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Interested in your opinion. To me, yes it should be obvious; we feel folks should be able to trade as long as it doesn't lower the level of care of providers for that station.

This is every shift. We rotate every 3rd day. Thanks for the input, though. It's good to have others' opinions. Our frustration is most all of us have preferred stations. If medic "a" and medic "b" want to trade, should that be disciplined?

I am currently part of a county EMS system that covers 500 sq. Miles. This area is covered by 4 ambulances which are all paramedic units. We have an education coordinator that feels it is inappropriate to have permanent stations and/or partners.He gets upset very easily when he is not made...

I don't know. How does chuck norris relate??

By the way, your interpretations of the 1st person 3rd person and 4th person are totally incorrect. Are you even in EMS??

So "Brown" i see you changed what is always at the bottom of your posts. You originally said I am Brown, but you decided you couldn't do that anymore because that was speaking like normal people so better change it up :) haha.

Simply not practical to do in the field. If someone needs a central line that badly, we resort to IO

Ok. Whew. Glad to hear I'm not the only one that was becoming irratated with it

Does different states have different protocols on which levels can use IO's? Here in Indiana it is restricted to Paramedic only. Don't quote me on this but EMT-Intermediate may be able to. Not sure.

Also, we were taught not to put any pressure on the drill. We were told to let the drill take and it will do the rest

I am so confused?? Are you talking in 3rd person?? What are you saying?

I have actually used 3 types of IO needles. The traditional "barbaric screw in" type ha. The BIG (Bone Injection Gun) and the Easy IO. I think you already know what I think of the "handheld" IO needle. It's barbaric. The BIG was terrible. Used it 2 times on 2 different adult patient's in...

I see your point. And don't get me wrong, I wasn't saying we are anesthesiologist or even close to that, however, if you have RSI protocols, you do induce anesthesia. Induce means to make something happen. Anesthesia is the state of being unaware of what is going on or simply having no memory of...

I see someone mentioned that lido will counteract the rise in heart rate?? You shouldn't see a rise in HR as laryngoscopy tends to actually lower heart rate. That's why we use atropine around here as a premedication to anesthesia induction.