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The company I work for in Memphis tn hires emt externs who are CPR certified emt students who drive while they are in school and getting licensed.

I live in Memphis where the helicopter was based out of. That morning the weather went from decent to a huge lightening storm in about a 45 minute time period. Everything that I've heard said they had just dropped off a patient from the children hospital here in Memphis and got caught in the storm.

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I did it more to cover myself in the event that she started becoming symptomatic.

I had a patient the other day i was taking for a fall in her nursing home, all her vitals were wnl except when I took her sugar and wrote it down, she asked what it was. It was 94. She then says "oh no, that's really low. My sugar is usually around 170" she has no history of dm. The patient...

My service uses combitube. Tennessee has been talking about creating a third teir emt called "EMT-Advanced" which will be able to set up and do some EKG reading, and ET tubes as well as IO. I am pretty sure that they are close to getting that underway because they are making BLS ambulances...

That's the way that I wish my service was, but they are far more interested in making money than they are patient care, so they do bare minimum in enabling us to actually do what we're trained to do.

I work for a service that does mostly transports and a few nursing home emergencies. Our dispatchers are trained on how to dispatch, but not what anything in the medical field means. We received a call for respiratory distress and altered mental status, and dispatch was kind enough to inform...

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I did a quick search and didn't really find anything that helped answer my question. Sorry if this is a re-post and I didn't see it. Anyway, I have had this discussion with a few folks where I work at in memphis, tn. I was wondering what the legality around providing aid to a patient...