Richard B the EMT

There are such animals? (Sorry. Couldn't resist) What about an infant Non re Breather (NRB), with no attempt to seal against the dog's nose? I have no experience in this, and am guessing. Just realized the unintentional joke,,,Canine and "Seal". Add the fish, as I said that on porpoise, for the halibut! Somebody stop me!

Happy Un-Birthday to YOUUUUUUU!

Actually, I was trying to do jokes on time, time pieces, and such, hence the title of "TIME Lines"? Or is that for some other time? Must be a time joke, after all, just not this time.

Reminds me of a story. Seems a GI was being taught maintenance on tanks, accidently dropped a wrench into the works of the tank he was working on, and the mechanism, and the tank, totally ended up FUBAR. They reassigned the guy to a tank destroyer unit!

On a different call type, why do some folks put butter or margarine on burns? 1) Why sautee a burned person? 2) WE know that when the ER or burn center crews attempt to remove the butter or margarine, the pain of the burn is going to be much worse. Related to that, back in 1975, a doctor giving a lecture to my VAC insisted we treat burns by placing a burnt extremity into ice water. We couldn't get him to understand the concept of there not being an ice machine on our ambulances to provide ice, in the middle of the beach, in the middle of the summer. Yet another: Some 25+ years ago, a doctor who got his start in a VAS was earning some pocket change by teaching American Red Cross CPR to some ER doctors in a hospital that wanted to upgrade to being a trauma center. "You find a patient who is breathless and pulseless. What do you do?" "Defibrillate him!" "Try this: You are walking on the beach at Coney Island, and find a patient who is breathless and pulseless. What do you do?" "I'd defibrillate him". "Tell me, doctor, do you go swimming with a defibrillator stored in your swim suit back pocket?" Clueless, and needing to buy a vowel!

Please specify which type Indian, one originating in India, or a "Native American/First Nations" tribes-person. (First Nations refers to someone from the tribes in Canada)

At the scene of an EDP in a SNF's cafeteria, I was standing next to one of the LEOs. He turned to me, the only person in the room: 1) wearing a baseball cap, and 2) wearing a baseball cap with an FDNY logo on it, and asked ME if there was an ETA for EMS!

With the exception of the Far Rockaway High School 100th Anniversary Homecoming game against Boys and Girls High School (FRHS won!), I have not really followed football, either High School, College, or "Pro", from when Joe Willy Namath (#12) was still throwing Quarterback for the NY Jets at Shea Stadium.

The only driving schools I know of that use ambulances are the EVOC areas of larger metropolitan EMS academies, using older ambulances than whatever their main fleet is using. The only time I can recall this not being the case was when NYC EMS started getting delivery of the then new ABS equipped ambulances, 2 were assigned to EVOC.

Whatever the equipment, carried or worn, I do agree with the assessment that one does not wear either the red cross or Star Of Life on their outfit, as, presuming sniper fire from "da bad guys", gives them something to target the sniper-scope cross hairs on. As an EMT never been shot at, but with a ballistic vest issued me, my thing is stopping the hurt, so to speak, not causing it, so I don't know if I'd be involved with having my own firepower. That issue is going to be problematic of the individual and the policies of the agencies or agency involved (follow my mantra: follow local protocols as mine are probably different from yours). As for treating while in the line of fire, ahhh, NO WAY! A hasty retreat to behind something substantial against incoming fire is heavily encouraged, and don't leave your patient behind. If you are an inactive USMC (there are no former members!) don't consider it a "retreat", consider it an "advance to the rear"!

This is one time your avatar is correct in depiction, then, 'zilla.

OK, I am thinking as someone not tactically trained, but has used to a degree a vest. The vest is close to you, you can reach whatever stock you need quickly, and if you have to flee one area after a treatment is started, it goes with you to restart at the safe(er) area. A backpack has to be removed, unless your partner has a duplicate pack, and you work out of theirs while not removing it. If removed from the wearer for articles to be taken out and used, if the conditions say "run for the hills", understandably, you are going to move, and the hell with the bag for now. However, you and (hopefully) the patient are in a safe zone, but the supplies are useless to you, as they are in the danger zone and unavailable. For back pack, also say hand carried kit. Under the same scenario, the same end result can happen. As for stocking said vest, backpack, or carry bag, I'd go heavy on bulky dressings, triangle bandages, 30 inch "arm boards", and a couple of 1" and 2" tape rolls. (Remember that I am BLS, and think as a BLS, too. ALS providers would probably have more stuff.) Also, I'd be going in with a long back board with the local specification number of straps, multi size adjustable "C" collar (with a head bed or equivalent, if local protocols use them), a "D" cylinder with attached regulator, at least one non-re-breather mask (NRB), and possibly a Bag Valve Mask (BVM).

Have I been ripped off again at the sperm bank, and they didn't let me know my "swimmers" were again stolen? Damn, I'm popular!

Circa 1975-1977, the ambulance service I was then with did a lot of inter facility transfers from nursing homes to hospitals. One in Manhattan sent out one patient for a supapubic (spelling?) tube to be changed. The ER nurse at triage told us they'd push us into "fast track" to do the replacement, and as the procedure was done on our ambulance gurney, another ER nurse said to me, Then, with the patient remaining on our gurney the entire trip, treatment, and return trip, on arrival back at the sending facility, a facility nurse commented to me, about the ER nurses, For once, I kept my big mouth shut. A side note here: this was one of the bad facilities, where you could smell the urine stink from the patient floors before the elevator doors opened onto them.

My mom is a retired schoolteacher. I read the definitions in the first posting to her, and she says it is just semantics, different ways of saying the same thing, with the same ultimate conclusion.

I have to admit I hadn't thought of that! Actually, unless there is a dairy farm somewhere I don't know about, this is the only bull in NYC, off Wall Street. http://barnabasnagy.com/wp-content/uploads...mannysebull.jpg

Even a stopped watch is correct twice a day.

What is usually heard, just before the call to 9-1-1 is made? "Hold my beer and watch me do this!" The fool threw the clock out the window to see if he could make time fly. He was arrested on the charge of trying to kill time. His radical lawyer got him off, after proving the clock struck first. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// A guy came up to me with two large suitcases, put them down, and showed me a watch. The watch had a built in GPS, count-up timer, count-down timer, compass, GMRS radio, heart rate monitor, text messaging ability, and a built in HD TV set. I bought the watch, and the guy started walking away, leaving the two large suitcases.

As I read this today in the New York Post, the obvious question comes to the fore: Why do these folks have that much time on their hands?

If you can keep your head, while all around you others are losing theirs, and blaming it on you... You just don't understand the situation!

That sounds like the SNL "infomercial" for a book on not getting into debt: "If you don't have the money, don't buy it"

I have a simple problem with red: it hides blood what has gotten onto it, even with best efforts not to.

Only on the original "CSI" show, the episode written by the team from "Two and a Half Men".

I get the feeling, at least as far as "Class 'A' Dress Uniforms" go, we are still going to look like the LEOs or Fire Fighters, no matter what color, or combination of colors, the uniform is. As for work uniform, you get 50 people to discuss it, and they will be undecided with 50 choices. Or...we could end up looking like members of the US Military, so choose your favorite branch (Army, Navy/Coast Guard, Marines, or Airmen).

I think it is "Dr House", as seen on the Fox Television Network.