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Briefly describe your department's/service's EMS delivery model (FD, Third Service, Private, etc): County based EMS system in western NC with 8 24 hour trucks. What is your approximate run volume? Our call volume is approximately 15-16k calls a year. Who does QA/QI at your...

The big issue is reimbursement. Walking to the ambulance is allowed but if a patient ambulates into the ER insurance may or may not reimburse and they won’t reimburse at ALS rates if a medic treated. I like the spirit of your thread and I like for a patient to ambulated if possible. Especially...

The RATS is not a good tourniquet and has been tested by a couple of independent groups and has been shown to not completely occlude blood flow confirmed by doppler. Its also no CoTCCC approved at this time due to the issues presented by multiple independent studies. I prefer the CAT T as well...