TransportJockey
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Lol several of the large FDs here use those and the ems consortium uses them too. Physician scene response for bad calls
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Lol several of the large FDs here use those and the ems consortium uses them too. Physician scene response for bad calls
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Right, but I don't think any department would spend the money on a Range Rover vs. a more utilitarian vehicle. Also, no lights/siren or agency wording anywhere. My guess is a particularly dedicated medical director. Scene response by physicians is all well and good, but if they needed to come out POV would work just as well. Also, I know if we needed to go grab a med control doc from an ED we'd just send a unit over and pick him up.
NomadicMedic
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DE plates?
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Wish I had noticed
Jim37F
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We were posted at a strip mall shopping center, got called back to station to help plan some autumn festival, sent to a different post after that. Call just came out over the radio for a full arrest at the mall where we were this morning. So instead of being practically on scene when the call comes out, another unit 4 min out gets to go
SandpitMedic
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WOOOOOOOOW!! You can't push your own player from behind to power through the offensive line to block a field goal attempt?!?!?! To make the game safer?!?!? What a stupid rule. NFL football is so friggin dumb now. Weak sauce.
Seriously. The coaches were confused.. The players were confused... The announcers were even more confused they are like... " he pushed his own teammate?" "???????" " I don't think I have ever seen that called before."
Lol. Wow.
Seriously. The coaches were confused.. The players were confused... The announcers were even more confused they are like... " he pushed his own teammate?" "???????" " I don't think I have ever seen that called before."
Lol. Wow.
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Worst call in recent memory right there.
EMDispatch
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I'd guess it's either from Albert Einstein Medical Center in PA, which had or has a maroon landrover with EMS physician all over it, or maybe MONOC got one.
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Nahh...my bet is JPINFV got some new wheels and was driving around. :lol:
Amberlamps916
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Your time will come.
Anjel
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That's when I would be thanking the EMS gods and offering sacrifices to the great Motorola.
Jim37F
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Except the EMS Gods then gave me a patient who waited to report that she might have TB until AFTER I was leaning over applying a 12 lead in the back of the ambulance (C/C CP, reality meth withdrawals) right as I'm supposed to be getting off. Oh well, least that was an extra half hours worth of double time for the paperwork lol
I picked up an overtime shift last week, on a 911 truck I hadn't worked before... When checking the truck in the AM, I couldn't get the AutoPulse to work... we got toned out before I could troubleshoot much... and I forgot about it.
In a lull in calls (i.e I finished the book I was reading) in the afternoon, I pulled it out, and along with 2 other medics and a supervisor, we spent 45 minutes trying to get it to work. After calling people and consulting the manual, we figured it out. As I'm strapping it in, guess what happens?
Toned out to a code.
That'll teach me not to tempt the EMS gods. Although I guess it would be worse if we were toned half-way through the troubleshooting....
It ended up being a non-viable, but I endured plenty of ribbing for pulling the dang thing out...
In a lull in calls (i.e I finished the book I was reading) in the afternoon, I pulled it out, and along with 2 other medics and a supervisor, we spent 45 minutes trying to get it to work. After calling people and consulting the manual, we figured it out. As I'm strapping it in, guess what happens?
Toned out to a code.
That'll teach me not to tempt the EMS gods. Although I guess it would be worse if we were toned half-way through the troubleshooting....
It ended up being a non-viable, but I endured plenty of ribbing for pulling the dang thing out...
They're all idiots for not making sure their equipment works.
Ultimately, the AutoPulse is non-essential equipment, while exceptionally useful, we do have a backup (manual compressions). Until we can generate unequivocal data showing improvement in outcomes, its considered an optional intervention.
Also, we respond to codes alongside a supe, who's AutoPulse I knew was functional.
We carry all of our gear required in our jump bags, and fire responds along side us with the same gear. Is it appropriate for us to not check out our unit, but only our bag because we will have a backup?
No, absolutely not, but again, we have a viable backup immediately available for the auto pulse. Its why I didn't worry when we were toned out before getting it to work. Apparently I temped the gods by fixing it...
PotatoMedic
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Are you really getting mad at him for doing a rig check that obviously his cohorts are not doing? You should laugh at the irony of the situation and then find and shoot the people who are normally on the rig.
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Exactly, it wasn't like you would get pulled out of service if it wasn't operating properly, right?