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What books do you have in your library to review? I have: My Basic Book Intermediate book with workbook AHA BLS Book EMS Documentation Bate's Guide to Physical Exams and History Taking Rapid Interpretation of EKGs The last three are ones I bought to expand my knowledge. What do you have...

Besides what your service and hospitals recommned for CEUs what else do you take? Since joining this forum I've become a major advocate for further education. I signed up for human bio, concepts of chem, psych and medical terminology for the fall semester. After which I'll be eligible to take...

I first responded with my volly dept. the other afternoon to a chest pain call. U/a 84 yo male complaining of chest pain radiating down left arm with a small complaint of sob. Patient stated pain was 8/10 and felt like "an elephant was sitting on his chest". Patient was diaphrotic and pale...

How have you guys handled deaf and mute people when encountering them? I have had a string of incidents where I used broken sign language and writing things on a piece of paper to learn what the chief complaint of the patient was. Maybe I should go learn how to sign? On top of that how do you...

So just over an hour ago my volly service got a call for chest pain. Upon my arrival the male looked fine, no sweating, no difficulty breathing, no nothing basically. I sit him down and start him on 15lpm 02 while I get a set of vitals and do history and get some SAMPLE, OPQRST answered...

Hi everyone, I'm new here and fairly new to EMS. I've been an EMT-B for six months now with a fairly busy commercial service in my area. Before being an EMT I was in the Army as a scout and was a combat life-saver. I'm always trying to learn more and more. I signed up for the pre-allied...