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I personally like the idea of BLS trained with some ALS skills, mainly because that’s what my service does. We are spoiled in that Kansas has a pretty wide scope for all levels of prehospital care, and my service allows us the full scope. It works very well here, because as volunteers we don’t...

For lack of statistics off the top of my head, I am just making an educated guess. All I’m saying is that we have extensive use of ALS in areas like mine where all we have is sub-par level V’s in the area. I don’t know all that much about interventions, but I know there have been patients where...

I see a lot of 50-80s... I had ~138 I believe? I passed. Interesting, how the new adaptive testing is designed to make you fail. The questions get harder the better you answer. And of course they throw in experimental questions. Obviously none of us know how good or bad we did. But my guess is...

KBEMS provides education standards, but as far as scope goes... it takes some searching and reading into things to know. Here are the Ed standards at least. http://www.ksbems.org/ems/scope/guidelines.php

For the mention of rural services with extended travel times... I for one can say that although many services (especially urban and suburban areas) may not necessarily need ALS, it is a crucial part of rural services. Like many in Kansas, our county spans wide enough where there are times it...