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My EMT school instructor told us about a code he ran on to a nursing home. When they got there, the orderly/RN/whatever said "Thank goodness you guys are here, I've been bagging this guy for 5 minutes now." He had put a NRB on the pt and was squeezing the bag, waiting for it to fill back up...

I live in the Phoenix metro area, and the PFD as well as the FDs of the surrounding cities have a 4 minute response time goal, and from what I understand that goal is usually met, with units usually on scene in less than 4 minutes. I don't think we have too many stations, and if we have more...

Oh, weird. I didn't even know there was a regulation against it. Glad I didn't buy it, then!

The first pt I actually worked on was in my hospital rotation during EMT school clinicals. The call came for a code, the rescue was bringing in a pt from a nursing home with a hx of CHF, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, and at the time pneumonia. Being the eager student that I was, I volunteered...

Do you carry an O2 bottle in your jump kit? How do you get it filled up when it runs out? I just put together a jump kit because I go camping and airsofting with friends every now and then, and it's usually pretty removed from civilization and therefore EMS. I was thinking about getting an O2...

Maybe a bit off topic, but are there any EMS-related positions for officers? All the positions I've heard are for enlisted only. The reason I ask is because I'm working towards acceptance in the Coast Guard's CSPI (College Student Precommissioning Initiative) which, upon successful...