So, I'm in the east bay on a trip, and I swear I saw a billboard advertising a private ambulance company. :blink: Is that sort of thing normal down here?
Scenario: A woman in her 70's is out hiking, and miles down the trail trips and injures her ankle -- fracture or bad sprain. A bystander splints it, and she and her husband try to walk out, can't. SAR gets activated, which is where I come in. An uneventful evac occurs.
As we're getting...
US Army officer cadets going through an EMT program get to do their clinicals out in the field in NYC, instead of in a hospital ED.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110ap_west_point_fdny.html
I'm looking into getting funding for an AED or two to put in my SAR group's vehicles. Has anyone here had dealings with aedgrant.com or other grant programs?
Does anyone carry a LED headlamp with them? I've recently started taking my backpacking one (Petzl Tikka+) to work to use in dark spots. Having light exactly where you're looking while keeping both hands free has been great. Also nice for, say, checking out the cut on someone's head without...
I'm in the middle of the training academy for a volunteer SAR group. Once through the training, I'll be able to practice as an EMT on missions. I'm starting to put together a BLS aid kit for my 48 hour pack. Caveats are that we have to pay for everything ourself, and whatever I pack will be on...
So, I was in a farm supply store today picking up some pet stuff, and saw a shelf with livestock IV supplies. Sadly, the largest needle was only a 16 gauge, and no longer than the ones for humans.
I was hoping for something under a 14, assuming I could get it without a prescription... :D
A few cities over, some idiot teenager going too fast slammed into the back of an ambulance shortly after the crew had loaded a patient in back... major injuries on his part, lesser ones to the firefighters.
http://www.komotv.com/news/5748796.html
I had my first experience with cagnography yesterday.
Working on a CCT car with a nurse, and a brand new, all the bells and whistles LP12. Our patient's a guy who had a morphine pump surgically implanted a few days ago. The general consensus is that its dosage is a bit too high. On a steady...
I'm used to a regular stream of complete BS, abusing the system calls. But yesterday was ridicolous in that respect.
Plus there was a little bit of snow, which turned already bad traffic into something out of a nightmare. Going 2 mph was fast. People were sitting in traffic for 5+ hours to go...