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We get these at work and they suck. Too thin IMO: https://www.google.com/search?q=kimberly+clark+gloves&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibgP2hl5bhAhUhrVkKHb9QBnwQ_AUIDygC&biw=1366&bih=689#imgrc=ywQhBTdvdUCpLM: So I buy these to keep in my flight suit. Normally only have to buy 3-4 boxes a...

We have two plate carriers on the medic at my FD job. Wear it if you want, don't if you don't.

Do both 911 and CCT. One full time one part-time is what I have always done since graduation from P school. Now I fly full-time and 911/Fire part-time. I also agree with VentMonkey that it should be 5 years +.

Common practice, oral surgeon's offices do this stuff day in and day out. My old program used to rotate in and out of an oral surgeon's office to do intubations on the regular. You will be fine....

Maryland has clearly changed how they are doing things over the years. It never used to be this much of a process or that difficult. As far as the payment goes, MFRI classes are free to any member of a MD volunteer organization and I know that hasn't changed..... With that being said, anyone...

Yup thats fair. Every state is going to have their own legalities to follow that will influence decision making. Personally if I'm unconscious I have bigger things to worry about then getting my CCW rig back lol. Yet another great reason to own more then one firearm :)

You have like 10 different questions posed here and a bunch of different scenarios.... If you weren't aware of the potential of a weapon involved from your dispatch depending on the scenario you can continue to treat the patient and call for law enforcement to secure the weapon when they get...

I think it all depends on the program, how their orientation is structured, and where the service is located. I say these things as an opposite point of view as VFlutter, and some of this may be based on different locations and such. Some places are just like VFlutter stated and want you to...

If you work for an employer that will toss money at you to take educational classes and obtain certs then go for it, but as other's have already stated alot of them have no benefit, certainly the tactical classes unless you're in a TEMS team role. Even so most of the EMS provider's on TEMS teams...

Bounced at the strip club, sounds like a job full of bad decisions. I like it.

Worked full-time and part-time while in P school. U can do it (in Adam Sandler voice).

Exactly my point, I don’t know if we really know how many people actually work HEMS. So to compare it to law enforcement where we have about 850k LEO’s in the nation and already 15 killed in line of duty I think is difficult. If we knew a ballpark of how many HEMS providers there are then we...

You have a link to reference? Interesting numbers.

As people above have said all depends on where you are working. I would say if you're in the market for a job then take what you're offered where you applied and be happy you have a job. If you get multiple offer's then you can pick what you wanted based off of things like shifts/schedules...

Totally agree with the last paragraph, and it's frustrating. When I flew at a tertiary Children's Hospital they had a great triage and intake program setup where the Medical Control Officer who accepted the patient for transfer also kinda help guide some care with suggestions and also suggested...

IDK your background, where you work, or anything additional about the situation, but it may have been they felt like their judgement was being questionable by a non-flight hospital provider. Now before the flaming starts, we all know how many factors are considered by pilots and flight crew...

Lots of good info in this thread already for stuff to look out for. I can't stress enough, and do so with all my orientee's, that once you get through orientation don't stop learning and asking questions. Make it a point each day to take some time out with the pilots to learn about an A/C...

Agree, #5 will come back to haunt them I believe in future court proceedings. There is also word that this program had a motto of "we fly what other's can't". From speaking with some people I know in the industry in that area it sounds like frozen precipitation was present, so I'm going to guess...

So sad that with the amount of crashes that continue in the industry there are programs and flight crew who will continue to take flights that put their lives at risk and no one speaks up. I hear that not only was the flight turned down by two programs, one right in the town the hospital was at...

Survival Flight out of Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus Ohio crashed this morning enroute to pickup a patient. I believe they're in a 407. Limited details at this time but 3 fatalities have been confirmed :( RIP crew...