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Yup, that's pretty much us. We can ask for enough Versed to knock our their respiration, but then what?

A. You assume I can even get two. I just told you I couldn't even replace the one I had. B. The main O2 compartment is for.... the O2. I have linen cabinets that work just fine.

We have no separate certifications for nurses here, and who we talk to depends on where we transport to. At the trauma center, two nurses staff the ER Communications Center- answering the EMS phone, taking calls for transfers from MDs, and monitoring the statewide hospital diversion website. When we call in, they answer, and we tell them if we're making notification or need Medical Control. For the latter, they usually either transfer us to their partner's phone or out to Ambulance Triage for pre-arrival report ("Are they critical? No? See you when you get here."). If we need Med Control, one of the Comm nurses grabs one. At most of the smaller community hospitals, the charge nurse answers, and transfers to the doctor's desk if we need that.

It would help to know what that means.

No bench seat. Slideable bucket seats with 5-point harnesses. Padding everywhere there's a flat, unused surface. Recessed grab bars. All equipment in cabinets, brackets designed for the equipment held, or heavy duty straps with heavy-duty D-rings. Cargo nets. Heavy duty box construction, not the sissy stuff on the street now that fails catastrophically. Reflective chervrons on the entire rear side and the inside of all outward-swinging doors. More blue and amber lights on the rear than red.

"People want to know how the geese wound up in front of the plane. They were TEXTING!" ~Jay Leno

We are by SOP supposed to staff and respond a second truck (non-duty crew personnel, who should be onscene) to any confirmed structure fire. When the second truck arrives, the first is put back in service after leaving the SPCO with the on-scene truck. (Don't ask.) The "Rehab truck" has a form for each firefighter's name, vitals, etc. As far as I can tell, whether or not the firefighter goes back is up to the EMS crew, and the fire chief has made it clear that he will back us up.

Nope. We used our last pillow as a splint, and the hospital we transported to didn't have one to replace it. Haven't seen an unoccupied one since.

And there's plenty of men named Leslie. Are we going to kick down their doors and "rescue" little boys named Leslie because we think he'll get his ass kicked at school?

I have a hard time believing the photo in ERDoc's article and this one are the same person...

Where does it end? Are we going to yank a male Leslie from his parents because he might get made fun of later? This is classic. Liberals love to scream about keeping the government's hands off their bodies and out of their bedroom,s but as soon as their sensibilities are offended , send in the G-men!

You don't have to qualify for the bariatric truck to close up a coronary artery from eating shit like this. :wink:

I wonder how much those assclowns cost the taxpayers of Arizona by getting their grandma panties in a twist over a handful of waitresses at a gimmick restaurant, before ultimately deciding to do..... nothing. As for the Heart Attack Grill, I've got two words: Job Security. I hope he franchises. :twisted:

You're going to stay outside for 6 minutes? :?

What's the point of asking us to respond to a scenario if we don't get time to answer?

You have to wonder sometimes what exact combination of brain chemicals it takes to make people think this sh!t makes sense.

We transport to 7 hospitals, who use 4-5 different pumps. Even if we bought the pump of the two hospitals we'd be most likely to transport a patient with a drip to, I'm certain it would be cost-prohibitive. They've got top of the line stuff, way out of our budget. I also always use a lock, and I'd go so far as to say 90% of our providers do as well.

Normally sure, but ROSC is ROSC. I gotta give them props when they earned it.

Kind of depends on the hospital we're switching at. There used to be one that would replace expired meds, then they got a new pharmacist and that stopped. Some will take meds up to the last day of the expiration month, others won't take it past the first day. I'm in charge of meds at my full-time job. I usually stay two months ahead on everything, just to be safe. Anything that's expiring in the next 60 days on the truck or in stock gets collected, and then it's off to the hospital.

Until last year dial-a-flows were state-required equipment. Then the state decided they were innacurate, banned them, and required all med drips be on a pump. But since all drip meds are optional, whoever had them just pulled them instead of spending the money on pumps. The private services still have them on their paramedic units for cath lab runs though (nitro, heprin, etc). Eventually the officers on my 911 department convinced the chief that with a 15-20 minute transport time, and no protocol-sanctioned treatment for stable VT without a pump, it's probably something we want to have. So we're getting pumps for each truck.

My detector is down for maintenance- I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. :?

I had to stop somebody from shoving 240mg of Lasix into a peripheral edema patient once. Why? Because that's what the CHF protocol said to do. :roll:

Thanks. There's one hospital I transport to only occasionally that I tried to get morphine from for the first time this past summer. Their pharmacy not only wanted the carpuject I used, they wanted a photo ID. :shock:

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