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Pfft, Chuck Norris? How about Mr. Rogers in a blood stained sweater?

The state of California recognizes three levels of care, EMT-I (one, AKA EMT-Basic), EMT-II (two, aka intermediate, aka "limited advanced life support") and EMT-Paramedic. EMT-IIs are limited only to counties which are unable to provide full paramedic service. As such, you will not find them in most counties, and definitely not in LA, OC, SD, SB, or Riverside Counties. California organizes EMS by counties or groups of counties. While the scope of practice for EMT-Bs is set by the state, that scope of practice, as well as the actual protocols governing treatment, are set by the county medical director. As such, San Diego County will have a different protocol than Orange County and Orange County will have a different protocol than Los Angeles County, and so on. Orange and Los Angeles Counties are heavily fire based EMS. In fact, in Orange County paramedics are only with the fire department. The sole exception to this is Mercy Air (Air Methods) which provides HEMS to the county. While each city provides paramedic service through their fire department (or Orange County Fire Authority of OCFA is contracted to provide fire suppression to the city), some cities contract out transport to a private company. As such, it is not uncommon to find a private ambulance, a fire department ambulance, and a fire engine on scene of a 911 call (cough OCFA in Irvine cough). Off the top of my head, the main ambulance companies when I left were: Service (information) [head quarters location] Care (911 provider to most of Northern OC, numerous LA County 911 contracts, University Children's Hospital contract) [Anaheim north of CHOC] Medix (911 provider for many cities in Southern OC) [Mission Viejo] Doctors (911 provider for Seal Beach, Irvine, and a few other cities) [irvine near 5/405 interchange] Emergency (911 service for Brea IIRC) [brea] Pacific (IFT only) [don't know to be honest] Lynch (IFT only, Children's Hospital of Orange County contract) [Anaheim near 91/57 interchange] Shoreline (relatively new, IFT only) [Huntington Beach] Schaffer (IFT only in OC since losing the Costa Mesa contract to Care, 911 contracts in LA County) [Don't know, to be honest] To become certified in OC, you need to be certified to the EMT-B level by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. You may be able to get certified via reciprocity, but you would need to talk to OCEMS in that regard. To be able to work in OC, you will need an OC EMT-B certification, OC Ambulance Attendant License, health care provider CPR certification, and a physical done by a physician and have the physician fill out the form from the California DMV (the green "DOT" card), and a Livescan background check. To drive, you will need a second Livescan check (government agencies can't share information due to privacy laws), a physical (the same one that OCEMS is going to ask for. Yes, you can use the same physical/card for both), and pass a multiple choice test. Do pick up the information booklet from the DMV, it's only a few dollars and contains everything you need to know. By everything, yes, the test will ask questions based off of even the obscure information in the book. Livescan background checks can be obtained at any police department and includes electronic finger printing. To note, the OC EMT-B and OC Ambulance Attendant essentially have the same requirements and are generally obtained in the same visit to the OCEMS office in down town Santa Ana.

The UN has basically given it a go... Personally, I think we can save a ton of money by just running live fire drills off the coast of Somalia. The US navy gets some nice little live fire drills and the Somli government gets some help "policing" their waters.

On the bright side, more pirates means less global warming, as seen by this graph: Now, to keep the pirate population in check, we need to fund the Japanese to start spurting out more ninjas.

*Anything involving the words "every patient," and "oxygen" *Any place where it's standard practice to use lights and sirens on the freeways when traffic is moving. The last thing we should be doing is forcing cars to merge at 65 MPH. I want a laminar flow on the freeways. *Combination of the words "restraints, "psych," and "all"

If she really cared for the poor bird she would have ran it over again to put it out of its misery.

Have you seen my legs?

On some river in the middle of no where, there's a bridge missing its troll.

You've got to be joking. Anyone who thinks that LA and Orange County EMS setup is progressive has no clue what they are talking about. Fire based EMS: Where the expectations are so low that they aren't even expected to interpret a 12 lead.

Ah, I thought that this topic seemed familiar. Hi GAMedic. How's it going? Couldn't you come up with something new? After all, you pulled the "chaplain and daughter watching the programs" line last time you were here. http://www.emtcity.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.ph...hbo&start=0

Err, how does one become postictal without having a seizure?

Who has said that porn in the work place is ok anyways?

I reject you as my EMS God, therefore you are not a god. Hence, using the self applied adjective of "god" is false advertising, which you should not do.

Whoa, wait a second. Since when did a R rated film mean nudity? Pick one of the following to complain about; R rated films or pornography. You can't throw both out there and then when people say no to porn, yes to R rated films complain about us condoning porn.

1. Just because someone is religious doesn't give them veto power over the activities that takes place. After all, what if the person who is watching the program is religious? 2. I wouldn't care if the department chaplain walked in on anything I was watching.

Realistically, unless some sort of public relation (open house, station tours, etc) or public education activity has been planned, I don't see any reason for friends, family, or the public to be hanging around the station anyways. Pop in for 5 minutes to say "Hi" is fine, but they shouldn't be there for long anyways. If you are watching something "unprofessional" then it should easily be paused or stopped until the guests are gone. As such, I don't buy the "It's after an arbitrary time, we can do essentially what ever we want." Now, yes, I agree that pornography has no place at the workplace. I disagree that there should be a formal rating guideline that bans, say, all R rated movies. No one should be forced to watch a movie that they dislike, but the onus is on both parties to work out a compromise, even if that means that one person leaves the room.

The "Will it blend" comment was a joke in reference to the viral advertising campaign for Blendtec blenders. EMTD caught the reference. Personally, I've transported my fair share of flowers, vases, etc for patient's being discharged from the hospital. They always went up front either in the seat of on the floor and never once did I have one fall over and break. Now, yes, a nice smooth non-emergent transport isn't necessarily the same as a lights and sirens emergency transport, but if the driver his hitting bumps so hard that he would bounce the urn around the cab, then he is also going to be driving so roughly that patient care is going to be disrupted. If transports are normally that bumpy, then you need better roads, better drivers, or both.

Will it blend?

Just because he's gone to pieces (ashes?) doesn't mean he isn't just as able to ride in the passenger seat just like any other relative.

^ Well, according to one review the game considers it bad if you use a c-collar AND a backboard.

Central South, South Central? Same difference.

Grr at the basic who wrote that report. If you need to document that you have a LOL in NAD, then document that you have a LOL in NAD. What you don't do is vent on the run sheet.

http://www.emtcity.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5190 EMT City Book Club!

Hehe, the hospital I used to volunteer at had patient placement down to an art form. There were 3 hallway beds with cardiac monitors, the code room was used for a "Triage Plus" (physician examines patient, orders any lab tests needed, patient waits in the lobby pending lab results) and they took over the radiology holding area (extra 4 beds that were used for fast track) after radiology closed for the day and on weekends. It was one of the few hospitals when I was working that I could say I have never had to hold the wall for longer than 10 minutes at, and even that could be counted on one hand. Heck, half the time there was a bed assigned and noted on the white board by the time we arrived.