FireMedic65

Great idea! If he is interested, I'm sure admin would make an exception. Maybe even try to arrange a specified meeting for everyone to come and discuss the matter, and just that, no other crap.

I'm not surprised so many people are against him. Too many firefighters trying to run the show down there.

Oh, haha. I used The zipcode for Mt. Washington. I don't really feel like typing out that rant again anyway. Most likely, only people who understand EMS will understand and agree. Others are too dumb to grasp the concepts. Tell him where to find us if he needs support. At least from me, I can't speak for anyone else.

it won't let me make an account to rant on their message board

I say good for em. It's not hard at all to meet training requirements. Those who complain about leaving the area with out the medics, need to be slapped. I don't want untrained people coming to help me, neither should you. If untrained/qualified personal come to my care and I find out about it, I'll sue. Just wait until one of those idiots hurts or kills someone because of the lack of training.

I'll go just to kick you both in the balls

bummer

woohooo GO IRISH! Not a Notre Damn fan or anything. I would love to visit Ireland some day. My family history dates back to there and Hungary.

I have seen docs look up information all the time. Even once seen the doc look up how to do/use something on youtube.

It's been done before, my several different companies.

That's some funny stuff

I have never used any of those, so I can't really say. I have used EMMA, didn't like it very much. Code 3, I liked. EMSTAT, I like a lot.

I will be over later to swim in your pool! Anyway, glad she is alright. Why there wasn't someone watching her, who knows. When I was a lifeguard, I made sure little kids stayed away from those things. It was part of the job, to look over as much as you can and keep an eye on kids. I see too many lifeguards now a days just getting a tan or reading a book. As for the rescue itself, I call a lot of fail. Yes, it was a shallow end of the pool, but they were all wearing bunker gear. They should know better. I was waiting for the water rescue raft to float on by too.

at least she is hot

Yea... that's fantastic! I like my wording better. My topic, my wording. The media gets to to do it.

Came across this earlier today http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/...ofol/index.html (CNN) -- The Los Angeles coroner has concluded preliminarily that singer Michael Jackson died of an overdose of propofol, a powerful sedative he was given to help him sleep, according to court documents released Monday. Los Angeles' coroner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran reached that preliminary conclusion after reviewing toxicology results carried out on Jackson's blood, according to a search warrant and affidavit unsealed in Houston, Texas. The affidavit outlines probable cause for search warrants of the offices of doctors who are believed to have treated Jackson. The Associated Press is quoting a single law enforcement official, who says the L.A. County Coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office told CNN they had "no comment" on the report. An LAPD spokesman says the story did not come from their department. The 32-page warrant said Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician, told a detective that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for six weeks. Murray said each night he gave Jackson 50 mg of propofol, also known as Diprivan, diluted with the anesthetic lidocaine via an intravenous drip. Worried that Jackson may have been becoming addicted to the drug, the Houston cardiologist said he attempted to wean him from it, putting together combinations of other drugs that succeeded in helping Jackson sleep during the two nights prior to his death. But on June 25, other drugs failed to do the job, as he recounted to detectives in an hour-by-hour account that was detailed by detective Orlando Martinez of the Los Angeles Police Department: Learn more about the events of the night Jackson died » -- At about 1:30 a.m., Murray gave Jackson 10 mg of Valium. -- At about 2 a.m., he injected Jackson with 2 mg of the anti-anxiety drug Ativan. -- At about 3 a.m., Murray then administered 2 mg of the sedative Versed. -- At about 5 a.m., he administered another 2 mg of Ativan. -- At about 7:30 a.m., Murray gave Jackson yet another 2 mg of Versed while monitoring him with a device that measured the oxygen saturation of a his blood. -- At about 10:40 a.m., "after repeated demands/requests from Jackson," Murray administered 25 mg of propofol, the document said. "Jackson finally went to sleep and Murray stated that he remained monitoring him. After approximately 10 minutes, Murray stated he left Jackson's side to go to the restroom and relieve himself. Murray stated he was out of the room for about two minutes maximum. Upon his return, Murray noticed that Jackson was no longer breathing," the affidavit said. Efforts at CPR proved fruitless. According to the warrant and affidavit, Murray said he was not the first doctor to give Jackson the powerful anesthetic, which the singer called his "milk." The drug has a milky appearance. The document also cited reports from staff at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, where Jackson's body was taken, who said Murray "admitted" to having given Jackson flumazenil to counteract the Ativan. The document listed another five doctors and a nurse practitioner who were said to have treated Jackson. "Detectives ... believe that the miscellaneous prescriptions, from multiple doctors ... could have contributed to his death," the document said. It added that "it cannot be determined whether the cause of death is due to the actions of a single night and/or a single doctor, or the grossly negligent treatment of several doctors over an extended period of time." Propofol is administered intravenously in operating rooms as a general anesthetic, the manufacturer AstraZeneca told CNN. The drug works as a depressant on the central nervous system. "It works on your brain," said Dr. Zeev Kain, the chair of the anesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine. "It basically puts the entire brain to sleep." However, once the infusion is stopped, the patient wakes up almost immediately. advertisement "So if you're going to do this, you'd have to have somebody right there giving you the medication and monitoring you continuously," Kain said. Dr. Hector Vila, chairman of the Ambulatory Surgery Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, said he administers the drug during office procedures such as urology, dentistry and gynecology. It is also the most common anesthetic for colonoscopies, he said.

I was actually going to make a terrible joke... so what was the number?

I guess not..

Well, there is often heated debates here on just about anything, no worries. Sorry to hear about your misfortune but glad to hear you made it through. I have been and always will be pro training, as you will notice with a lot of people here on this forum. We never stop learning in medicine, and it should not stop there. But that's another discussion

you're a heli pilot? You may be the first heli pilot on here! That I know of at least. Welcome to the city by the way

helis are just plan awesome... always have and always will

Ah yes... Medic 10! I should apply for per diem there

Someone holding an assault rifle in public is an emergency to me. If I saw "cops" hanging around and some chick is holding an assault rifle, yea I am calling 911. I can go to the store tomorrow and buy a cop uniform and walk around holding a gun and no one would be the wiser. You don't see things like that, it's suspicious.

I'll take 12 different pictures of me in bunker pants, ems shirt unbuttoned of course, holding a cops gun for you.. and photoshop then onto a calendar

Glad everyone is alright. Also hope the patient they were going to help also got the help they needed. Helicopters have always been dangerous and were never meant to fly. Even though they are so awesome! Stay safe everyone.