Houston EMS

[Amhet1]

Dust mentioned "A tonne of New York companies, including American Airlines, moved here in the last few decades, so there are a crapload (read: too many) of frostbacks down here already."

Are frostbacks anything like our "Florida Bluehairs"?

I have read the reports about Galveston and how AFU Houston is. Instead of a standard ambulance staff, Houston has 65 ambulances, with 12 BLS, 10 all ALS (in the more rural areas, and the rest are 1/1. That alone is a recipe for disaster. Over half of the units are running 5,000 runs or more. More than a dozen units are averaging >1.00 UHU per shift.

To put that into perspective, a unit running more than 3,000 calls per year is being overtasked. UHU's should be .35 (static deployment) to .65 (dynamic deployment).

But to get back on topic (sorta).... Wasnt it Houston or Dallas that did the study that essentially killed MAST trousers?? I remember it, but too old to remember the specifics surrounding it. Im pretty sure that it was in urban Texas where the transport times were <10 minutes and the patients that died were going to anyway so they blamed the MAST....

[dougd]

The average packer is a middle aged, middle class family guy who's been around long enough to realise that it's smart to hedge your bets.

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[Amhet1]

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Would you prefer Epi or a lead injection?