Just Plain Ruff

blood sugar 12 lead IV monitor pulse ox what meds are lying around? any strange pills or chemicals the husband notices

But don't fix her, I like her when she's not talking.

Robert, your fixation on english fake calls is bordering on schizophrenia - give it a rest why don't ya! I rarely use lights and sirens to any call but then again I work nights and our traffic at night is pretty much non-existent so there's not a real need to use them. But like someone says - it's not our emergency and if the call fits the criteria of Emergency then run hot. if not then don't. As a emergency driver it is your absolute responsibility to be safe on all calls BS or not.

Doc, we run 2 crews on with a average call volume of 4-8 calls on day shift and 1-5 calls on night shift.

I will offer myself up too. PM Me or just email me which can be found at ruffems@gmail.com

Ant, this was exactly what I was wanting. If anyone can provide more schedules like that would be appreciated.

Why does your instructor not know the answer to the question? He should know the answer to these types of questions if he is going to ask you these types of questions.

I also did not go into my interview and say I'd do anything for the job. I think that the OP didn't do that either. If working in a remote site makes the OP uncomfortable there is nothing wrong with going to his bosses and saying that he in uncomfortable working with a female partner in the remote area. You have that right to ask that. Unfortunately the bosses are going to come back and say that "this is the way the shifts fall" or "sorry, it's part of the job" It sounds like the OP is doing the right thing by sleeping in a separate room. There honestly should be separate sleeping quarters for women and men. The image of impropriety is always there and why continue to feed that image??? I have been in your shoes before, my wife and I enjoy good trust but when you are away from home for many hours and you are working with a partner of the opposite sex the other party simply cannot help but be concerned, even if there is nothing to be concerned about. Continue to keep it completely platonic, sleep in separate rooms and keep your vows. If you are worried about your partner then you need to address that with your partner.

How many incidents do you have a month? There are a couple of places on Google that I found. What about a package deal with a paging service that would send mass pages.

I think he was so kerflunked with dismay that he only hit the highlights.

what was the rationale of the instructor or evaluator putting all your crew in arrest? The only reason I can think of is that you were still in the bathroom and the floor was wet. Clearing everyone should have consisted of making sure no-one was touching the patient but since you were in the bathroom and the floor was probably wet all of you got zapped. If you were sitting too close to the patient how close were you? I've been 3-5 inches from the patient before and we shocked them and I never felt a shock so my thoughts were that the evaluator was either taking into account the water in the bathroom or he was an asshole. Was that the rationale the evaluator gave you? Or you could have gotten a sadistic evaluator.

2 crews on duty - one awake for entire 12 hour 7a-7p and the other crew is either asleep or 2nd out. They are going to either have to wake up or respond if a 2nd call comes in. Paid the entire 24 call volume requires 2 crews inhouse but that is just because that is what they want. our staff numbers include 7a-7p crews would be 6 medics and 4 emts (2 of those medics are probably not gonna do much 24's) so consider 4 24 hour medics 7p-7a crew right now consists of 3 medics and 2 emts (definately short on 7p-7a) The 7a - 7p crews would be awake for their shifts and the 7p-7a would need to be awake for their shift. Minimal sleeping of on-duty crews would be allowed. I'm trying to get this set up to demonstrate a schedule for a meeting on thursday.

Does anyone have a good scheduling program or way they schedule 2 crews for 24 hours. Possible model for us will be 1 day on 72 hours off. 1 Crew as primary amb crew and 2nd as secondary There will be 1 crew awake from 7a-7p and one crew asleep for those hours and then one crew awake from 7p to 7a and the other crew asleep those same hours. This will ensure 24 hour coverage. Anyone have a existing schedule like this.

I decided to give up my ocean front property in Colorado and begin posting again.

You mean Mt. Everest isn't in colorado, according to my neighbor's kid who is a senior in high school says it is

There is a reason why the animals love me. Ill be posting a picture of my home that I purchased. It's partially in Weld county and Hilo County. I actually just purchased this home. It's a starter home at that, but hey, I can't afford much more than this. http://cgi.ebay.com/Beautiful-Colorado-Hom...%3A1%7C294%3A50

yes, colonoscopy's for everyone. Beats the hell out of the alternative.

It is with great sadness and trepidation that I am leaving EMS and EMTcity for greener pastures of Animal Husbandry. I have long been an admirer of farming and it's environs and have purchased 12000 acres of pristine farmland in the middle of Colorado with a recent inheritance that I have come into. I have a great view of Mount Ranier and Mt. Everest yet I still think something is missing. I will be parcelling off parts of my land for other EMT citiers who feel that EMS is not their calling. Spenac, contact me for your particular parcel. I will no longer post on this board nor any others. I wish everyone the best. Michael "Ruffems"

I'm not advocating the routine use of RSI, nor am I saying that it's an option for us. But what I am asking for is protocols that may or may not have this in place. The last thing I want to happen to anyone is to become ventillator dependent but what I am trying to do is to strike some balance into what kind of restraints are out there for our service to utilize and keep both the patient and the medics safe.

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I am going to have to disagree somewhat. Yes the course has been dumbed down but.. I also put some fault at the training entities (the AHA training sites) that did not put up a fight to get the standards changed. The site I was affiliated as a Regional faculty many moons ago was flabbergasted that we were told that no-one failed. To remediate a failing student over and over again until they "got it". The training sites should have made more noise to get this god-awful standard reversed. I'm not sure of the other sites but our site was run by an old school doc who said that "yes you can fail ACLS" and he wasn't going to change his stance. Up until about 6 months before I ended my relationship as a RF for AHA we did indeed fail people. Our thought process at the time and it was squashed by the AHA is that these are medically trained people who NEED to know this stuff and know it well. If they still didn't get it they went to another class for free. We resisted being assimilated by the BORG (AHA) and failed people. On a side note, does anyone like the computer version of the ACLS Class?

and you would have missed your loved one dying anyway, sort of a lose lose situation huh?

Absolutely Terri, I'm not advocating that we retaliate against the medic who slammed the narcan because he didn't like us but I am saying that that medic needs some remediation and if it requires a come to christ meeting in the ambulance bay to discuss the finer points of giving a medication then so be it. I know of patients who sued the hospital and the ER who did not get the treatment that they medically deserved because they sued the physician for just that treatment in the past. I would never deny a patient a medication if warranted nor would any of the docs in our ER but I know that it happens and it happens all the time.