Super EMT to the rescue. Check out these EMT students

[spenac]

Oh my dear spenac one question for you... doesnt bratt have to have brain before you can control it?

OUCH.

Never fear super emt is here.

[Chief1C]

And this has what to do with the Emergency MEDICAL Technician class? The EMT-B barely teaches enough first aid to even be a good entry level job doing just that and now they want to add more "awareness hours" for something that should be taught at length in a course which covers that specialty.

If you're so enraged, write to your congressman.. I was just pointing out the purpose of "Introduction To (Awareness)" courses. I've always believed that Rescue and EMS go hand-in-hand, since you're almost always rescuing a live victim. It doesn't mention anywhere in there that they had people refusing to take it. Offers the stepping stones to technical rescuer.

Edited June 30, 2009 by 4c6

[WolfmanHarris]

This goes back to the problem of having an advanced first aid course as an entry level to a medical field. EMT-B makes sense as a course for Firefighters, SAR Tech's, industrial, etc. Same as FF's here take their EMR (~80 hr course). The problem isn't with other things being thrown into the first aid course that take it away from EMS, it's that the EMT-B course is considered sufficient on its own to work in EMS. I'd go on, but all I can smell at the moment is dead horse.

[VentMedic]

If you're so enraged, write to your congressman.. I was just pointing out the purpose of "Introduction To (Awareness)" courses. I've always believed that Rescue and EMS go hand-in-hand, since you're almost always rescuing a live victim. It doesn't mention anywhere in there that they had people refusing to take it. Offers the stepping stones to technical rescuer.

This I miss something? Is this "cert" of Super EMT now "national"? Why write a person in Congress when this is one little volunteer town that wants attention or another patch by giving themselves an elaborate title.

I also believe that if a person is going to do any type of rescue that involves a degree of skill, it shouldn't be done half-arsed. Giving these EMTs this title may actually make them think they are qualified for more than they really are. That is when the patient and other can get injured. Rescue and EMS do go hand in hand but that does not mean those in EMS are qualified to do it. Just holding a title doe not make on an expert.

I believe this is also what Dr. Bledsoe has been writing articles about during the past few years. EMS loves the certs that get handed out by whoever or whatever but can not always back them up with proof of training or expertise.

[cosgrojo]

If you're so enraged, write to your congressman.. I was just pointing out the purpose of "Introduction To (Awareness)" courses. I've always believed that Rescue and EMS go hand-in-hand, since you're almost always rescuing a live victim. It doesn't mention anywhere in there that they had people refusing to take it. Offers the stepping stones to technical rescuer.

I don't think that people are saying that these EMT's shouldn't be involved in these awareness courses... just that it shouldn't be rolled into the actual EMT program taking away from their medical learning that they need to do. It is hard enough to get students to pay attention to A&P and Pathophys... and then you go and jingle a set of shiny keys in front of their eyes?! That can't work well.

Personally I have a problem with the instructors preening for the cameras and trying to pump up their program for future students, and future money, and not taking the job of EMT seriously enough to teach them the stuff they need to know for the bare minimum of adequacy.

[Chief1C]

This I miss something? Is this "cert" of Super EMT now "national"?

I was being sarcastic.. I was hinting into cross training, rather than just being an EMT or just being a rescue provider.

[Richard B the EMT]

While I stick to my specialty, EMS, I will ask questions of those who do other skills, like Hi Angle Rescue Rope works. I present that I know nothing, and most take the time to explain it, as with Denzel Washington in Philadelphia,

as if I were a 5 year old child.

One thing I picked up on, however, horrified me in the video. Why would anyone not rappelling down from a helo while firing an M-16/AR 14, or an AK 47 at the "bad guys", EVER go down head first? Everything the rope rescue guys, and mountain climbers I have as friends and associates, says that is one thing one NEVER does.

[bobtom]

Such a very amazing link!

pret personnel

Edited July 1, 2009 by bobtom