Richard B the EMT

While I check it out, keep the answers coming, folks! Again, thank you in advance.

OK, let me take them in order, as I was taking notes... 1) As noted, popping the eyeballs back in, instead of doing the gauze donut and cup trick? Even my Paramedics cannot do that one, so far out of (local) protocols! 2) Cute, Rabbit with the phony eyeballs on springs. 3) They must have a scriptwriter connected with the Johnny Test cartoon, "Sure didn't see that one comin'". The way the family was talking, I thought there was going to be a domestic fight, as they focused on the carving knife on the table, just before the car drove into the room (must have made a wrong turn at the kitchen?). 4)Madam EMT/Pilot is getting bloodthirsty, and is looking for jobs to go on. That is a New-Jack tendency, for sure. 5) See Johnny Test reference again: You thought the skate boarder was going to either get creamed by the cars, or cause a car crash. Nope, instead, he flipped over the safety railing, and rolled down the hill. 6) While I have heard of the hypothermia treatment, it's for cardiac patients, not spinal involvements. Also, even local protocol by me doesn't do it IV, just cooling the body under armpits and on groin with ice packs. 7) Doc yelled at Rabbit for unsanctioned out of protocol treatment. Good! Doc congratulates Rabbit for the save with same out of protocol treatment. Qualified bad! 8) I kind of like the colored tarps for MCI Triage. Add similarly flags, so if covered by bodies, and run with it. 9) How many times is a Medevac or LEO helicopter going to land on a random roof, before one gives way under the weight or vibrations? 10) I am against cell phone conversations from ambulance crews anyway, but texting during an MCI? My partner once got a cell phone call from the EMT driving another unit, telling us what we already knew from listening to dispatch radio: He was on a call! 11) Same Paramedic got text message now compromised, as family member now directly involved. What does you local protocol(s) say on having a service member on a potentially dangerous to member scene, when either a family member, or a partner, is in danger? Keep them away, allow them to work the scene, or what? 11-A)I'll launch a separate string on that soon. 12 Due to his compromise with family member endangered, he abandoned his post! I don't know about your protocols, but EMS doesn't enter a known live gunfire scene without an EMS supervisor, in communication with a LEO supervisor, giving authorization first. 13) Leaving good cover from gunfire to treat a patient is never a good idea, especially when you have no idea where the shooter is at. 14) Vests (soft body armor)cover the trunk, ballistic military helmets cover the head, but even this kevlar setup leaves the wearer open to a face shot. 15) Someone else noted Rabbit caught a shot to the vest, knocking him down. I'm told it is akin to being hit in the chest by a baseball bat wielded by Reggie Jackson in his prime NY Yankees days. You might get up, but with several busted ribs. 16) Please note, once again, I call it soft body armor, not bullet-proof vest, as, with the kevlar "cop-killer" bullets available, the protective vests work, but only to a point, and they will be penetrated, and the wearer ventilated.

All please note, that this is in a non EMS discussion area, as it is not EMS related. When the US went to the digital HDTV from the old analog signals, I lost a bunch of stations. As of this time, I have spent over $100 on antennas for use with one new HDTV, and 2 converter boxes with as many old style TVs. (I also have a baby portable HDTV, picking up both analog and digital, but not too well.) FiOS has the neighborhood wired for computers, but not TV, and the last roof-top antenna we had was blown down by Hurricane Donna in September, 1960. Yeah, folks, I'm using Rabbit Ears. I can see one of the transmit sites from the street in front of my house (Empire State Building), but know some of the stations I used to watch are located in the Meadowlands in New Jersey, and others are in Garden City, Nassau County. I have 4 TV sets, in different rooms in the house, and I don't have the same channels on any of them. The living room won't play channels 9, 11, 13, or 25. The dining room won't show 7, 11, or 13, but shows a number of duplicate Spanish language stations (not a help, I don't speak Spanish). I have a set in the spare bedroom that is losing 11, and a mini-TV in my room, that, dependant on what time of day, or what day, decides what stations I can, and not be able to, watch. The HDTV "Panel" antennas are not cutting it, nor was the Hi Def antenna that looked like a set of the older Rabbit Ears. Even though the Panels are supposed to be omni-directional, they most certainly are not! I cannot get to the roof for a house antenna (Momma B refuses, and with my knees, that is for the better), and a rota table antenna would mean we could lose signals for one being watched in one room, when trying to watch another station in another room. Can anyone give me the name of a good omni-directional antenna, for use in a wood frame house? Or suggestions of what to do? Thanks to any and all respondents, in advance.

