CBEMT

I had my camera in my pocket the whole first day. After Doc told us we couldn't use them in the cadaver area, I just plum forgot about it. :oops:

I'm not sure. I work side by side with this exact age bracket for a living (they also make up most of my patient population), and for every one that I'd trust with a drug (be it morphine or alcohol), there's 20 I wouldn't.

Happened to a guy I know in the city, he thought his partner put it back in the truck, his partner thought he did. They didn't discover the problem until they arrived onscene at a mutual aid run for an MVA. Not only did they not have a stretcher, they were out of town without a stretcher. :oops: Me personally, I've left a clipboard and first-in bag onscene (nursing home, easy to get back), and 12-lead cables at an ER (never to be seen again). :oops:

Nope. It was pulled off my state formulary years ago because patients were dying after EMS used it like Narcan, which is NOT what its intended or recommended use is.

I've worked with a few (state-specific level) ALS providers in the 19-20 range. It always amazes me that they can give morphine but can't buy their own beer.

Reason #564 my kids will never set foot in a public school.

That's weird, because I know a guy who used to work there, and as far as I knew Durham Fire had Basics but not Durham County EMS.

In our metro area, they used to be arrested for public intox, or given a ride home if they weren't belligerant. Then one day the po-po dropped one guy off at his house that they'd had a hundred times before, except this time he was hypoglycemic and died on his porch. So now they they all go to the ER, many every day, and some more than once a day.

How about abdominal? 60's y/0 female, dx of AAA within the last year, no need for sx intervention at last ultrasound. Hx of renal failure. Chief complaint is LUQ/flank pain radiating to the back. Recently taken off a BP med due to it's effects on the one kidney she still has. BP right arm- 180's, consistently. BP left arm- 120's, consistently.

Egregiously Mislabeled Taxidriver

I tend not to hug any of my patients, least of all those who are wearing evidence. I think a great many male providers (and cops, and firefighters, etc) are also highly concerned about being accused of inappropriate conduct, especially when dealing with someone who is now (at least in their minds) extremely sensitive about men in general and touching in particular. A what? :?:

Let me guess. If YOU'D be onscene, you would have caught the obvious wrist pain MI with a 12-lead, because you do that for all possible orthopedic injuries. :roll:

FT job- event details do not count as runs. PT- fire standbys count, same run number as the fire trucks. If we go mutual aid for station coverage (rare for the EMS side, but it happens) those count too.

I would've thought somebody in Kalifornia would've come up with this first. http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article941559.ece

And that's where professionalism comes in. :? Those guys fail.

I've fallen in love with a patient's boobs, that's about it. :twisted: (NO, I'm not one of those molester EMTs. )

When I have a partner, I don't care what the call is I'm typically cool and collected. It's when I start off on the call alone that sometimes I can get a little warm under the collar.

Does giving enough Versed to knock out their gag count? We can do that if we get an order, but statewide it almost never happens. I do happen know someone who did it this year for a severe CHFer that he was losing the airway on.

Often the community ERs won't even have them- early in my career two of my coworkers made a transfer from a (slightly) outlying ER into the trauma center with a patient whose pacemaker was misfiring as often as every two minutes. The magnet was awaiting their arrival- a few seconds later, no more shocks.

The closest I've gotten to this was a known Hospice patient with a DNR signed by everyone except the doctor. Down time approximately 10 minutes, no signs of death except for asystole. Hell he was still getting O2 via concentrator. Family begged me to let him go (not sure why they called.....). Called in, explained the situation, doc ok'd not working it. In this case, without even an "almost" DNR to work with, I'm required to work it..... ....and transport.

Pretty easy to be flip about it when you have that option. Some of us don't. For a month in the winter and all summer long, it's just me and a partner in a one-unit agency. Guess what? I get a code, I'm calling for Fire. I have zero inclination to carry the patient, monitor, medical bag, drug box, and suction down stairs and bag at the same time, then transport, with only one other person. We won't even get into the 911 gig where I sometimes respond alone. In short, "you don't need anybody else because you shouldn't be driving" is filed under the "easy for you to say" category.

http://www.gazette.net/stories/12152008/pr...856_32485.shtml

http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/...-go-driver.html

Not because it's a good idea. Some twit at DOH gave them a service license, so why not do it? http://www.timesargus.com/article/20081213...332/1002/NEWS01

You're right. Forcing the manufacturers to pay 12,000 people $30 an hour or more to play cards for years on end, plus full family benefits (among other absurdities) had NOTHING to do with it. :roll: