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Would you like the norms for the general population or for our specific occupation? http://www.thfc.ca/cms/en/KeyStatistics/KeyStatistics.aspx?menuid=87

For those that care, the relevant paragraph in Mike's 25 page document is about half way down page 8. However, that is a simple statement of criteria and doesn't reflect actual function. Has anyone else had their organisation actually go out and conduct sound level detection in their ambulances? Giving information regarding what the sound levels should be doesn't provide fact for what they actually are. There is simply not enough information in the article to determine whether or not this claim is frivoulous, was hearing protection provided and not used? Were reasonable steps taken to mitigate hearing damage? This isn't a cup of coffee at MacDonald's. Hearing loss can be progressive and subtle over a long period of time. Having done the tests myself, I can see merit to their claim. Not from the sirens specificlly, but just the ambient road noise.

With the exception of infants U/S can't.

Is that so? Do you have the data to back this claim?

You still are.

Yeah, me too, and it was 35 years ago.

For you perhaps, for others, as Markus said "Some say".

With EMS week coming up I thought I would bring awareness to the dangers of the profession. I've reviewed a few studies that show how dangerous it is to be in EMS. Problem is, they're ll over the place. In this one it's 12.7/100,000 from 1992 to 1997 http://www.emsedsem.org/Prior%20Articles/EMS_Fatalities%20from%20JEMS.pdf This one from 2003 - 2007 indicates 7.0/100,000 http://www.jems.com/article/health-and-safety/studies-show-dangers-working-ems Evidently, EMS has gotten safer, but here's my issue. How is the data categorised? For example, depending on who one talks to, the 80+paramedics killed in the WTC attacks were grouped in as firefighters, even though they were there in a medical capacity. It got me wondering, about tiered responses and such. Canada doesn't have a whole lot of combined EMS/Fire services in comparison to the States. When a medic is killed, he usually doesn't get the firefighter label pinned on him. Considering that tiered response fire depts. have, in most cases, EMT trained staff, it got me thinking about fatalities while responding to medical calls. If a firefighter is killed or injured during a medical response, should that statistic fall under firefighting or EMS? My thoughts are that the NHTSA or what ever applicable agency is responsible for these studies needs to create clear definitions of who should be included or excluded from the data. My feeling is that any firefighter with EMS training conducting a response for medical assistance should be classified as an EMS provider rather than a firefighter for the purpose of accurate data collection. Thoughts?

Ouch

How many attacks have specifically targeted first responders though? I've heard of a few IED cases in the middle east that might qualify, however, I still contend that even the first responder fatalities during WTC attacks were an unexpected collateral that terrorists realised after the fact that they could capitalise on.

Awwww, pregnant chicks are hot!!! All those hormones running rampant through their bodies, messing with pheromones, huge ankles, stretch marks slowly progressing across the belly and down the thighs. And when they start to waddle....better than a tight wiggle.

You did it wrong.

I'd run toward the first blast, for the simple reason that for maximum damage, a second device is unlikely to be placed in close proximity to the first.

Thanks!!

Not yet Mobes. I hear ya just got it a few months ago.

Thanks bud, I'm working on a protocol proposal for our area to have this added to our scope.

One of my medic students posted this image on facebook, Although we do have a fitness component to our paramedic training, these two students were injured during a resounding game of..... ...Duck, Duck, Goose.

In Saskatchewan, if I can do it in the ambulance, I can do it in my POV on the side of the road. Legally, I could carry and use anything and everything that my ambulance contains. Now, reference Kiwi's post. My kit contains a few ABDs, 4x4s, 2x2s, pressure dressings, cravats, saline for irrigation, handoms, various rolls of sticky stuff, scissors, window punch, OPAs, a pocket mask, and a few bandaids.

Der, huh?

Congratulations...next goal, page 100.

lol, here I was trying to boost someone onto page 69. Oh well.

Here ya go

No doubt people were saying the same thing 30 years ago about AEDs, 20 years ago about SPO2, and 10 years ago about etCO2. Question is, why should those countries that have their shit together wait on the American prehospital paradigm to finally shift before we can advance? However, as you've mentioned, the American system is what is substandard and what needs to change. Maybe, one day those in power will recognise the problem and deal with it. Oddly enough, these shiny new toys being used to advance health care beyond U.S. borders originated in that very country. Edit: I can see where you are coming from though....Already has only one "L".

67 heh heh

http://www.scas.nhs.uk/content/homepage-feature/ambulance-in-collision-with-tree-on-a337-brockenhu.ashx http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-forest-ambulance-crash-driver-1854711