Chief1C

Perhaps your state EMS website would better answer some of your questions. Going by the location and avatar, while I believe it's shaped like the Dakota on the bottom. I'll provide both. Nebraska: http://www.nebems.com/ Dakota's: Top One http://www.ndhealth.gov/ems/ Bottom One http://dps.sd.gov/emergency_services/emergency_medical_services/default.aspx NREMT: http://www.nremt.org/

I add a good luck or a take care in to every patient, provided the patient wasn't a violent prick.

We provided door and car window decals with our Vial of Life kits... So, would-be-rescuers would know to look in the fridge, or the glove box, for said pill-bottle-looking-device. WalMart and the local news station did something similar. I could scan one, along with our old training night forms for patient assessment. But with only a few, well seasoned souls left, we don't do training nights anymore.

Funny... The ads at the bottom of the page are: Peer Support Services Specializing in Peer and Forensic Peer Support Services in PA www.peerstarllc.com Psychiatric Rehab Center Mental Stabilization & Long-Term Treatment Approach. Learn More Now! www.morningsiderecovery.com Schizophrenia Disorder Find Information & Resources For Schizophrenia Disorder. LearnAboutSchizophrenia.com Maybe it has some particular user in mind? Nothing wrong with seeking help, just sayin'

Speaking of rainbows... Here we go.... This is my favorite version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBKa-bCasY

Who's your instructor? Capt. Morgan? I hung out with Capt. Morgan most of the night, so long that I didn't wake up till almost 1430. http://www.mooremedical.com/index.cfm?PG=CTL&CS=HOM&FN=ProductDetail&PID=14911

That's a good ID... 9 Orange Letters... I get it. Anyhoo.. I use the top of my forearm, just nearest my wrist. That seems to be the most sensitive portion of my arm. On thermometers. I believe it was '08.. We had just switched to a temporal scanner, from digital probe types, for safety. Ordered them on a Thursday, arrived on a Friday, just after we returned from a bad call. The kind where all you want to do is curl up in a ball and cry. Move to Monday, hanging out in the station, still totally bumming about the call, everyone is grumpy, not really talking, looking like death under a banana tree. Decide to break the ice by unpacking the box of stuff from Moore. Put various shit away, opened the new temporal scanner, put the batteries in it. See how it works.. That can't be right. Feel for a pulse in the temple, use it again. No, what a POS. Other guy tries it. Ambulance capt. steps in, tries it. Normal. Tries it on the other guy again. 104 point something. Our patient that died, a child, had a rare, deadly secret that was passed on to the rescuers, five in all. Had to take antibiotics for two months. But I really like the temporal scanner thermometers, they're almost perfectly accurate if you use them over the ear, instead of the temple.

Hazing, hell, I'd kiss peoples ass to get them to become active. You couldn't imagine the amount of money put into recruitment and retention over the past twenty years. If it is a volunteer agency, this dude has to go. I've spent about 60 hours in a classroom, learning how to be an effective EMS leader, and I'm not even in charge. I just do the paperwork, but I'm the PR guy. I try to convey the "join our family" message to people, not join our kick ass fraternity. There's no room for an attitude like this in modern EMS. Just sayin'

Merry Christmas

When we have a call, where there is violence involved, or an "unsafe scene" in regard to something also involving law enforcement. We're not told the location. We're ordered to hold in quarters, or hold at a specific location. They don't tell us the address, until PD arrives and secures the scene. Sometimes, that can be an extensive time, as we have no police staffing on certain nights of a month. So, they have to come from where ever the hell it is they live. I can live with that, despite some details that haunt me on occasion. Oh yeah, I have some nice pills for some of the stuff I've seen. You see, every. single. person.. that lives in this community, lives here, not visits, not weekends, lives here. I know them. Hundreds, not thousands, but hundreds. I know them, I know their family, their kids. They have problems just like everyone else. Sometimes, bad shit happens close to home, and someone's gotta deal with that bad shit. Some folks can get around policies, by not being completely honest when calling for help. Some situations just warrant, allowing us to go above and beyond, to put our life before someone else. I'll crawl into a burning house, and die trying to find someone that can't get out. But if you're down on your luck, and holding a shot gun. Fuck you, I am not getting shot to talk you down. Let someone with a gun level the playing field, and talk you down; but I'll gladly listen to your problems, after you've been searched and strapped to the stretcher.

