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As a matter of housekeeping, everything has been sold, mostly on eBay. There are a lot of points on both sides about selling the gear, who buys what to make their missions happen, and on and on. Bottom line for me is the folks on here that cautioned others I feel had others best interests in mind, and that is not a bad thing. Of course, being in the position where you have to sell gear for whatever reason is not a great feeling either. Crappy situation, nuff said. One thing I have learned in this process is: Not a lot of people truly understand PTSD, especially other Medics, which is surprising. There is a reason for this- PTSD carries a HUGE stigma, both personally and with co-workers, and those who identify with it tend to be cut off from their main group they worked with before. This takes away the ability of the "non-affected" Medics to learn how it affects their profession. I put quotes around the "non-affected" group, in truth we are all affected in some manner by our job, and PTSD rates for Medics are around 33%. That means that 1 in 3 have strong enough symptoms to be diagnosed with PTSD, the other 66% display some PTSD symptoms. Years ago, in many jurisdictions (Canada included), the high rate of certain cancers and heart attacks among fire fighters were shown to be job related, so a special fund through workers compensation was set up, and when these folks experienced a certain cancer or a heart attack, it was AUTOMATICALLY assumed to be work related, and they were given access to compensation with minimal difficulty. It SHOULD be this way, it NEEDS to be this way... If you develop an occupational injury, the last thing you need is to be cut loose and left to fend for yourself. In Canada, Medics with PTSD often have difficulty with Workers Compensation, the burden of proof rests with the injured medic, who is often in a poor position to put up a fight. GPs don't often understand PTSD, access to Psychiatrists (at least in Canada) is difficult, the public mental health system is NOT geared up to deal with occupational PTSD, it's a bad situation. The solution is to have PTSD recognized by workers compensation as the occupational disease that it is, and build awareness in the GPs to recognize it, then refer those that need help on to the proper resources.

After being married for 40 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Forty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl. Now ... I have a $500,000.00 home, a $35,000.00 car, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 63-year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things." My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV. Aren't older women great? They really know how to solve an old guy's problems.

Did you read any of the rationale and information prior to posting in an old thread???

The nattle is correct; I am so proud (*tear); atrial fibrillation is the only irregular irregular rhythm on the face of the earth (my EEG excluded) I know I'm stating the obvious but atrial fibrillation is caused by multiple ectopic atrial foci whereas atrial flutter is caused by only one ectopic foci Why did I state the obvious you ask? it's not because I like demonstrating my knowledge (seriously, its not) it's because atrial flutter can easily be distinguished if we think of it in terms of where the electrical impulses are coming from; it has polymorphic sawtooth waves (like giant P waves) compared to messed up bizzare fibrillatory waves Atrial flutter is regularly irregular whereas AF is irregularly irregular If you want some of my ECG ebooks you know where to find me (hiding in the corner with a toil foil hat to keep the aliens away and trying to bike lock up my soul because the sermon at church on Sunday was about how Satan wants to steal my soul, wait, does Satan have bolt cutters? poo ... bloody Satan who gave him bolt cutters?) This is atrial fibrillation, notice the polymorphic fibrillatory waves? This is atrial flutter, notice the monomorphic waves?

Hey Bro .. got the scope +++ just now ... and all the gack .. WOW and Nice Patch too ... lol. Sure wish I had that ETCO2 sampler on a call back in Sept .. sure would have made my life easier. cheers

Right. Because tabloid journalism is a reliable source on which to make decisions regarding patient care.

There have been several threads in here where ems folks have stated they would not treat a patient or would not do a procedure because it is "unsafe". Here is an article that shows how ridiculous some of your practices are: http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-ames-lawsuit-121911,0,3813645.story

I apologize for the ignorance of some. My partner and I were Paramedics for many years. I understand the rigors that we as Medics and EMT's and Flight medics face daily. My Partner was a Flight medic and Loved what he did. When he was killed, I had to sell all off his gear because I could not handle having the remainders around. So I say that to say. If a Flight Medic, has gear that they came here to sell, We should be supportive as professionals and not accusatory. My Partner had things that he collected to make his life easier for his job. There were a few items after his death that He had never gotten to use. Brand new and still in the original wrappings. If someone had suggested to me that I had acquired those things nefariously I would have been very distraught. Moral of my story is: Don't be so quick to judge. And good Luck to the individual selling the stuff. I hope you can get some sort of relief. A Concerned Medic