Richard B the EMT

Either it was a bad concept, or instructions for dummies, but I remember seeing a soft body armor trauma plate, had printed on it, "This Side Towards Bullet".

That ends up becoming the multi-string of what to call the vehicle, which, as discussed in those many threads, range from Ambulance, Rescue, Floodlight Unit (!), to too many names to take up our limited bandwidth, here. I am sometimes guilty of that. Ever notice when referring to an ambulance on a Cadillac chassis, I somehow end up calling the beautiful beast a "Caddy-Lance"?

Klinger? Well, I don't know, but Corporal Maxwell Q Klinger, US Army 4077 MASH was of Lebanese/American extraction. "Go Mud Hens!"

When overlooking the scene for the first time, on arrival, those who allegedly freeze might simply be doing a "Scene Safety Survey", combined with an "Oh, Shoot!" moment.

I'm showing my age again. I remember riding in McCoy/Miller Caddy-lances. Must be the old Cadillac ride, they were nice machines.

Seems you did what you had to, followed your protocols, perhaps went a tiny bit overboard as patient advocate, but I think we all do at various points of the job. Sounds like, ultimately, youse done good.

Treat the patients, UPGRADE the machines, read the maps, and trust dispatch, just not totally.

I feel I need to restate my point, that it was a computer assisted dispatch glitch, that could have happened to either a paid OR volunteer ambulance service. I live in a section of Queens County, New York City, that has a Hillside Avenue, in a private, gated residential section, but I am also aware that there is another Hillside Avenue in a more central section of Queens county, which is about half and half residential and major business area. As recently as a month ago, I heard one of my local units being sent out on a shooting call in the gated community, only to be cancelled half a minute later, as an "inland" unit had just been flagged down at the job in one of the business areas in central Queens. I must presume in any CAD system, or even with maps on the ambulances, that mistakes like this will continue to happen, but all parties concerned are trying to eliminate the glitches.

Oh My GAWD! "Just some trees and overhead wires. Nothing else." Can the person who actually said this walk and chew gum at the same time? (I know the original was different, just keeping it rated "G" here)

The initials POA are used here, but, as I may have a different way of saying the same thing, please define what you mean by POA, before I enter the discussion more fully. Thanks in advance.

Before the merger, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation EMS uniform was white shirt, hunter green pants, jacket and tie. Ties were always worn with the long sleeve shirt, or anytime you were wearing the jacket. If you went formal, change from the green baseball cap with mini shoulder patch on the front, to the green "8 point Garrison" hat. In all cases, socks were black, and shoes were supposed to be a type that held a bright shine. Left shoulder was the department patch, and the right was the level of training NY State DoH EMT patch, or the NYC EMS Paramedic patch. The badge was worn on the left front of the chest of the outermost garment, with nametag below, and any award ribbons above the badge. The FDNY EMS uniform is different. It's Navy Blue shirt and pants, black socks, and dependant on if working inside or field, either patent leather shoes, or special blood bourne pathogen resistant boots. Except for the socks, the department supplies the uniforms. That was the work or "Class B Uniform" The dress, or "Class A Uniform" is a light blue shirt, Navy blue single breasted jacket (for some reason is called a "blouse", but I am not going into semantics at this time) and tie, with navy blue "Bell Cap" ( I think the cap makes us look like conductors on the Long Island Rail Road)with Star of Life device, and, again, the black leather patent shoes. For rain, there's a really nice looking navy blue Trench Coat that goes with the ensemble. Oops, I forgot to mention, EMTs and Paramedics wear collar pins on whatever shirt, that are the Star of Life with FDNY overlay. Again, all shirts, department "work" jackets, and blouses, have the FDNY patch on the left shoulder, the modified NYS EMT patch (modified with FDNY "rocker" on the top), or FDNY Paramedic patch, on the right shoulder. Lieutenants wear light blue shirts for "work" uniform, white shirts for "Class A", with rank on the collars. Captains and above wear white shirts, and ties on both long and short sleeve shirts. Both the lieutenants and above wear a decorative SOL device on their lapels of their double breasted blouse. Captains and above, with appropriate gold bands and scrambled eggs on the brim, wear white bell caps, lieutenants a silver band. EMTs and Paramedics have your basic black band on their bell caps.

Someone already stated what is actually FDNY EMS policy, you treat the patient you have. If you are not yet on the scene, and your FDNY EMS ambulance comes up on a different incident, and here I specify on the street, you call it in that you have a "flag-down". Dispatch then is supposed to put another unit onto your original call. If you have, after arrival, another patient, say, in the lobby, not connected with your assignment on the 5th floor, you have to treat the one in the lobby, even as you request another ambulance for the 5th floor. Some get around this, at least in part, by having one half of the team stay with the lobby patient, and the other goes up to the 5th, so, either way, some kind of care will be started on both patients. This is dependant on what type calls each assignment came over as, originally. Half of a second team can continue care with the first team's lobby call, the other half does the same on the 5th, and everyone goes to the same hospital, and then back with their original partners and vehicles. I admit that this does not always work. Whatever is done, keep the dispatcher appraised as to what you're doing, or trying to do. I also show my sometimes lazy side, when I am assigned an EDP, and handle that one, even as a really nasty MCI is going down in my district. Yet, sometimes, yes, I do want to do the MCI.

