mrt2113

Yea tey probably till ride around in the old hearses with the engine driven sirens lol

You live in louisville? Where abouts do you live? I'm from there and my grandparents live there now.

We do not turn on lights and sirens at an intersection to "help" an ambulance get through, I tried it once and screwed evryone up costing the other ambulence 30 seconds and life threataning manuvers, however if i am pulling out of the hospital(ours is located on the street to) and another rig is coming i will stop oncoming traffic as the rest of our crew will do for us. We have had our PD do this a few times for me and they are quite good at it

In my service we don't fly much because our ER is five minutes or so away at any time. And we have two level 1 trauma centers about 20 mins away when I'm driving and a level 2 about 10 or so. We have had to fly peds out though because the ped center is a good 45 mins from here.

I agree thats what I meant if i tried to leave i would have to work get fed up an come back hours later

I couldn't quit if I wanted to.

Ok if the patient ever needs out that bad chances are the glass is either alread broken or FD is on scene extricating. If I were ever in a real pinch yes I would break the glass but for the most part glass is either broken or FD is there. You cant tell me your FD isnt either on scene before u get there or seconds after you. In every volly,paid,or other service I've been in they havent been more than a minute out in almost any situation.

For an MVA here fire rescue always responds and this is a paid service. It doesn't take them more than a couple of minutes to get the equipment running and begin extrication. Ussually by the the time we roll up to the scene fire is already there extricating. And I didn't mean the alwas remove the roof of the car. They do the safest fastest way to get the t out.

In this case our fire would take the roof right off the car witrh the jaws of life.

you don't know how much I agree with that. Most of the time when I show up to an accident the glass is already broken or the door is unlocked and openable because the person is still concious. I've broken glass a whole one time, to get intoa car where some idiot left his keys inside and had to get in (me). It cost me about 300 dollars to get that window fixed too. Any other time I leave it up to FD to do it. They ussually turn the car into a convertible in about 30 seconds flat. Rollovers=alreadybroken glass everything else= FD or doors unlocked or person in the car opens the door. hoe many of you actually think it is critical to break that window. anyother crash= FD or unlocked doors

My policy when I roll up to a scene with other ems I turn on my rear ambers and the front in grill lights and the directional arrows. If it is just our rig on a side street or other street with little to no traffic I may turn just the directional arrows and thats it. On a main thuroghfare by myself(almost neever happens) I'll leave the lights on but I try to keep it to a minumum. When my partner drives he hops off the rig and leaves everything else on, and he sometimes forgets to turn off the sirens and I have o run back to the rig and do wasting time.

I don't know what to say about this situation. Open fraction, bleeding like hell, I probabl would have pushed the drugs myself and had the EMT continue what i was doing. What was the medic doing that was so important that he couldn't push the drug. Controlling the bleeding or closing rhe wound, both the EMT could have done. There are alot of unknowns here. From what I know now I would have pushed it myself and had the EMT continue what I was doing just to keep both of our asses safe. Why do I care I ride with another medic anyway, but thats what I would have done. MRT

First of all, wikipedia is the most unreliable source you will ever use. Anyone can put anything there... and i mean anything I don't know about the other site but I don't identify myself as a medic unless there was an emergency on the plane. I fly between 20 and 30 times a year and the worst I have seen as someone said before a diabetic who needed a cup of orange juice to a little kit crying because he had a paper cut and in both instances I kept watching my movie.

I had a call like this a year or two ago. The paramedic I was with had an ingenious idea for a cpr mask for a dog. He took a water bottle and cut the bottom off and slid the top half over the snout. Then he took the cap off and provided respirations that way. Compressions are preformed behind front leg.

Yeah in there new show saved. They get the call from dispatch in one rig,show up at the scene in another, and get to the ER in another, its funny to watch. They argue with the cops for 10 minutes on a critical patient before pputting him in the rig.