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Holy crap, a lot of heat around on the subject. My area: "Standard" ambulance throughout the region: BLS/ALS, or "ALS rig" .. if the call is ALS, the P takes it and B drives, and vice versa. This has minimum staffing, but most flexibility. The system also prompts for fire first response...

A little off-topic, but... http://www.amazon.com/Once-Eagle-Anton-Myrer/dp/0061030864 My name is from the title of a book that, honestly, changed my life during the small time frame a book can do that you a young man. This is one of three novels that I use as framing references to how I...

My situation includes being posted at some gas station parking lot for twelve hours at a time overnight, with my commercial company. I used to just hit up whatever was open (and finding out exactly which drive-thrus I can fit the mods through... Tim Horton's being one of those I cannot, but...

I was a fan on writing on my forearm, as some have mentioned, until a warm day and CPR lead to me having a black streak across my forehead from wiping the sweat away. Now, the back of the glove works wonders assuming it's not particularly messy to that point.

I'll echo the core strengthening routines as the most important... a strong back is a much less likely to be hurt back. I've always been a fan of the squat exercises, especially for this line of work. We emphasize using our legs for everything, why not start there? A simple way to get...

Really? My college service has much of what you say, but there's still a fair amount of low level trauma going on, even some medium-to-serious occasionally. I don't know what was in the water this past year, but there have been an insane amount of seizures, and a remarkably low amount of...

Our bus has an anti-theft setting (aka "kill switch") that we use. The rig stays on and running for temperature normalization and lighting, but the main lights stay off as to not attract too much undue attention (safety measures taken with ambers) and not blind incoming drivers (driving...