Someone in the service related the other day, after a suicide-attempt call, a similar thought process on the song "If I Die Young". Stating that it sounds like a tale of teen suicide. Possibly. But it's a catchy tune, in fact I usually sing along... and I have not yet had the urge to kill myself. Just sayin'

Bluntly, he sounds like an asshole... and after fifteen years, well, seven days shy of it; there's a lot of assholes in the fire service and EMS. There's respect, and there's being civil. I can respect someone, but if they piss me off, I let them know. If they're disrespectful, we %#@!in settle that shit quick. Stand up for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheScarySnowman I was laughing so hard, I had to stop and walk away to catch my breath.. This shit is seriously hilarious. Dude in a snow man casting that scares people. I love it! And I want one.

Seems reasonable.

It seems to be a popular tune for the bar. I ended up yelling at some poor girl I've never seen before, something along the lines of it being played 11 times in three hours for christ sakes. I realize some folks will do anything to try to get laid, but playing the same song, every other song, for a drunk blonde with no class... PUHLEEZE! I gave the DJ $20 for the CD, and tossed it over the balcony into the ravine.

We started using ReadyHeat II, 12 Panel self-warming blankets for wilderness rescues over a year ago. We used linen packages from like Sears, with the clear plastic and zipper to make "Hypothermia Packs". Just quick grab of stuff we typically use, but more than will fit in our SAR medical bag. You can also put IV bags in mylar sheets; and wrap them up with the ReadyHeat; and by the time you need them, they're warm. http://www.techtradellc.com/ready_heat_II.shtml

While we have the stryker tracked stair chair, as a former Ferno rep, I get cards with new products to hand out. They're now marketing a powered stair chair. I won't sell a product on a forum post, so feel free to look into it. However, I've yet to find a situation where I wasn't 100% comfortable with the tracked chair powered by myself. Prior to a lawsuit, Stryker had a set of tracks that were retro fit to their rugged cots. That allowed you to level out the cot, and pull it up and down stairs. The downside, you couldn't really control or stop it. If you have a set of them, consider yourself lucky; as far as a marketing failure. Not entirely, that's where the track-assist chairs came from.

You missed the, nearly invisible on purpose, line under that. I'm gonna dye my hair blonde, when it grows back, paint my nails black, wear black lipstick and black eye shadow and go emo, too, I think. Because that's what all the cool kids are doing; and I look really young.

Well, with eBay, you can really own anything you want. That's where I would sell said items. One can always bear in mind that devices can be tracked via serial number.

The Stryker rep quoted the stretcher at $13,999 and the loading system at $28,500. Yeah. That ain't gonna happen. The Stryker Power Cot is heavy, so.... I like my lightweight Ferno. Just sayin'

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I demand to know who made me.. Because I wanna see the warranty card! I'm damaged, how do I get my spine replaced?

The term "gays" offends me. sarcasm

Yeah, I just got home from the tavern... Had to wait till closing, since obviously, I couldn't (wouldn't is more like it) drive myself home. Yeah, totally didn't hit on any of the other openly gay people, even brushed off one that was hitting on me pretty hard. But I did buy the woman next to me like twenty jello-shots. So, on behalf of my mother, who is expecting grandchildren -and despite me telling her to adopt... I'd like to thank asshol I mean flaming, for curing me of my disease - being gay. Or I might be laying on the sarcasm pretty heavy. Never know. ttfn I say disease... Because mental illness, IMO, is a disease... And you seem to be mentally ill. Therefore, I attribute your level of gaydom to being like bipolar or schizophrenic, rather than actually gay. A troll, troublemaker, lunatic.