In some shows, they just throw out the book on how things really are done. However, even total fabrications can have those who buck the "trend". To demonstrate that, I am told that, when a new director tried to tell the actor playing the Transporter Officer to throw the lever in one direction to "energize" the Transporter, on a second season episode of Star Trek (classic, with Capt. Kirk), the actor refused, arguing that the requested lever pull was for transporting down, not up, and he was supposed to be "beaming" someone up! Talk about living the role! (Information source: The Making Of Star Trek, by Steven Whitfield)

For the uninformed, the general nickname for an ambulance in New York City, from roughly the 1890s, is a Bus. They actually followed a kind of schedule, and route. If the "Ambulance Surgeon", who was actually an intern MD, felt was the patient was emergent, he would have the teamster/driver head the horse drawn ambulance towards the hospital at top speed.

A jury of your peers? As noted by folks funnier than myself, that equates us with Murderers, father rapists, mother stabbers, those who litter in a public dump when said dump was closed on Thanksgivings Day, and the guy who, on finding out his coffee was underdone, put it back on the stove, and was ticketed for double perking!

This just in from New York State Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Association, relaying from the New York State DoH Bureau of Emergency Medical Services Director Add this item, received from the same relay, from REMSCO, the Regional Emergency Medical Service COuncil of New York City :

It also used to be a magazine.

That was YOU?!? You're going to have to clean up my rowboat!

Confused?

Then, for Phil, old age starts at age 95! Duh!

The last time I heard of someone from real life portraying someone in "reel" life was the Fire Fighter "Mike" on "Emergency!" He actually was an Engine Motor Pump Operator for the LACoFD, and was used to drive the studio "Engine 51", as he already was licensed to drive that type vehicle. Saved the studio money by doing that.

Welcome back, you haven't posted anything in a while!

In the film, Dolly's character said it to Dabny Coleman's character, after he came on to her...again! The line was not in the song, and I apologise for any confusion I may have caused you.

No, he is not. Old age always starts twenty years older than the one speaking, so, old, for at least me, starts at age 75.

I am guessing you refer to Dolly Parton's comment in 9 to Five: ?

1) While I have had my beefs with Howie, he did right by me when I got injured in front of him one time. He practically caught me as I fell. 2)I might know this "universal call taker" by a different name. Could you describe it, and then I'll attempt a comment.

Unless the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is using Hulu, try directly from www.nbc.com

Ferrigno co-starred as a paramedic on "Trauma Center". Part of the problem is, we don't have a Jim Paige anymore, to go to bat for us, as he did with "Emergency!" Seeing how successful he was with the EMS aspect of the show, the Fire Fighters got him to try and make the fire fighting aspects of the show also more realistic. However, as visibility is nonexistant in a fire, and fire fighters don't usually stand up while directing a water stream during an interior attack, Hollywood still had to take liberties.

In it's final 2 years, instead of being an attempt at balanced Fire/PD/EMS storylines, it de-evolved into a PD show, where EMS, and even Fire, became minor secondary storylines.

I'll make an educated guess here, but perhaps you should have said "chest pain" instead of "hyperventilation". I am not trying to second guess you, here, I'm just thinking out loud.

Terr, as you are always talking about trying to find a flight paramedic to date, would you date anyone like Trauma's Rabbit?

A seminar I just attended gave the impression that cannulas and Venturi masks might be coming back into the forefront, as the NRBs might be delivering too much O2, causing problems.

It is about time I read something nice about the French military. Now, send the Nimitz and it's task force, or another carrier task force, to the area, and pull the trigger, my Navy and Marine friends.