I finished EMT school and waited a year before taking my test. I used this book two weeks before the test and passed on the first shot. I would highly...

ROFL! I live in southern California, my first shift training on the rig we had 11 calls in 12 hours lol.

Have someone hold cspine while two of you pull the pt out using a KED. Using a short board or full board instead is unsafe, but sometimes is the only option if your company doesn't provide you with a KED. Just document all your interventions and anything you may fear will come back in the form...

What state and county is it? It must be weird not having the radio go off constantly lol.

So in LACO EMT basics can insert king airways?

ROFL! Thanks

I was considering applying part time with SAS in LA, but I noticed that they have an expanded scope. All I've been able to find online is that it requires a 4 hour class. I keep searching for more info on the expanded scope, but can't find much. Does anyone have it and can you explain how it...

In SB county fire rolls and an ALS rig with one medic and one EMT also roll. About 90% of the time the ambulance gets there first and those guys do most of the work. In our county fire really doesn't need to show up.

I was wondering how it works from county to county. That is to say, I live in San Bernardino County and want to get certified by ICEMA(our local agency). I also live close to the Riverside and Orange County. If I get certified by my county would I need to do the entire process to work in...

After talking to several EMTs that work for the large ambulance company nearby everyone has the same answer. Have your program restest you, ask another program to test you or take the refresher. The local branch of AMR has a refresher in 3 weeks, I'm considering taking it for $150. All the EMTs...

The way I was taught was to only go over the arms if they weren't conscious so the arms didn't move about.

I realize that I have to retest. I was just hoping I could retest with out having to pay $150-200 for a refresher course.

I'll call them today. I think my instructors just don't want to deal with the hassle of retesting me.

I finally got ahold of one of my instructors and she told me that my only option is to pay for and take a 24hr refresher course. That seems wrong...I'm not sure.

You want to reserve the BVM for apneic patients. People that have uneven chest rise or are non responsive IMO and or low RR of <10. If the patient is responsive and on the high range I would always go NRB@15lpm. Hope that helps, check cliffs notes cram plan it helped me a lot.