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So my friend found this idea for a new product (done as an engineering school design project) online and forwarded it to me: http://daniellegerard.com/cor/ It's basically a device for cooling saline for therapeutic hypothermia. Not being an ALS provider myself, nor having worked in a...

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Not to start a whackerish thread, but my boots have definitely seen better days and I'll be needing replacement soon. I presently wear Bates (no safety toe) and love them, only thing I'd change is the lack of zipper. For my next pair, I was thinking of getting these...

Well, what many in the industry have been predicting for a while has finally come to pass-2012 will be the last year for the E-Series. It will be replaced by a new version of the Transit, which is currently in use in Europe. While I look forward to seeing what the Transit can do over here...

My campus service recently got a new Director of QA/QI. We're looking into ways to help him adjust to the job and were wondering if there is such a thing as a QA/QI training course. Does anyone know of any, particularly in the Boston area? Thanks!

You and your partner are driving between calls when you encounter a disheveled looking individual who appears as though they require assistance. Pt is A&Ox4 and refuses care. Pt has some evidence of some minor injuries but denies being the victim of foul play. During the contact you recognize...

Hey all, I've got a question regarding some nursing home(s) in the Hartford area. If you could be of assistance, please shoot me a PM.

I'm considering righting a paper for an econometrics class that attempts to establish a relationship between national EMS calls in a given year and several economic indicators. Problem is, I'm having trouble finding a data set that lists the number of EMS calls nationally in a given year. Does...

I'm currently working on finding a replacement for my campus service's Lifepak 500, as Physio-Control won't be providing an update for the 2010 AHA protocols. I know that most AED's are pretty much interchangeable, but I'd like to find some sort of guidelines on how to select an AED for EMS...

I've heard varying opinions on whether or not it's best to take a patient's medications with him/her to the hospital. The main objection I've heard to doing so is that the medications will often get lost somewhere during the course of the patient's treatment, causing the patient to then incur...

I saw this linked on another site. It looks very well done and seems like it could be a good training aid. http://inside.gwumc.edu/nemspi/zero_hour.swf

In class we were taught that inserting the NPA on the left side is not preferred, but if it does need to be done, the bevel should be cut so that it faces the septum as it would when inserted via the right Nare. Upon reviewing my textbook tonight however, it said to insert the NPA upside down...

My name is Rob and (as of tomorrow morning) I'm an EMT-B student. I've been a junior member of my town's volunteer ambulance for nearly two years. I'm very excited to be starting the course (my age precluded me from doing so previously). I've been lurking on EMTLife for quite some time and...