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I am looking for ideas from both instructors and students on how best to help my class. I am looking mainly on what to give them as far as study tips for the exams. They seem to really be struggling with that. Plus taking notes. Some of my students way of taking notes is to sit in lecture...

Okay everyone that has or is currently working in rural ems I need your help. I volunteer at the school I went to medic school at and I want to give a presentation to the classes on the pros/cons to working rural EMS. Most of the people that come out of this school go on to work in the big...

Has anyone done or is doing a medic to RN program? I am very fortunate in my area to have a program that has just started up and was wondering what other people thought of it? I am seriously thinking about doing it so that I can keep doing the medic as a "hobby" but pay the bills with the...

Okay, questions for those that know more than I. When it comes to pediatrics and exposure to alcohol, is there a difference in their presentation of alcohol poisoning than that of adults? What would set severe intoxication apart from poisoning, especially in a pediatric pt? The reason I ask...

I am curious as to how aggressively your service treats hypotension? Here is why I ask: 46y/o M described by family as a "heavy drinker" who stopped drinking approx 3 days prior to your call. This day the pt was loading things into a truck when he had a syncopal episode and "seizure like"...

Question for you all, do your services have standing orders for bicarb administration during a cardiac arrest? I know we have a thread for bicarb, but its doesn't answer this question. I am just curious if it is standing orders somewhere, because at both the services I work for it has to...

Does anyone use the zoll E series? What do you think of it? Any have sore backs from trying to carry it? We have been using it for the past couple of months and I have had a love/hate relationship with it. Has anyone had any problems with it? And if you do have it, does its relative size...

Just curious to what people's protocols are to pt who have consumed excessive amounts of ETOH and are refusing transport. What about if they admit to having consumed a great deal of ETOH, are still pretty well oriented and refusing transport? Our protocols say they must be mentally competent...

Say, does anyone carry ALS things in their own personal emt bag? I am just curious about what people choose to carry in their bags in their car or home. I am considering carrying O2 (I know it is not ALS) and maybe an IV set up, but I am afraid that the O2 might be dangerous if I should be in...

I lost my first pt tonight, bad MVC rollover. I know I screwed up on a million things, about the only things that I felt went right was the IV and the combitube, although I should have done it sooner. But according to the doc there was nothing else I could have done (although I can think of...

Does anyone's service allow pain meds for abdominal pain? Our service does not and when asked the md's state it is their belief that the problem cannot be adquetly assesed if the pain has been relieved. Thoughts? The reason I ask is I work at a service where it is medic & EMTB, and right...

Does anyone know of a good book to learn pharmacology better than what they teach in medic school? I know my drugs but not as a comfortable I would like to be with them. I would like to understand them rather than just know them.

I went to a training on MCIs tonight and a question came up that got us thinking, so I thought I would put to all of you: During an MCI and you are the 1st truck on scene, do you stay until all pts are transported or if you have multiple critical pts, do you take the most critical and split if...

Hello everyone, I am knew to the forum and a brand new paramedic. I just recently obtained a full-time position and a casual on two different services. I just want to make sure I am not the only one who has/is going "Oh ----, I am the medic now". I have been a Basic for 4 years, but is still...