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    What service you work for??

    What service you work for??
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    what would you do about this pay rate yours/vs new employees?

    What part of tennessee you work for? I work for a county service up in Overton County TN.
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    What is your protocols for admin of IV NS

    at my service we usually start a saline lock and draw blood most everyone that will allow it...except for certain situations such as 4am tooth pain...but we dont hang a bag unles we need it
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    B4 Medic School

    Well...i have just finished my first semester as were out now for christmas break. with 200 hours of clinicals done and 400 more my only suggestion is dont get overwhelmed. I saved my vacation days all year just so I could use them to take a break every once in a while. So far it has not been...
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    Just got back from New Orleans!!

    They still need alot of work getting it run correctly. We run 60 hours straight. Breaks were not given. There was no accuantibility of personell. Also, there were no supply of fuel. They need to have refueling stations set up because on Sat. everything in new orleans was out of fuel or closed...
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    XBOX 360!! Help please.

    get the 20 gig...if you get a cooling fan that doesnt plug into the xbox usb port for power. make sure the cooling fan has its on power supply or there has been reports of it frying the xbox. i have the 20 gig and love it
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    Just got back from New Orleans!!

    Well, my team consisting of 15 EMS units and 30 people just got back home. We were one of the groups evacuting the hopitals in New Orleans and Layfayete. Me and my partner were tasked mainly with University Hospital in New Orleans. We took NICU patients to Baton Rouge. At the end we went to...
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    What drugs should be given?

    here at my service the 3 hour window no longer applies to us. Vanderbilt, St. Thomas and Skyline in nashville have new procedures that are working as far out as 16 hours with postive results. No age restricition either. we sent a 95 year old woman with majior deficits. Majior facial droop..one...
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    Well i've done it now!!

    Finally took the plunge....sent my papers in for medic school. Going to be a fun filled year. :blink:
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    Your moniker-what's it mean?, why did you pick it?

    Because it looked cool of course. Can't just go commit suicide looking trashy. :P
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    Roll Up for The Medical Mystery Tour!

    Both true...to many variables to really guess from just description you gave. Of course truthfully you could not provide enough info. for us. There will always someone wanting to know more...lol
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    Your moniker-what's it mean?, why did you pick it?

    another history buff is see. thanks
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    Your moniker-what's it mean?, why did you pick it?

    yes...it was also kamikaze....but it dates back farther than that in japan. Back to the day of the samurai. Knowing that the public at large would not approve of suicide raids they perverted the old teachings. Before a samurai was defeated they would fall on their own sword. Then a divinewind...
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    Roll Up for The Medical Mystery Tour!

    that depends...if he was killed instantly then probably not to much since the heart would have been stopped. If left to beat for a few minutes a considerlbe amount.
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    Your moniker-what's it mean?, why did you pick it?

    I have used this monkier for years. In japan warriors that died a glorious death in battle were picked up by a divinewind and took to the afterlife. I took the 007 from James Bond. He had a license to kill....for me i say this is my license to heal. :P
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    Buried one of our own yesterday...

    Yesterday we had a funeral for our Director's husband. He was a pioneer in EMS. He served 30 years at our service. He had to retire about 10 years ago because of health issues but he was always around since his wife is our director. He had numerous health problems and we all knew he wouldn't be...
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    Anyone Here From Kentucky??

    I am from TN/ KY border. My old house was a bout 5 minutes from the line.
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    What made you get into EMS?

    well my whole family and I were volunteer firefighters for years then my Dad made the transition to first responder, then EMT, then Medic. 3 years later he rubbed off on me i guess and i signed up and i loved it. Mom however went and got her LPN. Although we finally wore her down and she got her...
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    Diabetic Run!

    He was awake but he was definetely not with it. He could not follow any commands. He would sometimes go out of conciousness for short periods. We would get him to come back around with painful stimuli only. We did not give it too him because we did not think he would be able to swallow it and we...
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    Diabetic Run!

    i knew that there was a sitiuation where glucagon was ineffective i just could not remember the specifics. Everytime i had used it before it worked great so it still caught me off guard when it did not pull him out of it. Of course thats why we ran emergency just in case it didnt help. Still, it...
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