Dustdevil

I have faith in you. I think you will once you're a medic and realise how much you didn't know as an EMT. I did. :wink:

And EMTs shouldn't be working on ambulances either. End of story. But that's a 'whole nother topic.

Possibly because it was FOUR FARKING A.M. HERE WHEN YOU POSTED THAT, NUMBNUTS! I don't sit by the computer all night long waiting for your next post. But, as it is, you can go back to waiting because your idiocy is not deserving of a reply. :roll:

For the same reason we don't use sterile instruments to embalm people with. It's pointless. Not to mention, as AK said, it is not a sterile procedure, nor need it be. But yeah... we soak overnight in Virex and then autoclave. But after that, they go into the intubation kit unwrapped and are covered in sand by the time they go into somebody's mouth again.

Not officially. But under the right circumstances they might. If said PCP had a tonne of clinical or military experience and expertise, they would certainly consider it. Better than a ten year ACP with nothing but ambo experience! I can tell you that anybody who spends a year here will be exceptionally well prepared for oilfield or any other remote medic work. You can't buy this kind of training and experience!

I think my head is going to explode. The respectable way to react here would have been to humbly admit he made a huge mistake in judgement and learn from the experience, and earn a little respect. An acceptable, though less respectable reaction would have been to silently crawl away in shame and not say anything else, letting the thread die. The sad thing is that this person either still has no clue how wrong he is, or is unwilling to admit it. That's unforgivable. I think the full of extent of his "research" was talking to Barry the retarded supervisor again. Time to pick a new mentor, Systemlord. Barry is a loser and is leading you down the path of disgrace.

Not quite sure exactly what you are asking. Are you asking if a BLS unit on scene should call for ALS? Are you asking if the patient requires ALS care? Are you asking if it should have been dispatched as ALS? No, yes, and yes.

There are many FD's who have no business providing fire suppression services either.

Word. I'd give you five points for that if I had 5 points to give.

The really sad thing is that Systemlord probably reached this conclusion through listening to Barry the paramedic supervisor. :?

I can't help but wonder if this isn't a big joke somebody is playing on you, like sending a new kid in the Air Force to go requisition a bucket of prop wash. But perhaps this "pedi radio" channel does exist, but only Boston EMS has it, and the hospital personnel assume everybody has it? A similar thing happened in my system years back. The big city provider put in a dedicated radio system of their own, and all the hospitals started ignoring the radio that all the suburbs were calling in on, sometimes chewing on suburban crews for using the "wrong" radio. Just a thought.

Woot to international relations! We could sure use some Canadian medics here in Iraq, if anybody is interested!

I don't have anything of substance to contribute here, but I just wanted to say "plus 10" for a great topic idea! =D>

I had zero experience with Toradol before I got over here. In the last week I have had occasion to use it for muscular, orthopaedic, and migraine pain. I'm a believer! I've had great results in all cases. I honestly wasn't expecting that. We have morphine, fentanyl, versed, Vicodin and T3 here, but I have enough confidence in Toradol to significantly cut back my narcotic usage. Although, I certainly am not stingy with narcotics, and not hesitant to use them when needed. And, generally speaking, I take my patient's word for the quality of their pain, even if it doesn't look that painful to me. There is very little justification for doing otherwise.

Porn good. Violence bad.

I can't see the story. It asks me for a password. Although, that happens anytime I try to view a vid here, so I think it's a government network block, not the news site. They don't like us hogging bandwidth with video feeds or chat rooms. :roll: That said, if the situation is what I understand it to be, the very same thing happened with the Dallas Fire Department a couple of decades ago. A crew picked up a "stable" cardiac patient right at shift change time. One of the medics decided he had more important things to do than make a late run, so they dropped by the station and changed crews while loaded. Patient crashed. Family sued. Firemen were fired. Union appealed and got jobs back. Appeal was overturned and firemen were re-fired. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.

It wasn't towards you. It was towards your behaviour. Hate the game, not the player. The forum rules, which you agreed to when you registered here, ask that you use the search function to find relevant information before asking questions. It is not unreasonable for members to expect you to follow the rules, nor to point it out when you do not do so. That is correct. It will vary greatly from state to state. And while some states will have had experience with Canadian medics and know the routine, others will not have and will put you through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops. Eventually, however, it will get done. Although, as was already stated, I can't imagine why you would do so. But either you are serious about being a doctor, or you are not. If you are, do it. If you are not, then be a paramedic and keep talking $hit about being a doctor for the rest of your life like the other billion paramedics who never make it to med school. Whatever you do, good luck.

WTF does that have to do with anything? Dude, don't give Canadians a bad name here. Anyhow, BEorP is correct. And no, US reciprocity for a Canadian educated medic is not usually a problem. It may just take a little bureaucracy time and possibly a few hours of CE.

Unfortunately, you completely missed the point here. The point is not nurses vs. medics. It is education vs. training. I can tell you that the average medic is almost useless to me here. Despite all his "skills" and "protocol" training, he lacks the necessary education, medical and scientific understanding necessary to competently evaluate and assess patients and formulate an intelligent plan of treatment, unless of course the patient needs a traction splint or an ET tube. And your situational analysis is too narrow to be valid. Requiring an AAS for medics in Oregon is not the end all of professional progress. It is merely the first necessary step that will eventually lead to the changes we hope for.

I get the distinct impression that whit hasn't spent much time in the real world. Okay, so the patient who was perfectly calm and no threat to you, but happened to be illegally carrying a gun under his coat because he lives in a pretty bad neighbourhood, gets patted down by you and you find the gun. Now what? Do you search purses too? You better spend some time really thinking this stuff through, my friend. These half-baked ideas of yours are more likely to get you hurt than to protect you.

How long you been in the biz? That feeling doesn't last forever, you know. What are you going to do after the honeymoon is over? Change careers again in your thirties?

It would be nice if we all had as much education as an RN too. Once that happens, our prospects will be much better. Problem is, the vast majority of EMTs and medics don't want that.

They should kill the lawyers.

For me, the question isn't about whether or not transportation was appropriate. The question is whether aeromedical evacuation was appropriate.

Again, if your protocols mandate aeromedical evacuation simply based upon MOI, your protocols suck, and your agency probably sucks too.