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I'm just way too distracted at the little baby pointing at his lunch bags to really think at all.

EMS Week - 'Cause babes dig the uniform.

I'm surprised that he didn't mention: "That bed you're gonna be laying on? Yeah, somebody died there." or "not very long before you were on it was a puddle of quivering goo that was pile driven by a speeding semi."

I've been having similar depression/frustration issues lately...checking out the fukitol website helped immensely.

Shit is funny? I guess you have to be a Kiwi to appreciate it.

Her Skype address is on her profile. Why doesn't someone just Skype with her?

Well, I can't,

EMS Week - Waddyamean I can't carry a gun?

EMS Week - We're paramedics because we didn't qualify for university.

Welcome, join in some discussions or feel free to start one of your own.

EMS Week - It's a boring job. No Really!!

EMS Week - You call, we haul.

EMS Week - It's all about the Show and Music, Baby!!!!

Only if the ALS provider signs the document. I frequently intercept a BLS service and I refuse to sign their call reports because I am not the care provider of record and by signing their call report I am affirming that I agree with the treatment provided. Problem is, I never witnessed it. I make my own call report documenting the call from the point that I intercepted, including my assessment findings at that time...not the assessment findings of the BLS crew.

Any idea why she wouldn't be a transplant candidate?

EMS Week - Help is a Heartbeat away.

EMS Week - Call 911, make a paramedic come.

You Do!!?? COOL!!!!! EMS Week - Where people meet by accident.

Paramedic, it's not what I do, it's what I am.

Wow, that's uncanny. You just described my father....I wish he'd hurry up and get it over with to be brutally honest. That is one code i won't waste time working on when it happens.

My IV pump gives me ml/hr. gtts/min is essentially useless to me.

Why would that disqualify them? It's quite common.

There is a special circumstance that no one else has mentioned in this. Organ donors. http://ejcts.oxfordj.../5/929.abstract http://www.parl.gc.c...s/prb0824-e.htm Given this information, would you consider resuscitation as a means to ensure that the organs can remain viable until they can be harvested; knowing full well that the potential for an actual long term ROSC could result in a patient who would require institutional care 24/7 for years to come? Edit: Just to note, I have, in fact, done CPR for three or more hours to transport an organ donor for harvesting.

Did you just quote what your protocol or standing order says? Consider the crap smacked outta you. Yes, provided that CPR has been in progress and the collapse was witnessed or near witnessed..ie, grandpa's been on the crapper for quite a while, I'd better check on him, not, she went to lay down a couple of hours ago. I have one Asystole patient alive today with a good quality of life, and several others who survived several days. I only count that one though. The only reason I mention the others is because it gives family members closure when they can travel back home and be with their loved one when the plug is pulled. No, fortunately most of these people are realistic enough to sign a DNR. Nope, and policy for the level 4 long term care facility is that everyone is encouraged to sign a DNR. Yes, it's in my protocols..Whoops. I'll go beyond the 30 minute mark if I'm feeling optimistic, and usually I do just to make my doctor earn his paycheque. Nope, family has no input regarding my decision to work a code or not, but they are considered.

The biggest concern is uniformity. When you have 5 different agencies responding to an MCI, are they all going to have the same hand signals? Who are the hand signals to be directed at? How are you going to get the attention of the person on the receiving end of your signal if he/she is not looking at you?