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So it is the time of year that we are getting our permit renewed. Looking through the state provided checklist, they are requiring that we have a First Aid kit on the unit. Does anybody actually have a First Aid kit on their ambulance? It seems to me that the ambulance is a First Aid kit...

Good Evening. So I cracked open one of my Vacuum splints today and noticed that the tube on one of them was broke off. Someone mentioned that we should look in to an alternative splinting solution (besides the vacuum splints). One recommendation that I was given was the Ferno Pro Splints...

Good Morning all and Happy New years! This might be an off topic thread and I apologize ahead of time if it is. I was wondering if anybody here is in charge of their IT dept. or management within their station. If so, I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for software for...

So last year I was at a call for a woman who was complaining of back pain. While the patient was being checked out inside the house, I was asked to back the driver up the driveway. I looked back and saw cars on the road so I was heading back inside the back to get my traffic vest (per...

Good Afternoon all. I was doing some thinking and have decided to setup a mass casualty drill for my station. I need help coming up with a scenario for this exercise. I was thinking about possibly doing an isolated hazmat related incident where there was an outdoor exposure during an...

All, I recently had to look over the county protocols and one of the protocols I had to demonstrate, for testing purposes, was the use of the morgan eye lense. In our protocols, it lists that the BLS provider should use Tetricaine to numb the eye before placing the morgan eye lense. We...

Good Morning everyone. I have a question about using O2 in the field. I recently got my cert and am back to riding in the back of the unit instead of being up front driving. In my EMT class, they stressed O2, O2, O2! Stubbed your toe? 15lpm by NRB. Chest pains? 15lpm by NRB. They said...

Good Evening all! I attended a firefighter rescue class this weekend that has made muscles that I did not know existed hurt like crazy! I grabbed a few hot packs from the back of our ambulance (3 to be exact) and popped the little bladder inside of the pack to activate the heat. The first one...

Good Afternoon! I was asked a couple weeks ago about looking in to getting some of these new fancy "Emesis Bags" to replace the big old basins that we currently carry. I found a brand called EMBags and was wondering if anybody has seen or used these before. Apparently they are sealable so...

Good evening, I have been noticing a trend in the county I run in and I wanted to know if it was common everywhere else. In our county, we have ALS units that are dedicated to being medic units 24x7. On many occasions, I have been dispatched to many BLS calls that were downgraded from an...

In our fire apparatus we have fire comm units for communication from the driver and officer to the personnel in the back of the unit. Does anybody have the fire comm units in their ambulances? Our current ambulance only has a 1' x 2' window between the front cab and rear patient compartment...

Good Evening everyone! I had a question about Aid bags and O2 bags. We currently have an aid bag that requires some searching to find things inside of it. With our O2 bag, in order to get the O2 bottle out, you have to remove the intubation kit and sometimes it can be a challenge cramming...

Good Evening Everyone! Since EMS week is approaching, I am trying to think of events for our annual station open house. We did our Fire Open house last fall and it did not do so well so I want to make up for it with the EMS open house. Do any of you have stations that do any events for...

Good Morning, I hope everyone had a great holiday! I had a question regarding the various pulse ox units out there, I am looking for a unit that can monitor carbon monoxide levels. I am looking for a hand held version. So far I have found one brand that makes one called Masimo. Their...

So yesterday morning we were dispatched for an injury. Patient was a 3yr old female who was sitting on a kitchen counter and pulled a kettle of hot water over and had 2nd degree burns across roughly 7% of the back of her thighs and butt. We walk in to the house and see the little girl laying...

So, I am fairly new to the EMS world, I have recently been released as a driver and have finally had the chance to run some calls. Labor Day was not my favorite day because we ran ALL night. I cought about 30 minutes of sleep between each call. At 4:30 tones went out for a car accident up...

So our county has provided MDCs for all of our apparatus. We are lacking GPS functionality though. I am currently investigating a USB type GPS receiver to attach to our MDCs. Does anyone have a USB type GPS attached to thier MDCs? If so, what kind do you use? If you dont have one attached...

I was just curious what your station's policies are regarding washing and maintaining a clean ambulance. We are getting our first out ambulance ready for a parade this friday and we have been spending a long long long long long long time for preparing. It's funny....I forget how big the...

Good afternoon everyone. I am new to the forum and had an idea I wanted to run past you. I run with a volunteer squad that is in a rural community. I wanted to create a program that would make it so that the EMT that runs the call would fill out a "get well soon" greeting card to send to...