Chief1C

I think we could make this the longest thread, ever, that has a point. Not like a 100 page, joke..

Now he needs one of those stretchers in the pouch that folds into a four sections. What good will treating them do, if you can't safely evacuate them?

Wow.. 18 Pages

Sudden, heavy rain. We had three storms here in PA on two separate days. Saturday, we got 4" in a half hour; and two inches today. The gravel pad I park on, is gone. It's down to bare dirt and parts of old pavement, all awash and clogged a 6' deep culvert now.

http://levelzeromovie.com/ http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5089515/13508287

I wanna see a combination of Code Blue, Paramedics, Trauma Life in the ER and Cops; all EMS.. No blurring, no censoring.. No I know more than you so let me fix the world medics who narrate everything they do for the camera.. Real fricken action, blood, et al.. That would entertain me. Hollywood, doesn't entertain me.

Using pt info from Crot’s post.. Amb. X dispatched to Porter Twp., Main Rd., for a 14 y/o/f, reported laceration to left hand. Due to circumstances of injury, State Police arrived on; and secured scene prior to EMS arrival. BLS found a C/A/Ox4 patient, sitting in a chair. Calm and cooperative, patient states injury was unintentional. Bleeding controlled prior to arrival, no evidence of large volume blood loss. Skin color pink; warm and dry. No distress, minor pain. Assessed S/M/C of left hand, radial pulses present and equal before and after treatment. BLS irrigated an approx 4cm clean edge laceration of left palm with sterile saline and applied dressing and bandage. No known allergies, medications or past history. Parent on scene requested transport to ABC Hospital; recalled ALS, E123456. Transported in position of comfort, vitals w/n/l. CAO- Conscious Alert Oriented SMC- Sensation Motor (Function) Circulation WNL- Within Normal Limits

I think you're about a hundred years off.. Not broken. I was aiming at pill counting device with a pick for pulling cotton out of bottles.

I'm looking forward to the first ATV accident of 2009.

If the tax payers fund it.. Not all areas are lucky to be tax payer funded. Not that I agree with the massive vehicles. Even their fire apparatus, I never compare one area to another, because I don't know what the needs are for the area they cover. Clearly, they have big trucks. But look at them, and then look at the specs. Huge ass trucks, not really that much water. 1,000; 2,000gal tanks on monstrous trucks. Our tanker is smaller than their largest engine, and it carries more water. My guess is, they turned a heavy rescue into an ambulance. The decorations. That's a waste of money.

We only use pre-designated landing zones with coordinates listed on our box cards. That way, the dispatcher can give them to the service upon calling them. They are in areas that are easy and safe to land. Don't land them in populated areas; usually open fields free of power lines, trees. Baseball fields; not like the city, no night games.. Just open, flat ground. There are several improved LZ's in the state forest lands. So, we can pick one, send someone ahead to pin down an orange tarp. Kinda' like a dustoff, and we just carry our victim (or tx via ATV) in that direction. Don't land in gravel w/ cars or on lookers, or uneven ground. In the winter, we land them in areas chosen for being the safest place to land on the roadway.

Farming isn't that big of an industry in the Appalachian Region any more. A lot more likely to have common calls, the only true difference is time and distance between equipment and the scene. Like in a city, in the country, you can't train for everything. There will always be calls that you have to apply skills learned through education, with ideas you dream up on a whim. Your best tool, is your mind. You need to be able to think fast, lead, and know how to improvise. Also; farm accidents. You need other farmers. Barn fires, esp. in fresh hay season, you can be on scene for a day or two. They have a lot of really nasty shit in there, that can kill you very quickly. We stock heavier on items like rope, climbing gear, heavy duty jacks, rescue baskets, medical kits made specifically for wilderness EMS, the ability to run several rescue tools at once. We have so much on our rescue, that we need to bring a trailer along just to get everything to the scene. Typical rural accident; two cars, or trucks, bunch of kids, unrestrained; dirt road, going fast, betting on a sharp curve that nobody else is coming.. and losing the bet. You see more Rescue mixed in with EMS. Cross training is key, basically, so someone is able to provide initial care, quickly. There are a lot of special pieces of equipment for emergencies off the beaten path; ATV's that can transport like a small ambulance, etc. We have members that own dogs for K-9 SAR; and Search and Rescue itself is broken down into specialties. In fact, we have several people that ONLY do SAR, because they spent a lot of time learning how to do it right. Uninformed, poorly trained rescuers; and poorly planned SAR operations delay rescue and endanger lives. http://www.brmrg.org/

Treat the hypovolemia with some good old fashion blood letting.. It worked for Geo. Washington. Got rid of most of that pesky blood.

You should learn to suture.. That skill has come in handy.

Oooh! Now I'm gonna carry a Dremel tool in my jump kit! Kidding, clearly.

Well, if that's the most significant crash in 18 months, gotta say, they are doing pretty well. Probably best they didn't have a patient, the speed/impact probably would have been a lot worse.

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It's not just the NSC.. It's any I/85 Curriculum. I couldn't find any of them. I found a book written in 1991 about it on Amazon, that was about the extent of it.

No idea where to look for that.. I tried their website, which you'd think it would be on.. But, unless it's hidden under something, I can't find it.

File Name: Cylinder Safety File Submitter: 4c6 File Submitted: 20 May 2009 File Category: Misc Files Vintage Oxygen Cylinder Safety Doohickey Click here to download this file

http://www.EMS.gov Is this it? http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/ems...k1/Overview.htm