Chief1C

Resuscitation, EVO and Defensive Driving, Emergency Responder, Rescue Practices, Driving x 2 years w/ no serious moving violations, Privacy and Bloodbourne Pathogens Courses and ICS.

Everyone on the ambulance, needs a minimum level of knowledge, before they get on the ambulance. Paramedics, EMT's, FR's, Attendants, Operators, etc. They all need to be able to *at least, set up or assist in application of X, for the patient provider. While I support my opinion, that an ambulance operator does not need to be a highly certified EMS person, I do believe in a minimum level of care on their part.

The slang, Volly, Vollie, et al., offends me.

What ever happened to just being there, for the people, who need help?

On a side note, the National EMS Museum has done a superb job, updating their website. http://www.emsmuseum.org/

"Commonwealth" of Pennsylvania

We need a modern Mother, Jugs & Speed.. With Chucky in it.

Sure, write them off, I'm sure the IRS will notify you of any discrepancies.

Don't know then.. I had to stop sharing JEMS articles with the local students. I got harped on for sharing Bledsoe's article on the Myth of Oxygen. Their instructors are sorely out of date. I like outspoken opinions that make people think. EMS can't be healthy, or safe. It's just not possible. You cannot avoid the stress, if you aren't phased by it at all, then you've got something going on "up stairs". Hide the guns. No ambulance is safe to work in, as long as we have the option to transport two victims. They need to be built like a tank, with a padded, rolling, interior. Probably the best thing they could do for health, is put a gate at the entrance to fast food places, with a height restriction, so the ambulance won't fit. We need a bigger EMS Memorial than the firemen have.. Maybe with bronze busts of the people there and we need a Museum too. There's a couple fire museums in every state. There's only been one set in stone place to honor the founding of EMS, and it closed. Cops prolly have museums. Hell.. The funeral profession, has museums. Need a blanket article, for all Newspapers. Never seen anything, about EMS Week.. "EMS Prevention" aka CVA, Heart Disease, Diabetes, etc. prevention programs, etc.. Fire Prevention week is like a goddamn holiday. See.. Now I'm stressed out. Sarcasm.

I posted a positive for a user. It's not there. So, I'm going to assume someone negatived the positive. I had the urge to down one person. Everyone has their opinion, and then some people I'd just like to hit with my heavy, glass, MASH Vodka/IV thing. Sensitive subject, if it directly affects you. Doesn't me. I have no need for New Jersey, seriously. But, I have no sympathy for the volunteers who fear progress. I spent all eleven years I've been an EMT, fighting against people that think like that. Made some high marks, too, made some enemies. But in the end, everyone was a little better off, and some people are still pissed off. I look at it this way. Why now? Suddenly, all this expensive change, in New Jersey EMS. Why? Because they're thirty years behind, they've been fighting to keep things "simple". EMS ain't simple, and this is what they have to pay for, literally and figuratively, for dragging their feet for over thirty years. I get the NJFAC Newsletter, why, I have no idea, it's been coming for several years. It can be interesting. It's like reading about the local services, if the date on the cover were 1978. I like their articles on recruitment and retention. Our goal is moving on, to a bigger and brighter future, with paid staffing and a medic unit. It will happen, we fought hard to get to a position to make it possible. Now, we build to that goal. I have no problem, with a volunteer agency, with a goal. If they're fighting tooth and nail to stay in the past, go join a country club, EMS isn't a hobby.

I could use something to kill the stress. I can get very agitated when people piss me off. I just bottle it up, and take it out on the next person that pulls the cork out.

A what?

Maybe someone that bought one of those horrible exercise videos of his. (I gave him a + btw)

I think that A.J. Heightman guy would be a good voice to represent all of EMS. I like his articles.

My dentist has a sign with a jingle like that in his office. Only it says, "A lack of planning on your part, does not constitute an emergency on mine".

I believe I did. I don't feel that rural municipalities should try to shoot from the hip, and run emergency services. Has nothing to do with big cities and mass population areas. Some companies may be good ole boy. But a lot of the politics are run by the good ole boy club too.

