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Welcome to Ohio 2010! We just got that capability without all the awesome cameras and signage. Seriously though, I say go for sponsorship! Maybe if we put sponsor stickers on it we can get free medics and equipment?

That's kinda characteristic of most things sulfer. Definately gonna put me on alert.

Right, I've read 3 pages deep in google searching "Chemical Suicide", "Detergent Suicide", "Hydrogen Sulfide Suicide", "H2S Suicide"... I'm fishing for a powerpoint or .jpg here...

I remember seeing something on this about a year ago and our Chief of Police just gave us another version in hardcopy of a powerpoint on it. Pretty scary stuff, I mean how often do you get called to an unconcious/unknown and thirty six possibilities and a single dynamic plan of action is screaming through your head? I know, scene safety is paramount but it's not always easiliy recognizable. According to what I've read on it, several successful users have posted warning signs on their vehicle doors but the Sugar Creek incident did not have that. It just takes opening an unlabled car door to take down our first out crew and nobody would know until we didn't answer a 20 minute check. I'll keep my head on a swivel for buckets in cars on Unc/Unk type calls but like Dwayne said, what about in a bathroom? The whole house would be affected. Unless we can all get 4-gas meters on our watchband this'll be a rough time for situational awareness being enough to cover your six. If anyone has any media on Chemical & Detergent Suicides can you post? I'll do the same.

Sooooo, pulling this trainwreck back on topic.... Does anyone know how I can volunteer, or better, get paid to go help in either LA or TX? Any links or 800 numbers besides the first post? OTF-1 has contacted our county Fire Cheif's Assn. and Ohio is trying to send 400 EMT-Ps. I'm a B and our station can't send an ambulance but my services are availible and I want to know how to help... Seriously help.

I'm taking my in class final for the I85 this coming thursday. Practicals are next tuesday. Then I gotta register for the NREMT exam. I'm glad to hear that there's only the 4 practical stations, those tend to make me psych myself out badly. and if the written is mostly practicality and Basic skills with a bit of ALS thrown in, and knowing the terminology helps, then this one's in the bag. I gotta say though, I don't think the class was nearly long enough. I understand that it's written in the DOT regulation that the class can be no longer than so many hours but c'mon here. With an extra month, I would have time to process this information. Right now I've got it leaking out my ears. maybe that's CSF. But it's like the rookie class for volunteer firefighting. In that 24hour class (max 40 hour) they teach you just enough to kill yourself. Does anyone here agree with me that because of the time restraints in this I-85 class they teach you just enough to kill a patient?

Gotta love those entrapped-morbid-obese, upside down in a rollover, hanging from the seatbelt and stuck under the steering wheel, swearing "I washn't Driiiving Shir!"... I notice too, that there's always something like the aforementioned ghetto stairs, or a tight hallway, or some obstacle or other, to deal with when you've got a big pt. How come it can never never never be a straight beeline from pt's location to back of bus? I have one in my district that truly puts Stryker's 700# limit to the test. Picture that scene of "I Now Pronounce You: Chuck & Larry", you know.. We're lucky enough to have the power-pro cots (thanks workmans comp), and we drain two batteries per run when this pt's involved. We always always call mutual aid in such a case... I've never broken my back but came close on a transport to an optomatrist's office where my pt absoultly had to be in "the chair" and there was no lift assist availible. Next time I'm calling the local FD for assist if this facility won't have a team availible. I try to be smart and lift properly but that sometimes results in a blow-out of the crotch of my duty pants and a good deal of embarassment at the ED upon arrival. And sometimes it's a hard call if the pt at hand is in a condition that I can afford to wait for lift assist. Bottom line..... Situation Dictates Procedure.

I call them our tax dollars hard at work.

I regret not having moved out and experienced the total college package. I stayed home to save money. lame excuse because those who went to live in the dorms are making enough money now to not have to worry about it... just my $0.02.

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Some idiot EMT from our station administered D50 down an ETT tube years ago. Just a story I hear when I start asking diabetic questions to people I haven't already asked. She was fired pdq.