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This is a scenario where athletic trainers and equipment managers are your friends and using the old standbys of blankets will come in handy. Everyone above seems agreed on leaving everything in place, removing it will cause more movement simply to try to minimize movement afterwards. Good...

We no longer carry Lidocaine, but when we did the question came back to how "bad" the PVCs were. If the logic was that the lidocaine will slow other impulses to match the PVCs, then were we really helping a sick heart? With so much new focus on testing these interventions we've relied on...

Some depts in Virginia just posted medic jobs with the fire service in the mid 40s a year. Here in the Bay Area salaries vary widely from mid 30s to the 120s a year for Paramedics. Google is your friend and I believe there is a new thread about EMS Employment here as well. Good luck!

The most important thing to keep in mind with C-spine and long spine board application is that they force the body into a non-natural position. i have been boarded for an injury before and I actually suffered a worse injury because of it. I was at a recent lecture here in the East Bay (email...

Actually, HIPAA is very easy to get releases for, the same releases to show people on camera in fact. It amazes me that people don't mind their criminal history in the newspapers but freak if their neighbors find out an ambulance came for their asthma. HIPAA was written for the billers and...

We all know TRAUMA on NBC failed because of the unrealistic portrayal of EMS, but nothing else is portrayed realistically on TV, so what got us all so riled up? There have been a number of neat EMS shows that failed, but I was wondering what you all think makes a good EMS TV Show. Is it a...

held over 4 hours? Is that by request or mandatory?

Since I'm on an engine now, almost always on time at 8am. When on the medic unit it was common to stay 30-45 minutes past change over for one last run. (San Francisco Fire Based EMS)

Hi there My name is Justin Schorr and I'm a Paramedic in San Francisco. I've been taking people to the hospital for almost half my life, the last 15 with any real interest in what it meant aside from just movign folks back and forth. Along the way, got some fancy letters behind my name...

Context Veneficus, Clearly I have offended. My comment you quoted was posted to a website in response to a post about "fad" diagnosis in EMS. The author and I are close friends. He asked if any readers had their own "favorite fad diagnosis" to which I responded with the quote you posted...