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Hey y'all I'm Brittany and I just recently graduated from high school and I am going to start EMT basic classes in January! I've struggled a little with figuring out what I wanted to become and eventually realized that my heart always knew what my head didn't and that is to become a EMT paramedic! I am more excited about starting classes and becoming an EMT and then eventually a paramedic than I have been about anything in my life, every day that's goes by I get more butterflies in my stomach and I was just wondering if y'all have any advice for me about EMT basic classes??

I had forgotten the entertainment value contained within this thread. It did not disappoint even two years out!

I just took the initial PHTLS course at Deconnes level 2 trauma center in Evansville, Indiana and it was the best most informative course yet as far as instructors, I highly recommend it to anybody in the Indiana area.

Hepatic encephalopathy can cause a lot of behavioral changes

Bladder infections in the elderly.

This is one of the most well thought out and well written posts I've seen on this thread.

There seems to be some miscommunication. I am merely saying, that LESS EMOTIONAL is better for "EMERGENCY WORK". Emergency work demands a person be CALM and CONFIDENT in situations that would make MOST NORMAL PEOPLE break down in tears and cry uncontrollably. [Note by Dwayne: Liked by me not because I necessarily agree with everything said but for the attempt to stay in the conversation and make their point more clear and less offensive. Like the opinion or not, I respect the willingness to stay engage and debate.]

Sorry to go off topic since medicgirl is looking for help, but I'm sensing a troll. Check out these girls:

If you are not affected by the crap we see in this field then you are either burnt out and need help or you have no conscience and should not be in the field. We all have those pts that affect us. With experience we learn to shut it off in a part of our mind while we care for the pt and continue with the shift. Once you are safely away from pt care, you MUST open that box and deal with it. If you don't, you will fall apart. We all have different ways of dealing with it. Find a healthy way and do it (drinking doesn't count unless it is a single, therapeutic drink with a caring friend). Talk to someone who can understand what you are going through, talk to someone who can't understand what you are going through but will listen and support you anyway. Take up kick boxing or weight lifting, go for a run. Do something but don't keep it boxed off in your head.

Good AM, GDay or Guten Morgen ... et all. Lets do a bit of a statistical "tally" at this part of the movie shall we ? So far and based on the scenario provided by the good Doctor, firstly some support for his initial question progressing to gentle advice then more suggestive advice, morphing into (and missed) satire and (windshiel washer fluid LOL Dwayne) then an intent go completely off topic and ridecule you that you Sir SD did not pick up. Counting: A couple of Aussies, a Kanukistanian or 2, multiple truly respected veteran members of EMT City, those with thousands of intelligent posts on the topic of Pre Hospital Care Medicine and some old enough they are retired from some of the busiest and most dangerous stations in the free world. This cross section covers all the way from Coonassville to the Yonkers to the Midwest, in passing your own countrymen. I suspect that the Hitler reference did not go over well with our German / Bavarian friends, just saying. But that's not all: Called OUT by a highly respected ER MD, may god have mercy on your soul if zilla "Tactical MD" (he has spanked my bare ass in past) or if Dust wanders across this thread. A couple of the above have spent a few vacations in the sandbox, some deployed there today besides some other "austere" hostile settings that would you sir SD would make you shit in your Diaper's. In of the few Rez's I have worked pepper spraying an angry man with a dog would result in a dog pile style beating from bystanders, hell just packing a "puppy the bounty hunter canister or cuffs" on your bat belt would mark you as a ROOKIE just looking for a "tune up". Then a "BUS" a "RA" a Rescue Ambulance, come on bro, this is jargon used by posers ONLY, take the hint it's not too late to pull up your boots straps. I will sheepishly / openly admit and in the words of Charlie Sheen: It has amused ME. Yes, I have baited you because you are a reflexive poster and with some glee (my bad ?) just to see just how far you will dig a hole. Its a hole that you should stop digging as Dwayne has suggested as he supported but politely used the back side of an axe right between your eyes, you still didn't pick it up. <sheesh> The common denominator is that WE as a collective and as a community of professionals are attempting to inform you that your attitude (on -line) is either going to get you in G-Damn serious trouble, lose your practice permit or WORSE. So now .... its now your call .... respect or disgrace.