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Says who?

Ok, so apparently your thoughts about me have clouded your response because half of it seemed to be directed specifically at me and not at all about the topic at hand. You said: But now apparently you are limiting it to everything BUT ORNGE? See that's not fair, that's not what you said. Your statement includes ORNGE.... where you get a LOT of experience. Also, I never once said anything about MY going to air right after ALS school, so I don't know why you are directing any comments specifically at my situation. You don't like me or the way I am going about my education, I gotcha on that one. Duly noted.

So treatment for cardiac arrest secondary to hyperkalemia isn't something medics can do better than EMTs? Weird.

Never seen it. Wouldn't have a problem with it if they get it in the line of duty that they are currently participating in. Sorta like getting those save pins and baby delivery pins

I agree, what more can an EMT do in a code that a first responder can't? Heck, a first aider would provide virtually the same care!

Ahhh, the BOB treatment! Bed, Oxygen, Blanket

Using local codes is generally not a good idea. I'm betting pretty much nobody here knows what a 5150 is.

Have you been in regular contact with the physician in charge of managing your asthma? They may be able to do something more for you.

I completely agree with you! Fortunately that isn't a problem here.

You made a statement and claimed it to be fact. The burden of proof is on you.

I don't disagree. I find it a shame that medic programs around here (I can only speak to them) don't have rotations in nursing and retirement homes.

Ok so since all of you think nurses should have to ride out in ambulances so many shifts a month, I'm sure you'd agree that you should have to do x number of shifts in the ER, at the nursing home and in home care per week right? I mean if it's good for them to see our side, it is good for us to see their side. Get I get a unanimous agreement here?

You guys do make a very good point. If one thinks of PTS as a horizontal taxi and not a PTS then that makes more sense and directs how things should be run.

Same could be said of security guards though. I have been at malls where I seriously thought the security guard was a cop.... if it weren't for the lack of gun and different patches they looked identical to one.

*shrug* We'll see. Everyone has their own opinion on this and I don't regret getting my ACP in the least. I'm not the only one in my class who is in this situation. Those statistics are for 2006 and for some reason in 2007 our call volumes were generally higher. Atleast at Longlac base where I did most of my time.

I guess my concern is where does that 500 number come from? There has been no research to prove that 500 is better than 200. It is just opinion and will very much vary from one person to another.

Do you happen to know where I should send my resume? Their web site is surprisingly lacking in that information.

I disagree and agree at the same time. I think you definitely need SOME PCP experience to go on to be ALS but I don't feel it needs to be YEARS of experience. Depending on call volume, you can go on pretty quickly. For example, I feel that my 1400hrs of experience has given me adequate ability to move on to ALS. There is no way to arbitrarily decide really other than... well... arbitrarily.

Why don't you think it should be allowed?

My Primary Care Paramedic (BLS) course was: 879 didactic 45 clinical 585 field 1509 total I had to then get field experience. My Advanced Care Paramedic (ALS) is: 322 didactic 160 clinical 400 field 882 total That means my total paramedical education will have taken 2391 hours of structured school. That doesn't include my intense studying nor the real world experience at the BLS level that I had to get before ALS. What is your breakdown?

I am an Ontario medic. The local transfer company dress just like medics but they drive sprinter vehicles without flashers or sirens or anything. I HAVE seen some of the vehicles you refer to when I'm in GTA but usually they seem to have the front red flashers removed and just the side and back ones remain. I see no problem with this as this removes their ability to use them.

You say the transfer industry should do this... but what is in it for them? They aren't breaking any laws and they already have a HUGE financial investment in their current inventory. So what reason do they have for making these changes?

As a side note, when you get back from the desert what do you plan to do Dust? Any chance you may come work up here in the great white north?

It is theorized that ACP demand will spike again due to the fact that Ornge is opening up something like 10 CCP land transfer cars. They are taking their flight ACPs and upgrading them to CCP to do it. This will cause mass hiring to replace them. Some will come from existing services. Thus, as the theory goes, there will be a fair number of ACP jobs in both land and air.

So from what I read in your post it isn't so much FRs teaching FRs, it is those without experience teaching others. This I agree with. And why can't someone of one level teach another of the same level? Who teaches the highest level?