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  1. Martyn

    The deadly toll of a US ambulance shortage

    https://www.abcactionnews.com/scripps-news-investigates-the-deadly-toll-of-a-us-ambulance-shortage
  2. Martyn

    Choosing EMT course

    How times change...13 years ago when I qualified my course was 3 days a week for 5 months!!!
  3. Martyn

    Two people die in helicopter crash in Florida

    Medevac helicopter https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66623809
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    Ambulance carrying a patient crashed...

    https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/ambulance-carrying-a-patient-crashed
  5. Martyn

    Londonderry man jailed for urinating on ambulance kit

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64513781
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    A happy story...

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64226359
  7. Martyn

    New legislation could expand mental health care for first responders

    https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/expanded-mental-health-care-for-first-responders
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    Crisis Center of Tampa Bay works to help fix EMT shortage through apprenticeships

    https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/01/26/crisis-center-of-tampa-bay-working-to-fix-emt-shortage-in-community
  9. Martyn

    Medic no more...

    Once a medic, always a medic...good luck to you in whatever path you choose
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    Trauma Shears Recommendations?

    I can easily take my Raptors apart for 'deep cleaning'
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    Thoughts on RNs being allowed to challenge Medic exam?

    A bit like making a firefighter an EMT or paramedic (can of worms now open)
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    Palpating a BP

    In training I was taught that when you take a BP the normal way it is written 124/68, if you palpate a BP then it is written down 124/P... THEREFORE, NO DIASTOLIC! (Lowest BP I have ever taken was 54/P, little old lady who was AOx4 chatting away)
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Ha ha...MBT are my initials. And no, I'm not built like one
  14. Martyn

    AEMT Help

    OUCH...shot down in flames or what!
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    EMT with panic disorder?

    Sorry to be hard, and others have also mentioned this, is this the right job for you? Had a classmate back when I qualified get a job with Americare in Tampa, during transport pt went in to cardiac arrest and he panicked and just sat there doing nothing, the EMT driving had to swap out and get...
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    Should EMS follow nurse's lead and go on strike?

    Been listening to all the rumors about how bad the NHS and social medicine is, are we? And FiremanMike, yes that's all the doctors make over there. That is part of what is wrong with the healthcare system over here, money money money. I would take the NHS over medicine provision over here any...
  17. Martyn

    Appendicitis.... Cardiac issue

    Change of subject (I know) but I transported a 2 yr old male on Viagra once so a 14 yr old on ASA don't raise my eyebrows lol
  18. Martyn

    Should we have done something different for this trauma call?

    Looking through those Az protocols I noticed something odd, it says on the skills 'Rectal small volume nebulizer'...I am hoping that they missed the line separating these two skills o_Oo_O
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    Car crashes into ambulance in Pinellas Park, 5 transported to hospital...

    https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/car-crashes-into-ambulance-in-pinellas-park-5-transported-to-hospital
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    Hospitals doing Procedures on Gurney

    So...no more queuing up in the ER. just dump them in the coffee bar round the corner...it's only 50 feet from the ER entrance!!!
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