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Grab your partners cell phone when he/she isn't looking and respond to one of those text to chat commercials on TV. Their phone will blow up with texts until they figure out the stop code. Depending on the type of ambulance you have, grab sheets and spray a big Superman S or whatever symbol...

Its different for each area. I work in Fresno CA so its pretty busy. I work a 24 hr shift @ a rural station that averages 3-4 calls a day with a 1-2 hr transport time and then 2 12 hour metro shifts where I'm in the city averaging 6-10 calls a shift. The system itself averages 500 calls a...

Hey guys! Is anyone on here from Louisiana or has ever worked in EMS there? I'm looking to re-locate there.

I think the most important thing you need to ask yourself is why you want to do this job. and I'm not saying that to be jaded or cynical I've seen a lot of new EMTs and medics come into EMS with rose-colored glasses and a heart of gold be greatly disappointed by the difference between what they...

The only two EMT-I certs I know of are the EMT-I 85 and EMT-I 99, per NREMT anyway. I believe the difference is the EMT-I 85 is IV, ETT and like 7-8 drugs allowed to administer while the EMT-I 99 allows for cardiac monitoring and further resp treatments as well (almost a paramedic but not...

I live in Cali and we have the same saying along with HP-hispanic panic. I don't think its racist or makes someone a bigot when you notice social or ethnic trends. We have stereotypes for a reason, people fit them. Sorry, had to get that out. Back to acronyms!

Since its ok to call medics douchebags EMT-Empties Medics Trash

Dispatch: Medic 145 P2 for ingestion @ Bal's Liquor Medic 145: Copy, en route. Confirm Bal's Liquor? Dispatch: That's affirm, pt states he swallowed something funny while working. Medic 145: I bet he did

Had a drunk climb into the back of a PD K9 car with the dog inside. After we were able to pull him out with several bites to the legs, he told us he thought it was a taxi. Also had a homeless frequent flyer who had run out of legit complaints so he told us his nipples hurt, LOL

Had a particularly difficult drunk pt who kept proceeding to tell me and the cops exactly what was going to happen and how we were going to do it (regardless of the fact that he was in custody). The cop finally had enough and informed the pt that this was not Burger King and he was not going to...