sirduke

Yes, but only because we use the ART system on our laptops and it is required to validate the report.

I've noticed this trend as well, seems like each new class of EMT hopefuls get bigger and sorrier as well. In the last class we had doing their clinicals with us, only three of 12 were under 250 lbs. The sad fact was that they also seemed to be only interested in getting into EMS for the down time. That was a common comment I overhear, "dang you guys get a lot of time off and if you aren't busy, ya'll got it dicked". I took time to explain to them that if that was their entire reason, then they needed to drop the course right then. I'm seeing a trend in new hopefuls who have no concept of lifting, no sense of urgency, and a lot of "in yo face" attitude. One even dared to ask why students had to take vitals and lift the stretcher. Needless to say, a quick conversation with his instructor and he was bounced.

How very typical. The local group of Firemonkeys here want to combine EMS and Fire, claiming they would be benefiting EMS. The truth is, they have a crappy old station, EMS has a new station, EMS is within budget and they are way over budget. They have decided that they will take over EMS, train us to be firemonkeys, no mention of the fact that none of them are EMT's and forget any of them being Paramedics. The chief Firemonkey stated that we would be trained as firemonkeys first, and when time and funding permitted, then the hose jockeys would be allowed to go to school and become EMTs, but he didn't see the need to have them become Paramedics as we already have medics.

I thought we'd already had this fight.

I was taught to hang NS, and the protocol where I worked then, as well as the protocol where I work now, is NS, however, I also work part-time at another service which has D5W in their protocol, so when there, I use D5W. The reason for posting this in the first place was to bring up the fact that there seems to be no standard being taught that is consistant from one school to another. When I was a paramedic student, this same Paramedic asked me what fluid I'd hang when administering D50, and when I told him NS he threw Hell. And when I informed him, as did one of my classmates, that we were taught to use NS, he informed us that we as well as our instructor were idiots. He even went on to call our instructor and raise hell with her. Our current crop of students are being instructed to hang D5W, and one of them questioned me while riding along, when I hung NS. Anyrate, still waiting for Dust to slip in, tell us all Paramedic schools suck, grumble a bit, and then enlighten us all. I've scoped this out on the Net, read all the pros and cons I could find, and still don't have a definite answer as to which is best.

Dang it mobey, you done beat Crotch to the race card.

Just wondering, our service uses a Normal Saline drip when administering D50, however, our neighboring county uses D5W for the same thing. One of our part-time medics, who has been a medic for about 18 years is very vocal in his opinion that we should be giving D5W. When I went to paramedic school we were taught to use Normal Saline, however the students we are precepting have been taught to use D5W. So I thought we'd open this up for discussion, I searched the forum, but didn't see any topic directly related to this. Can't wait for Dusty to weigh in on this one, ought to be a lively debate.

Just poking at you Dust, but if we'd let them, the Firemonkeys would take over.

I am in AWE !!! In all this, and all the follow on post, Dust hasn't used the term FIREMONKEY yet !!! Dusty, are you slipping son?

GOD BE PRAISED, HE IS DEAD

Lone, a couple of local remedies I've run across come to mind. Gargling bleach for a sore throat. Seen that more than once. Saw one local idiot use a q-tip in battery acid to remove warts.

I shot the Sheriff~ Eric Clapton why are women so hard to understand?