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Ha thats actually kinda funny, one of the LEO's here driving out to a rural call tore right through fresh asphalt, when the ambulance went around the guy fixing the exit mentioned what a jack ass the cop was

We were aproached one night by a very intoxicated individual at our base while deep cleaning a unit (we are not a fire service, our units are white) Intoxicated Gentleman "What do you guys do?" Medic: "Were Fire Fighters!"

My protocols and training agree with CCMedoc, attempt to rotate inline with gentle traction, stop if you feel any resistance. If she was that uncx, then why was an RSI required? They should have at least checked the gag reflex before loading her up on drugs. And yeah anything nasal is bad news..... now thats direct oxygenation.

We do unit checks every morning (and now night after it took a little too long to find a stolen blue bag/drug kit) to make sure everything is there. Our units are deep cleaned weekly at which time all the expiry dates are checked from IV fluid to preloads. Generally we remove anything that expires at the end of the month and replace it

I love how the sniper just had to be Canadian. I mean geez I know those people from Ontario are crazy but to go on a rampage in San Fransisco. Yes Rabbit looks like his spirit has been broken a little (well he has stopped doing as stupid things as he used to) But I like how they threw in him shaking up Tylers energy drink, broken but still Rabbit. The medicine is ok, still wondering why she pulled the leads off the STEMI's chest after she did her first 12-lead though, do we not monitor people having a heart attack anymore? And why all the negativity towards Nancy? And has anyone ever seen a surgical incision like that? I thought she was going to say she woke up in her bathtub surrounded by ice

I have a vest that I was required to purchase for school, that I now keep in my locker at work. There is a certain reserve here that I wear it too all the time, but its also the reserve that has large amounts of RCMP on it every 4 months or so

He may have walked into the ER, but I wonder if he is going to have any long term personality changes? The knife looks like he almost got a lobotomy.

I found a toque that integrated a gel like substance that stiffens on impact, supposed to be as good as a helmet. That being said I wouldn't voluntarily wear a helmet, except for maybe one rig, it has a poorly placed grab bar that if it misses my forehead, always connects with the back of my head

Ok I own a convertable tablet laptop, it was fantastic for writing my notes on it school, as it was really fast for me to flip back to older notes and so on. As for the iPad. It has iWork, so the productivity software is there but the input is useless. I hate to say it but it needs a pen. Keep touch screen, keep multi touch, but when it recognizes there is a pen there turn that crap off and listen only to the pen so you can write. Just much easier way of inputing stuff that a touch screen keyboard like the iPhone.

Email sent to PAC wondering how they plan to deal with being left out, and how the plan on staying relevant now that the regulators will apparently be in charge

I find it funny that SCoP is listed in there, and yet they want to pull out of PAC because they dont believe that as a regulating body they have any purpose there shaping new NOCP's. Now look they want to do what exactly?

Too bad they forgot how to count since then.... I seem to remember on my practicum a preceptor threatening to make me push the unit to the next call for being a Stamps fan (i'm from there, or as it is to be known in this thread YYC) Also from my practicum, I seem to remember Saskatoon's service carrying a wipe that was supposed to take away the burn, i've also heard that yogurt works too (who knew?) Never had to deal with tazer barbs though, isnt there a tool for pushing in the barbs to make removal much easier?

Its an interesting idea, you'd be able to show the ER docs how bad their lungs were before a neb for example. And the recordings are useful for teaching. I learned ECG's off of real ECG's, why not learn lung sounds from real lung sounds. They may also be able to do some signal processing to remove road noise or even sirens from the background

I sign up to volunteer for GlobalMedic the day I graduate from ACP school. Please donate. They do an amazing job all over the world

We just had the king LT added to our scope for EMT's. Its a wonderful step up from the OPA and BVM. Easy to insert and if it works as advertised it will be great, especially due to the fact that there are times when we have no ALS backup. Now the LT has no suction port, so i dont know what difference that makes on the protection of the airway

I use an Timex Ironman triathalon watch. It has a plastic band that sterilizes easy, has an analog face with a full digital background with 24hr time/date (which can be turned off and can look pretty snazzy) Its served me well so far

I'll add a little bit to this discussion (should be change the name of this topic?) There is no way a brand new EMT should be thrown to emerg calls regardless of where they work (hopefully the senior partner has been there longer than a month)Nor do I believe they should work in a place where black and white TV is the shiz nit. The balance out of a rural service with a small hospital may just be perfect. Transport times range from 2 minutes to 45-1hr, good transfers into a major care center (you learn alot just by opening that big brown envelope and reading) As an EMT I probably would never have dealt with some of the head trauma's I have without ALS, or DKA's and so on. It is also good for the new EMT to learn that sometimes a Paramedic (in school you are kinda taught to worship the ACP) needs OUR backup, yes its usually for a lift or a third hand but it also helps with the whole TRUST issue I have seen mentioned here Now yes I was excited, I got 6 emerg calls my last tour and I realize that a city service will do 6 calls a day. But its nice to get your BLS treatment dusted off and used as much as possible whether or not its in a city, a town or a hamlet

For the record, even though I live in Saskatchewan, i giggled a little bit when the riders blew the grey cup, just because of all the harassment i received after the stamps were dropped (born and raised in Calgary) If the new contract states that you are not required to work overtime then why do it? If the government really wanted you to work all that over time wouldn't they have been smart enough to put that into the contract as well? Just saying..... The Olympics will be an interesting time, we very well may see the government and Vanoc realizing that after one day of the games they truly screwed the pooch on medical staffing come begging to the very people they screwed over. My girlfriend keeps saying that she wants to move to BC so I can have the mountains (I love to climb) and she gets the ocean, but more and more that is scaring the crap out of me. I am going back to school next year for the specific reason that it makes it alot easier to work in different provinces if i'm an ACP vs a PCP (planned to do it anyway) but things are definitely looking pretty good where I am right now. All I can say is GOOD LUCK!

Great Post, thank you. Rest in Peace

You mean we dont get to have sex in the back? Darn and thats why I got into this profession

No we definitely dont have heart saver tones, just the standard 4 or 5 beeps, then dispatch telling us what to do. MD doesn't even use tones in their rigs. As for the green light, if it keeps RCMP off my back then i'm all for it, sometimes getting to base in the required 5 minutes is kinda hard with the 9 friggen red lights between me and base (nothing compared to the speeds my partner achieves on the way in)

We were contacted by the Saskatoon Health Region to help with inoculations, we were told we would be sent the 4 hours of pre-reading for the course and we would spend all day their learning and so forth. So at 22:30 the night before the class we were informed that we wouldn't be doing the course, SHR didn't want us any more. So people of Saskatoon and area just remember why the lines are so long.

You never know, aparently we may be getting green lights for our POV when on call in Saskatchewan What about this "soft wake" system? I'd like to know a little more about that. One i'm running out of clean sheets due to the occasional crap myself moment when tones go off (I have to sleep with my radio on high)

LUCAS Reglardless of whether or not its better than manual CPR, being able to move a patient through narrow hallways and back gates into the unit without an interruption in CPR, that cant be a bad thing

Buy a LUCAS instead, you get better CPR, and it keeps giving good CPR. Makes your life and your moves a little easier too. An ER in Saskatoon did a ultrasound of a patients ankle (the name of the vein escapes me) and apparently there was very good blood flow with the device