Just Plain Ruff

If you are not having any more fun Fire then do all of us a favor and go back to your fire station. Might be best for all concerned.

that's also no ordinary bikini

EMT2359 is that 20 minutes away from the station where the ambulance/fire truck is? or is it 20 minutes away from the scene and you drive in your car? If it is 20 minutes away from the station where the ambulance is housed,can you really say that your volunteers are serving the community in having such a long drive just to get to the station? If it is to the scene then that is an average county response and I agree with lights on your vehicle but not agree to overdo it. With response times to the station of 20 minutes or so wouldn't it be more feasible to have someone closer to the station available? Maybe I mis=read your post a little. Can you elaborate for me?

it will have no basis on decision making as you ahve to be a British citizen to properly sign the petition.

Again, firefighter523 comes out to bless us all on his wisdom. ACLS is not meant to save someone from a code, it is meant to prevent it from happening if that is possible. Yes we are all students yet I have never required more than one attempt to pass ACLS even back in the early 80's when ACLS or Pals or whatever other classes have been dumbed down. I would need the fingers and toes of about several friends in order to count the number of people that it took more than 2 tries to pass ACLS.

Edogs those are the same people who trust the snarling dog with white foam around his mouth to be a "good doggie" Bottom line - this is the rule I live by - if what I post is something I'd be embarassed to have my little olde grandmother whose in a nursing home and has never been out of the city she was born in read, then I'm not gonna post it out there.

There was an article in the USA Today or some other member of the drive by media and they said that(forgive me if I got the number here wrong) fully 40% of the handguns used in criminal act were purchased by someone who was legally able to purchase that gun. These guns were purchased lawfully and then either given to a criminal or were stolen. That story in the USA Today effectively blew the we need more gun control argument out the window. If guns are bought by legally able citizens and then given to the criminal and if the numbers are to be believed then we are in trouble. Look at Washington DC, there is a law that says that those living in DC cannot own guns.(I think that's the gist of the law). But DC has one of the highest gun related homicide rates in the country. So much for gun control. Gun control arguments don't hold much water anymore. If a criminal wants a gun he will get one. It's pretty easy.

I told you all this was gonna be a bad one.

I think that he was trying to say via a 10 code that the fire truck was busy but the only 10-6 I've ever been exposed to was that someone was busy.

I agree Chbare, what I'd like to see now is the media leave the area and let the people there deal with the tragedy instead of being reminded of it day after day after day after day. the story has been reported, let the students and community heal and get back to normal.

This just sickens me. Just minutes after the shooting broke we had people spouting off gun control and lock up all the guns. Quick on the heals of this the drive by media and the liberals in america claimed that if we had gun control that this would never have happened. Well people, the university was a gun free zone and that in my opinion is Gun Control. So before all these liberals, conservatives and the drive by media start to spout off and try to take our liberties away, remember that Gun control here was pretty high. NO guns allowed on campus YET two guns got on campus and took out 32 people - I don't count the piece of crap evil person who killed himself and took the cowards way out. The guy was nuts, as we have seen in the past couple days with all that is coming into play about this psychopath. The mental health profession, the university system that refuses to allow the students to protect themselves are to blame.

sure you can press charges all you want but getting a prosecutor to charge someone for requesting medical care no matter how much BS we think it is is going to be quite difficult.

I'm still trying to figure out what Dometic violence is.

Good article from San Antonio - not sure how accurate the medics response to this report were though. sounded kind of biased http://www.emsresponder.com/article/articl...n=1&id=5200

Can't imagine being on a toilet when it catches on fire. Read all about it here::-----http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/technology/12296226/detail.html

Has anyone ever damaged a patients property while in the course of a call? I know many of you have. The question I have is what did you do to rectify or fix the situation? I had a call where myself and the police sergeant broke a door down. When the door swung open after the 4th hard kick the window in the door made contact with a coat rack and shattered. We took care of the patient and then returned later that day and began repairs of the window and door. Has anyone ever had a situation where they felt a need to repair the damage done?

Actually the most underutilised piece of equipment is your common sense. many of the people I work with and see on a day to day basis have had their common sense go the way of the DoDo bird.

It's amazin how fast that a topic can hit the crapper. Does anyone have anything constructive to add to the dometic violence debate??? I sure dun't.

this is one more wake up call to all of us with these accounts. What you do post on the internet can come back and bite youin the proverbial rear end.

this is a primary example of someone posting a scenario and then vanishing while the posts are coming in Do us a favor, if you post a scenario please follow thru and not vanish. It makes the scenario much more interesting.

I was a regional faculty for AHS, and I felt the same way. Watered down. We gave students more than 2 chances to pass. During the megacode I always told the strongest student in the group who always seemed to be the lead sheep while the other three or four students followed like lost sheep that he had to go to the other room to get a piece of equipment and I would tell him when he found it. He may have never found the piece of equipment. I can't tell you how many times I had a crying student, male and female both, give me a sob story that they were gonna get fired if they didn't pass. Some times I didn't pass them and told them to come back after they had read the material which was glaringly evident that they had not read prior to class. Open book tests - pre and post tests ACLS Jeopardy Teams of 4 They could use the algorythms to run the code. I always liked to give them a rhythm that made them think. I felt badly that we passed so many students who obviously didn't have a clue. There were some that I wouldn't want to work on my dog let alone a relative. If they didn't know the material and couldn't even give me basic epi and atropine doses without haviing to look at the book or cheat sheets those people did not pass. It was my reputation and my faculty credentials that were on the line if I passed someone who didn't know the material. If they could prove to me that they could learn the material I'd work with them but I do know of one instructor who was sued by a patients family because he passed someone who should not have been passed. I do not know the outcome of that suit though.

I believe the total number of wounded and Dead number around 50 but that's a number I heard at the early hours after the shooter was confirmed dead. The ultimate act of cowardice - kill a bunch of people and then kill yourself. It's good to know that it's gonna be pretty hot where he ends up.

Does anyone even try anymore?? Not trying to be critical -- let me restate what you are asking How many males do you come across in your line of work that are victims of domestic violence. Do not say their names but are there any stories that you can think of on why they are not getting reported. Second question, Why do the male victims go to jail after treatment? I have no idea why the males go to jail after treatment - I didn't know that they did after treatment unless they were guilty of some type of crime. I'm not about to get into stories of patients I've transported or taken care of.

I believe the 417 area code includes the I-44 corridor that is one of the main routes of transport for meth and other assorted feel goodies.

Von Wildebrands disease is actually von willebrands disease. Here is the link http://www.utoronto.ca/kids/vWD.htm