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^ Just trying to clarify a bit. Is that any psych patient, any patient that is currently on a hold, or only aggressive psych patients. Not all psych patients are on a hold and not all psych patients on a hold are a danger [grave disability holds, for example]

^ Why do you hate periods and what type of psych patients are the ones that deserve to go by law enforcement [did they break a law?] instead of by ambulance? This said, psych patients who are not on a hold/conservatorship with no other condition that necessitates transport should go by cab.

Meh, it's Who's Line is it Anyways. Expecting that to show a proper representation of any profession or trade is like expecting The Colbert Report to be a proper representation of cable news programs and conservatives.

Yea, and the security guards at the hospital aren't armed either. This is not to say, though, that police involvement on scene is not an option. Strike 1. Medics can use chemical restraints if needed. Strike 2. As stated before, psychiatric issues are medical, that is why they are treated by physicians in a hospital or clinic setting. Strike 3. If the patient is a flight risk, then that should be an indication for restraints. Strike err...4.

More reports, more witnesses.

The scores here are really like the scores from "Who's Line is it Anyways?" [spoil:d91c63dbda]it really doesn't matter[/spoil:d91c63dbda]

I have to applaud the Mass. state public health person. She basically said in a news conference that the MRSA wasn't new and the best way to avoid a community associated MRSA was proper hand and wound washing and to stop misusing antibiotics.

Next time think about putting the source in your original post. -5 for not citing sources on a cut and paste job. +4 for admitting it

^ Same thing in California. The exception to that is if you are a part of a team [for example, you and your partner]. In that case, one report can be sent for both members instead of each sending in their own report.

Well, the United States was founded by a bunch of traitors. There comes a point in time when your roots bear no matter to your current position. That said, there are times when your roots bear utter importance to where you're at now also. The key is trying to decide which part of your heritage you keep and which you do away with.

When I was working in California, it was like that [after 40 hours you get time and a half] for the 24 hour units. The 12's were paid straight time for the first 8 hours, time and a half for work between 8 and 12 hours, and double time there after.

The Covington in Aliso Viejo and Walnut Manor in Anaheim. There are a handful of others, but the bad ones much more numerous then the good ones.

Errr, if traffic is at a standstill, where exactly do you expect the cars to move to clear a path for you're code three dialysis run?

The aristocrats!

It's not stalking till you get caught.

^ He waits.

Assuming limited ALS resources: Yes. Assuming unlimited ALS resources: No. There are reasons that I can think of that might [yes, I'm leaving as much wiggle room as possible on here] warrant a BLS unit to respond and transport code 3. Even then, an ALS unit would probably be preferred for the extra services that they offer [pain management]. An example would be a time critical, non-life threatening event such as moving a patient to a specialty hospital for limb reattachment.

My old company offered ALS services [RN, RT, or RN and RT trips were considered ALS]. Out of all the ALS transports I did, I transported a whopping 2 code 3 over 2 years. One was a patient who was paced [implanted pacemaker failed in the AM. He had a transvenious pacemaker put in and was being transfered to have surgery to fix/replace his implanted one] and the transferring hospital had done just about everything to screw up the transvenous pacer [they had it turned all the way up to maintain capture]. While we were prepping the patient [RN getting information, getting the patient hooked up to our monitor, etc], the hospital's RN ended up bumping the pace maker wiring causing it to come unplugged. The second was an RT transport for a possible leaking trach. We got about halfway to the original destination when the RT noticed that the destination was changed in the RN notes. As we were getting off the freeway to call the transferring SNF, the patient desated. Of course, the EMT in the back with the RT "didn't feel comfortable" bagging the patient if he needed to.

The sad part is that it seems that the damage most of the time is 20% wear and tear and 80% crew inflicted. Unless holes normally open up in the steering wheel that are strangely a perfect fit for the unit's key.

We just had numbers at the company that I used to work for. The only unit numbers below 60 were wheel chair vans [they were on a seperate channel and in the unit numbers were in the 50's], so most people dropped one-hundred for our hundred plus number units [ex. unit 104 would be called 04 over the radio a lot].

Chuck Norris can divide by zero. Chuck Norris can teach Boston resident to drive, the problem is that he thinks it's more fun to watch how they currently drive.

^ Educational too

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Someone in my MBS class just posted a link to a bunch of these our face book group. This one seems the most relevant to EMS. Maybe some class out there should produce some of these for EMS. Here's "Mr. Always Prepared for Everything Guy"

Holy bump Batman.