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He's home now, just rung his bell pretty good. I gave him a few days off...(with pay) I'll take a closer look at it with the mechanical types, but the insurance company will likely write it off since it's only worth about 5k. However, I may purchase it back and restore it to former glory out of my pocket, maybe, just maybe if it passes safety inspection it might return to service. Although I drove it the 2 miles back to base and it seemed fine, I suspect it has a bent frame. I am glad my employee is okay too. I wouldn't be making a tongue in cheek obit for my ambulance like this if he'd been badly hurt, or if anyone else had been involved. I will miss my baby tho.

It is with deep sorrow that I am announcing the passing of our beloved ambulance Unit 1410. This ambulance was a 1999 Demers Type II conversion with 517,000kms on it. It was the oldest operational ambulance in our fleet and was used primarily as a mechanical spare and event standby unit. It was also the first ambulance i had ever purchased and I had intended to be buried in it. On Saturday March 2 it was enroute to a standby event when the driver, (lone occupant) encountered a patch of ice and lost control, entered the ditch and rolled. The driver was admitted to hospital overnight for observation of a potential closed head injury. http://www.emtcity.com/gallery/album/126-1410/

That's awesome!!! I'm sure you'll have a great time and I have faith that you'll impress your preceptors.

I'd be interested in discovering how much trauma resulted from the airway insertion.

I know of a decent 4 bedroom house in that price range.

Get registered in Sask and come work for me. Kiwi keeps teasing.

When I precept my students it's with the philosophy that if they fail it's because I failed them. Don't get me wrong though, I don't pass everyone. There is the occasional totally hopeless case that just does not and will never understand.

Didn't you just move to the Southwest last year?

I use 24/7 EMS as well as aclsonline.us

We've got electric blankets in the ambulance and an extension cord. Plug it into the power inverter in the ambulance or into the FD gen set.

Sorry, I just got back from The Devil's Taint, aka Huatulco Mexico.....did it snow while I was away?

Yes, but reading through the thread provides further information, such as his nearest med control is in Sydney or Singapore, or he is the only medic in the area.

That's why netiquette dictates you read the entire thread before commenting. If you had, you would have known that. Perhaps not the specific location, but the gist of him being on the other side of the world.

Band Aid, it's known as progress. If you want to be considered more than an ambulance driver you have to do more than drive an ambulance. The push is on for the concept of EMS to go the way of the dodo. Nowdays, many ambulance services across the world have adopted a Mobile Health Services model. EMS is only one component of this service. If any of my medics were to tell me "I went to school to do emergency calls, not to provide post surgical wound care/wellness checks/diabetes education/vital signs checks/medication compliance checks...."well, you get it. My response would be, there's the door, the choice is yours to use it.

And capitalisation: I helped my uncle jack off a horse. I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.

I wonder if it was debris from 2012 DA14.

Over 500 injured, Some great video. Looks like something from a movie. I think the North Koreans did it. http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2013/02/15/1922121/?sf9602418=1

Hey Mike...do you have that saved somewhere so you can copy and paste?

Why do you carry a BVM? Do you also carry the oxygen it needs to be connected to? What do you do with the rest of the patient while you're using the BVM? It takes one extremely competent person to provide proper PPV with a BVM, or two typically average people, all of which are trained and experienced in the use of such a device. As mentioned, while you're using the BVM on the patient, who is looking for and treating the reason you have to use it in the first place?

Actually, Not Sorry to Dwayne, he's a pain in the ass, Sorry to the OP though. Dwayne has a valid point...I was trying to be funny, but I wasn't. I shoulda tacked "in Sask, Canada." onto the end of my post.

Bringing out the dead. Nicholas Cage.

It's kinda like keeping a guy busy by digging a hole to use the dirt to fill a hole.

And here it is....

Sorry Dwayne.

A good question, my preference is to ventilate as a piggyback to spontaneous resps, increasing the tidal volume, then I will also include additional ventilation between them to ensure the SpO2, etCO2, and most importantly, the patient himself are all within normal ranges. Regardless if they're spontaneously breathing or apniec. Like Dfib said, a crying baby is a good baby.