CBEMT

Apparently no English classes in the back of that ambulance inside the building.

Dopes. Sounds like something the college paper here would do.

*shrug* From the sounds of it, he's got a script for everything he needs a script for. Says he has it available for use by the doctors in his neighborhood if the brown stuff hits the air-mover. It's his money and it all sounds legal. Some people drop a couple of grand on rims for their car, some people spend more than that on sports or scifi memorabilia. If he wants to drop it into a medical kit for somebody else to use, so be it. Wish I had that kind if discretionary income.

Mall security guards often carry the foaming kind for exactly this reason. Far less, if any, aerosol dispersal. If they were to use it indoors, much of the mall would need to be evacuated, leading to lost sales and theft. So it's in their best interests to have it. Shouldn't be hard to find.

Not good enough. Good enough. I wouldn't like doing it, but life sucks.

O2, ASA (non-pts own), oral glucose, glucagon, Epi (pen, ampule draw, or neb depending on the situation), APAP, NTG (pts own w/ MC), Albuterol (by neb, non-pts own), charcoal, ipecac (supposedly on it's way out), Mark I kits, and calcium gluconate gel.

Fair enough. If it helps, I only threw in the stones like because I figured you were hiding behind door #2.

Whatever nothing. Your first post is spent outlining a situation in such a way that clearly tells us you aren't in EMS, asking questions about what EMS personnel would do in a given situation. Since most actual authors have the stones to actually say so in order to get quality, accurate information that would make their novels more life-like and fact-based, the only scenario I'm left with is that you're fishing for information in regards to a potential or current legal action in which the actions of an EMS crew are in question for whatever reason. I guarantee that I won't be the only member of this site to think the same thing after they read your post.

No, we're not writing your book for you/giving you ammo for your malpractice suit. Go fish. (Somewhere else.)

I'm sure s/he's referring to the drugs that IN HIS/HER STATE he may administer. Since s/he mentioned there are 8 of them, I'd think it's safe to say s/he's not in Michigan, therefore telling him/her all you can administer is oxygen and oral glucose is kind of pointless wouldn't you say? I could list off all 11 medications (plus one assist med) that my state's EMT-Bs can administer, but how would that help him/her learn his 8? Says who? S/He hasn't told us what the authorized meds are yet. Maybe s/he's not permitted to assist with an epi pen.

You aren't kidding. The last time, I killed a bus full of special needs kids that had gotten into a minor MVA. Figured it was easier than writing 15 run reports, and son of a bitch it was! I paid the fine with loose change and three stale french fries I found under the passenger seat of my car.

Clearly. The result could be a schism in the space-time continuum that would make Jean-Luc Picard shit his pants.

Some of them may have enough presence of mind to realize that their life insurance won't pay if they weren't wearing their seatbelt. Without it, not only can the insurance company argue that the deceased did not do everything possible to prevent his own death, but suicide would be high on their list of potential crash causes right from the start.

Sounds like a common-sense technique. Another one I use, regardless of where the rollar clamp is located, is to close the roller clamp, and pinch the drip chamber during insertion into the IV bag. Letting go, the fluid will invariably fill the drip chamber exactly to the fill line, and the tubing will be nearly devoid of bubbles.

Well, I hate to ruin your sense of individuality, but that kind of arrangement is exactly what ICS is about. Granted under ICS one of the firefighters could have command, but the idea of passing command is ICS to a T.

Does nobody else have IV fluid warmers in the trucks?

They might be alive, but I wouldn't call them sentient. If they're alive, they're alive in the same sense as moss, say.

8 hour shift, one or two patients.... no wonder the pay sucks.

I do apologize for the way the thread has gone. I guess it's the Irish in me- I can't just sit here and let somebody who's never met me, never met the patient, and wasn't on the scene sit behind a far-away keyboard and insinuate that I'm some dope who's a poster child for bad EMS. HELL no. Ask Dust what my dedication to EMS education and self-improvement is. He picked me up from the airport after I flew halfway across the country to get continuing ed that my license doesn't even require. At my full-time job I "kidnap" people all the time, but they're drunk.

And you're so sure she knew more than me because...........? I mean, if you were there, tell me!

Unfortunately, as busy as our hospitals are this is pretty much an alien concept. Even when our trauma center ER has no beds available, there are still hospital stretchers to put them on, and they can stack then 10 deep in Ambulance Triage if necessary. These would be patients not considered critical or even urgent, though sometimes even an "urgent 2" will have to sit there for awhile. (It does get aggravating when some loudmouth drunk ends up next to grandma from the nursing home.) Longest offload time I can remember is 20 minutes waiting for a bariatric bed to be brought up from storage.

Well, that explains a lot.

With benefits? In Connecticut? Eh........ :?