Hear of it happening all too often. The town doesn't like what you're doing, they lock you out, or take your equipment away. "Why don't you do it our way". Often municipalities, run by common folks, with no education in politics, their main duty is road master, and taxing. They don't know how to run emergency services. They only have a slight idea, which is what I would equate to what the ambulance may have been run like, say, when it was founded in 1951. So, we want to operate now, in 2010, and be paid in two years; and they want us to operate in 1951, on a 1951 budget. But they have no say in it, b/c their hand ain't in this pot. Sure, they could tell us we aren't allowed to respond in their town, but that's just going to get them sued. In a lot of places, the town, county, township, etc., own either the building or the title of the vehicle is in their name, b/c they may pay the insurance. Even though fund raising or billing, paid for the equipment. At least if you're independent, all they can do is say, we'll get someone else to provide the coverage. Chances are, even if those units are in the township's name, the equipment on it wasn't paid for by them. That's your theft right there.

That would be the Stare of Life.

You have to bill for services.. How would you pay for anything? In PA, if EMS gets taxes, you can't bill. With a tax and subscription combined, with our population, we'd not last a single year. The subscription wouldn't even cover our insurance. I just forked out over $1700 just for a minor equipment upgrade. Probably about 70% of our calls, are for people who don't subscribe. Billing them, pays the bills, per se. Billing the insurance of our subscribers, a requirement by law, pays the bills. The firemen get a tax, a very low tax, it's all people can afford. There's less than 6K people in the entire county. If EMS got a tax, not to be confused with EMS-Emergency Management Services Tax, we'd get the short stick, and end up with everyone shut down and one ambulance for the whole county.

Morphine for N/V/D? Where do I sign up?

Good reason you shouldn't have municipalities involved with running emergency services. In some way, theft will be an issue. The article isn't very clear on what the problem is exactly. Seems to me, the "rescue squad" wanted to go paid, and the township wants to prevent that so people won't be billed. Let the firemen get a different hobby, and let the ambulance evolve.

http://www.surfthechannel.com/cat/61406.html I just watched House on this link, not even on Fox Direct yet. 8pm is not a good time for me, esp. on Mondays. It was better on Sundays. I haven't watched Trauma since the first episode. I suppose in a few years, I'll watch it in syndication.

Like the gas companies drilling here. Just some horrible safety related accidents by them and their contractors. Safety issues. It's easier for them to pay the fine, than it is to shut down. The coal mines won't be shut down, unless they have absolutely unacceptable conditions. Well, I think who ever inspected the mine before this accident, needs to be in the same boat as the mine owner. Death, in a mine, seems to be acceptable. It's a dangerous job, I get that, my great grandfather died from black lung. Our cemeteries are full of stones from people who died in the mines. One or two a month, for decades. It's dangerous, human error accidents can be prevented 100%. Natural occurrences can't be prevented all the time. Mines have gas, they have dust, they're tombs of flammable material, all natural and given. But man can remove the gas, remove the dust, crib roofs. Mine ventilation technology has been available for more than a hundred and thirty years.. Coal dust is like saw dust, it'll burn hotter than the flames of hell, real quick. All they have to do is take it out, don't let it pile up. Man failed to keep the miners safe, and it was recorded in numerous violations. That mine, IMO, should not have been in operation, whoever knew about it, and had the ability to shut it down, should be on the same level as the mine operator. Hundred years ago, the widows would have settled up by killing the mine operator. Twenty-nine lives, I think that'd be a fair punishment. I hope they charge him for every life lost.

It didn't mention anything about the woman, really. She could have been hearing impaired. If you rely on that alarm, solely, as a measure of safety - without a spotter - even if you've done it a thousand times. That's where the term complacency comes in.. and Complacency does kill people, usually us, but those who are unaware of what task we are executing get caught in the mix too. I don't see where the woman could be at fault. Unless she jumped out from behind a bush, and put her head under a tire, with a suicide note in her pocket, it's all on the crew. I had the window open before Dwayne replied, so excuse any similar comments. I was busy downing copious amounts of Gatorade.

Paramedics mistakenly declare people dead, because rural coroners lack any formal "training"?