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What would you do if your pt's defibrillator implant delivers shock(s) and the monitor is showing NSR, Pt. is not showing any signs of poor perfusion? This is from an actual review. ALS please join in.

I am posting this here as this is the only part of this community i spend any amount of time on. How many agency's/services/departments, refill there O2 cylinders, and if you do how is this done. This is a CGA(compressed gas association) Safety Alert on this subject...

Our old analog bag phones in the rig have been replaced by Motorola M800 series phones(bag). These phones have been around for some time, but are CDMA digital and work. We do have what is called a government plan, and maybe this helped in getting these high power phones. Here is a link to this...

Being this is the BLS forum I will direct this question mostly towards what is common in my area. The page is for an elderly male, Complaining of chest Pain. This Pt. is close to your position and instead of responding to the Rig, you go directly to the Pt. residence. You announce on your...

According to a Health department complance officer, the service i belong to was a pioneer in running with 3. The boss would charge $25.00 for 2nd Attendant. We would get $10.00 in those early days.(27years ago) Service charge was $125.00, $2.00 per mile(loaded) I sure like not seeing the...

In previous threads we have heard from some ALS members that BLS services have no business using IV's. The service i am with doesn't, although we do have the option to become trained and use IV's for shock/Trauma. There are 2 BLS services in our county that have IV's on board.

We were dispatched to a rural lake home (15<5>>>>) years ago for a 10-72 dead body. We were to deliver to a funeral home. (We didn't do many this way, but we did carry every DOA we tripped over for many years. Still do all morgue runs). Anyway we deliver to the F-home and when we were just...

Are there any BLS agencies that carry Magil Forceps's, 1 on board in jump kit? 2 on their person? Link to forcep's http://www.dealmed.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=44 We had them in our jump kit, but the State Compliance inspector pulled them, He stated they are for ALS...

I have been reprimanded by an Er Doc, It only lasted about 10 min, and he kind of ran out of breath, and left mumbling things we don't want our children to hear. The call came in "2 year old pulled a deep fryer down onto himself" This was 30+ miles north, and 1st responders are paged.(they...

This is just unReal! @ 1300 hrs. Today called to a(another) bee sting, and possible heart attach. 21 miles to the scene, 1st responders did get on scene prior to our arrival, had O2 going and a heart start monitor on Pt., There 1st statement was "No shock Indicated" My Initial impression was...

Called out for a bee sting 10 miles north of town today. I had the pleasure of running with my Daughter on this call! Pt. was being driven towards us and we came upon them in 6 min. Pt was anxious, labored breathing, Chest pain, Hives, swollen sting site. Knee area left leg. able to talk...

This weekend our service was dispatched to a Sauna fire with burn vic's(2430hrs)., the LEO's arriving requested a 2nd rig, and an intercept. 1st unit on scene requested 2 choppers, and 1more ALS unit, and two mutual aid units(ALS) and two more choppers. 4 young adults trapped in a sauna with...

My wife and i started in EMS 27 years ago, She retired and i should but...... Anyway, Our youngest daughter and son-in-law are both EMT's. They have a 7 year old boy. Logan. After an emergency C-section with Logan, Deb and Anton were seeing speciaists, as adding to the family wasn't going as...

The Pt. was able w/help and a walker to make it to the stretcher. This was an older Mobile home, and all the usual presentation of someone in this condition. We were lucky, next time Pt. may not be ambulatory. We have a meeting with 1st responders about a possible next time, however we feel...

Anyone found this in a cell phone? Its in mine. This link will explain ICE http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700879.html

New to this forum From up north Minnesota. 27 years in EMS still plugging along. signed on to find information on 800 megahertz radio systems. We will be implementing this new system this fall and have questions about it. Haven't searched the past forum yet. Gregor