A Scot supposedly is frugal, to the point he'd never lose any money (think the Disney cartoon character Scrooge McDuck, actually has the physical first dime he ever earned), and the Jews only wants to make money, due to, in centuries past, Jews had legislation passed against them, that they became the only people allowed to charge interest on money loans. Charging interest was so "anti-christian", you see. Both are very negative stereotypes.

I have only smoked, directly, 2 cigarettes, when I was 13, and an unknown number due to second hand smoke. By the way, there is a chain drug store just opened in my 'hood. I find it amusing, and a bit perplexing, that, behind the cashier, they have a "Tobacco Shop", and right next to it, the "Stop Smoking" section!

Now I really am going to "Do the Time Warp". The UFO shown in the late 1970s or early 1980s show, "The Invaders"? That actually could be in the late 1960s. I know they had a Sci-Fi network series in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

As it is almost local midnight as I post, I am not going to look for a picture, but those Vipers look much like the ones from the old ABC TV network's Galactica, as best my memory serves me. Oh, by the way, that size comparison chart didn't show either of the Battle Stars, an X-wing, a Y-wing, or a Tie-fighter. I am disappointed.

Again, as a BLS provider, I ask for a clarification. You say "hematoma", which is the dollar fifty word meaning "bruise". Don't you mean an ongoing bleed, as in "Hemorrage"? (Spell Check allowed these spelling- "hematoma", and "hemorrage". I admit uncertanty if they are spelled correctly, but at least you know I tried to address it.)

It appears the consensus is, if a family member, and only a family member, requests the DNR be disregarded, we use all protocols we are supposed to use. We will also, at minimum, notify our On Line Medical Control of the situation. The consensus also seems to be, if resuscitation efforts are already started before a DNR order is presented to the on scene crew(s), the efforts will be continued until OLMC says otherwise, or arrival at the Emergency Department, when the onus (if any) will then fall on the ED crew, and not the EMS crew, if efforts are then terminated.

I have teachers in my family. All agree that the Irish were already arriving in the United States of America from before the Civil War, and during it. Irish immigrants fought for the "Army of the Republic" (United States Army), and the Confederate States of America. The "Fighting 69th" from New York was predominantly Irish, which is why they are still a favorite of the Saint Patrick's Day Parade, usually as one of the first units in the parade to march up 5th Avenue, usually followed by the FDNY.

As some of you know, I have neither "the cable" or a "Sat-Dish", so I have to ask: Is the Galactica the same in both the 1979-1980 TV Series, and the Sci-Fi Network series? Same question for the Viper fighter. (We'll avoid the obvious of the 2 shows having different casts, and the newer one having humanoid Cylon robots, which I know about from reading the TV section of the newspapers)

Where are the "Eagle" class ships from "Space 1999", or the UFOs, Sky/Divers, or other Earth ships from "UFO"? And where are the "Fireball" class ships, as in "Fireball XL5, or the "Gallisphere" from Planet Patrol? Where is the "Botany Bay", from Star Trek episode "Space Seed"? The 2 space ships from "The Black Hole"? Where is Becca Valentine's beloved "Maru" from Andromeda? The Jupiter 2 from the original TV show Lost In Space? The display had a Saturn 5, but where is the Mercury-Redstone, a Viking, or that nasty V2 rocket? One final question: Who put the tribbles in the Quadrotriticale? ("Would someone close that door?)

I know I've mentioned this elsewhere on EMT City. Due to my ethnic, religious, and ancestral background, I should be able to speak German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Yiddish. Through school training, I should be able to speak Spanish, and "binary mathematics". My detractors would have you believe I need to learn English. However... I only speak English, Noo Yawk variety!

While it is primarily a billing agency using the same type "e-PCRs" as the FDNY EMS, you night want to contact my friend, Ron, at EMS Revenue Associates. It might even have you get a relatively simple Pre-hospital Care Report form. www.emsrev.com

I don't actually remember, but it seems the sort of short story Ellison would write.

Wait one moment, here. Captain Kirk's ("Classic" Star Trek) Enterprise (NCC1701) was a Lexington class starship, Admiral Kirk's (movies) Enterprise (NCC1701-A) was an Enterprise class starship, and Captain Picard's ("Next Generation") Enterprise (NCC1701-D) was a Galaxy class starship. All flew for "Star Fleet", as "Gun-Ship Explorers", and in defence of the United Federation of Planets, AKA "The Federation". At no time was there a "Federation" class starship. ("Cowboy Diplomacy" my ass!) As for the "Death Star" taken out by the X-Wing class mid range Fighter, piloted by Luke Skywalker (designation "Red Five"), that Death Star was more of a moonlet size artificial structure, not an entire world sized craft. The Death Star took out planets much bigger than itself, causing a great disturbance in "The Force". As established in other strings, sometimes I have a bit too much time on my hands!