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I'd give up 1, 2, and 3. 4 does the job of 1 and 3, and 6 does the job of 2. Clearly this means I am ready to be a politician for making all these fantastic budget cuts. I'll be running in 2016.

Pedestrian vs palm frond. And do not be confused, dear people, this was no ordinary, leafy, green, shady palm frond. Oh no. Not in the least. It was, in fact, a dead one. In fact it looked strikingly (pun intended) similar to this one. But fear not, this is not THE actual Palm frond. No...

I agree with this. What he is trying to say is IFT world and 911 world are very different. I learn/ed a lot at my 8 months/continuing PT gig at IFT, but when I started at 911 it was like being sent back to school. IFT causes you to lose your sense of urgency, your snap-decision making skills...

Our union president (also my partner) posted on our union page last night to discuss the latest management meeting. Apparently they discussed the overdoses for the month of July. Only the month of July. 359 overdoses treated. 59 patients of which were repeat offenders. For the month of July...

Godspeed to you, then. IF the mindset is to lower response times and get qualified, competent, and truly proactive care to people calling 911, fantastic. If the mindset is to swindle 911 calls from closer units to add notches to a belt, shame. When I volunteered the county would call us...

Where I work, we have nine- count them, 9- fire departments. For one county that has less than half a million people. And it is nothing but a constant pain trying to get to a place where we can work with them on calls. Two of them are volunteer. And there is a VAST difference between them and...

Our "worst" was a quadruple overdose. One died, three lived to surely overdose again...

We've been finding out that the heroin is usually cut with fentanyl. The worst batch that we had last year (which caused the most deaths) was actually found to have some propofol in it. Thank god that batch was small. Still, our ODs are nothing but increasing. We've seen anywhere from 13-75...

Lucky. We were transporting a semi-critical cardiac patient last shift (HR 32 but asymptomatic and BP 136 manual) and a woman literally jumped in front of the ambulance to get us to come save her brother, whom apparently had OD'd on heroin about 4 hours before. Called a second unit while my...

So how bad is the OD epidemic where everyone else is? My county just has the honorable designation of becoming the OD capital of the state. We've already surpassed last year's OD numbers, in calls and deaths, and we used the same amount of narcan in 3 months (2015) than we did for the entirety...

This. I worked IFT for 8mos before getting hired at my 911 agency. I STILL work at my IFT part time, I've been here for 3 years this month. I learned more about chronic care, trachs, home vents, hospice, and clinical meds and pumps there than I did at school, whether I realized it or not. Don't...

I work for a larger county, but we obviously have the same problem. We only have 17 ALS units 24 hours, sometimes we have an 18th one for half the day. We cover more than 340,000 residents in just under 900 square miles, 90% of our population lives within the urban areas. Our problem is that we...

Our COPD/Asthma protocol has a caveat in it for CPAP+duo neb. We carry the little blue T valve adapters which can be placed in-between the mask and the PEEP gauge. Happily we have just transitioned to the Flow-Safe CPAPs and they are awesome. Unhappily our medical director does not believe in...

Dispatched at 0653 (crew change at 7am, oncoming medic was going to be late coming from another station) for a "22 y/o WM arm lac, heavy bleeding" Show up on scene to said person, wearing gym shorts, boxers prominent, slip-on sandals, and wife beater tank-off his skinny little pale self and...

In my area there is a housing community that names all its streets after really pompous sounding flowers and botanicals. We were dispatched to such an address. My radio traffic as follows: "Medic124 responding for chest pain to 456..... Uhhh.... Ummm... THAT-word Street." Cue stifled laughter...

First call yesterday: 5 vehicle MVC with entrapment and 3 trauma alerts, 2 of which were peds; their parent ended up having a T-injury and a dissecting aorta. First call today: homeless 26 year old IV drug user with chest pain, curiously on the same exact spot where he has abrasions to his ribs...

Pretty self explanatory. Was just sitting at a red light and a lady pulled up and signaled for me to roll down my window. Did so and she asked- "Where do I get (muffler muffled engine sounds)?" "What? I can't hear you!" "Where (muffle garble hand gesture at her car." I look at my partner, and...

Recently (ish) had a call for cardiac at a doctors office. In the ambo trying to get an IV (hypotensive and Brady), all of a sudden my partner in the airway seat lunges up and looked pissed. I turn and realize some old man is literally climbing up the back door the ambulance, banging on the...

Here's hoping its body wash and not a bar of soap... :confused:

That's still the biggest crap ever.