Chief1C

I wear traction straps so I don't slip and fall if I have to cross a creek, so the tread really doesn't matter. They're worn from walking on slag piles. I have a brand new pair, I don't have to pay for them.

I think the boots I use for SAR actually have very little tread left. So, if they find shoe shaped ski tracks in the mud, that will be me. I was thinking you were putting a notch in your boots for saves or something, I was about to just post "WHACKERS" in 36 font.

I'm sure there are places in the US where you'll wait that long for an ambulance. You can only have, staff, et al so many units in rural or frontier areas. That's never going to change. I still won't give sympathy for injuries caused by blatant stupidity. If you're going to do something, with a high probability that you'll be injured, in an area w/ no nearby ambulances. May I suggest you have one on stand by? I'm being sarcastic of course. However, we probably would accept the stand by request, provided you pay for it no matter what happens.

Are you suggesting that the dead have no rights?

Chances are, they took it from elsewhere on the internet anyway.

And...? She waited 47 minutes because no ambulance was available? Guess that's something she should consider next time she tries to climb over a steel fence.

I always seems to gift either ppl that never log in, or people that turn out to be assh..ahhhh nevermind. Too bad we can't regift. HA HA HA. Seriously. I try to be nice, and it blows up in my face. I'm never being nice again. Thought I'd throw that out there. 1 Vote for Nifty. That's all I'll say, otherwise I'd feel guilty and offer to gift one myself. Maybe during the next "chat sale".

Where are we?

http://video1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/12/tiger-woods-wife-outrun-video-game.swf

What will their excuse be on the day after the canceled tune up, when the unit fails and someone dies. They may die anyway, but if you can't try, you'll never know, which is the loop hole the prosecution will use to sue them. Cut some costs by switching to "economy brand" disposable supplies, and buy some extra defibrillators, so regular maint. can continue.

One of the elder members picked it out of the old crap, eerrr I mean, vintage stuff, pile in the closet. Different than these, it just goes by different names apparently. Dislocation Splint, Airplane Splint, etc. Looks like something that would require lots of cravats and lots of time.

I don't think it would have been anything that complicated.

Going over some minutes of meetings held in 1977, discussions of what to do with their "new" 1976 Dodge Van, and what to do with their 1964 Cadillac. Anyhoo.. One of the reports shows that the Industrial Arts Dept. of the County High School made and donated air plane splints. I know they have nothing to do with flying a patient, or an actual plane. However, I still haven't the slightest idea, of what an air plane splint is. A Google search wasn't really helpful. So, I'm looking for the answer from old school folks.

How about lost uses for parts of equipment? I always wondered why OLD wooden boards had 8 holes in the foot end. Apparently, that was so the user could build and use a platform to keep one from sliding down the board during vertical lifting.. rather than securing them properly w/ straps.

Crash Dummies?

EMStat. Take notes while you're with the patient, do the PCR on a portable lap top and it automatically forwards it to the hospital for records and your regional or state EMS office for CQI and State-Wide Statistics.

Then they were doing something wrong. Ferno Break-Away Stretcher

Couldn't figure out why we'd be discussing Aqueous Film Forming Foam on EMTCity. I'm sure people die every day, with a fire truck near by equipped with EMS gear. Did they fail to respond, with an ambulance? Who would have gotten there first? The story is missing a lot of key details. Looks like a fail though, but I can't tell how big of a fail, too much "media-i-zation" of the story. That's my word. I'm claiming it.

You work with what you've got. The scoop, aka Orthopedic Stretcher was the bees knees for the longest time, and with no support except a Velcro secured pad on one end at that. The purpose of the Jordan Frame is to lift the patient with out moving them at all. But still, being as I've never used one, nor have I seen the available US device, the Ferno Break-Away Flat used; I still prefer my spine board. But we have trained in using the scoop to place someone into a body vacuum splint; or scooping one onto a spine board. They still sell the Jordan Frame too.. I've just never seen an Australia EMS Supply Catalog, just the versions of multi-national websites, like DynaMed-Galls, Bound Tree, etc.

They're still in catalogs.

I'm gonna start saying Feeble instead of weak. I think the term for that stretcher used in the MICA bit is break away flat, or a Jordan-Frame Stretcher. Phil may be able to confirm that, but I'm sure it's either a Kerry Jordan Stretcher or a Jordan Frame.

Supposing "Santa" was sitting on a former east coast museum collection. How much would "the elves" be looking to put into say the EJ Lytport Model III? The orange and white, "classic" model of Plano, was the 747Medic, which is still being produced.

To add a note on scene safety. Every new ambulance and fire apparatus, under NFPA Standards, will need the safety chevrons on the rear. We just purchased a large rescue vehicle, and it wasn't even an option, it just had to be there. Red and yellow; our signature color scheme is red over white, has been for decades.

I follow one principal. Drive so that you get there alive.