Chief1C

I hate patients that expect to be carried, because that's what they do on television.

I hate patients, and anyone for that matter.. that feels we owe them something because they pay taxes. As if we don't pay taxes too, and prolly make far less than they do. F**king bastards. Okay, maybe I have an anger issue.

It doesn't sound like an "S" tube. I've seen those, we even have a set of them on the ambulance. I'd like to see a photo, b/c over the past 60 years there have been so many different devices made to try and improve prehospital care (especially before EMS), it's almost impossible to guess.

$59 for big shears? Can't you just buy a set of bolt cutters, hell you could but a few for that price. Or a case of trauma shears.

B.A.L.S & D.I.C.. heh. Sounds like a funny movie, comes out in late August. Remember, entertainment only.

Down. Ducks.. Feathers..

:roll:

Depends what is in the vomit, before it bothers me. Digested blood is a big one. However, a septic wound is always worse in the odor category.

I suggest speaking with an attorney that specializes in medical law and billing.

I would have written in the PCR that "EMT or Medic # XXXXXX" requested that the patient be boarded, but not fully immobilized, strapped, etc. That way, when it came time for a posterior to be kicked, it could be directed in the proper manner.

If you didn't put the straps on in the house, you could have put them on in the back of the ambulance.

2%

Well it won't help anyone if they disable the ambulance pushing people out of the way, now would it?

Does it matter? Both, our bottles and IV bags are .9% Sodium Chloride. I prefer to use NaCl for irrigation, when covering broken or damaged tissues. I'll use sterile water to flush away dirt, etc, however. It is easier to obtain the bottles, locally, where as the IV bags would have to be ordered. We keep bags of NaCl in our burn kits, just because they fit better than bottles.

Dust's Military "Surplus" Store? Conveniently located near a warehouse, in Iraq.

A picture of an ambulance on fire.

Find a picture of a medic in one of those goofy red, blue and orange 70's ambulance jackets.

enough to keep the bag inflated properly. 10 or 12 should do it.

Unless you seen them wreck it, who knows how it happened or what went where. Last summer, we had ATV accidents on a regular basis. Only one person, out of probably close to three dozen, was uninjured. I'd board her, just b/c of the MOI, it doesn't take much to throw a kid off an ATV. The most deadly ones I've seen, all they did was fall off. Adults, fall victim to the "watch this" stories, usually have multi systems trauma. Plywood and picnic tables :roll: do not lead to anything good. Head injuries, Thoracic spine fractures, pelvic injuries and lower extremity fractures or lacerations seem to be the norm for children and ATV accidents around here. She's nine years old, has too much time left in life for a mistake to be made now.

Find.... A user that will donate $50 today, to EMT City.

A picture of a purple, non-photo shopped, Ambulance.

I have one of those orange boxes with the demand valve from LSP. Cost wise, UOE is the way to go, you get two tanks, two set ups, one case. Same price as an LSP kit. I prefer a BVM, but I've had the opportunity to use the demand valve on multiple occasions and I do like them. Mine has the valve to use it as an inhalator as well, I find it useful for firemen who've gotten a little smoke. They seem to feel better breathing in forced oxygen, rather than just a mask, able to control how much they get and when.

**Suggests a beating... with something hard and flat, like a hockey stick, or a piece of lumber.

They had to be complete morons to fall for that anyway..

UOE of Houston Texas makes resuscitator units, the old way. You can pick up a dual cylinder outfit with a yoke and an oxygen powered resuscitator and aspirator. The 10800A is a real nice model, again, made like they were back in the days when everything on the ambulance was heavy. We don't use it for the ambulance, however, it's more of a disaster type device. You can run a mask, and two demand valves off of it no problem. I'll throw on the link, now it may look like a museum, but I assure you it's not. http://www.uoequipment.com/index.htm