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OMG OMG OMG Got a call back from St. Joesph hospital here in Tampa! So prayers, good thoughts, riturals, any combo there of lol. OMG OMG OMG

I have to stay with cookie cutter answers. If local protocols allow, and the need arises, do what you have to do. Follow your local protocols, or work, with documentation supporting another way, to changing those protocols. Don't follow the new possible protocols until they are made YOUR OFFICIAL Protocols by the medical director.

Don, I thought you knew that deliberately using the Q word like that never works?

I'm not sure about long term transport with patients, or interfacility pysch transports, but if someone is extremely hostile, or if I think they will be hostile our protocols allows 10mg of versed IM. This is only if they have to go with us to the hospital and are not a refusal. (i.e. suicide attempt etc. etc.) I am quick to use it...I have a daughter to go home too, and at that point I don't care to struggle any longer with them. I find it weird that pysch patients are being flown in helicopters via EMS, that's crazy!

I have been in a few situations where I would have loved to use the pit maneuver.... Maybe we could turn it into a revenue situation - have cameras in the ambulance, and when there is a vehicle that won't get out of the way, the driver can touch a button that will take a picture of the offending vehicle's license plate. Then the registered owner of the vehicle will receive a ticket in the mail, much like the photo radar tickets issued now. If the fine $$ amount was high enough, it could encourage people to pay more attention. It could also be like photo radar tickets in this area, where you can't renew your license or insurance without paying the ticket in full. Of course, then we woul.d have to change the front decal to "Move your Ass or Get a Ticket"