WendyT

When is a true emergency, a true emergency. The man who is drunk falls down and just lays there, so someone calls 911, who comes, both the guys in ems and the police. The police take the drunk, and you guys dont get paid for that call. Someone fainted, but their fine now, it's not a true emergency,but you got called for it, it's not a call you can work, a true chest thumping, adrenalin raging feeling you get when you get there. If someone sprained their ankle or broke it and they are miles from home and or vehicle, should they be calling an ambulance? See I would like to know this, so when a true actually emergency arises and not some small pity, that I dont make a fool out of myself for just calling. Do you get what I am saying, do you understand, if you dont PM me please so we can set the record straight.

That's what they had on this site, the link to the site does not work anymore, it was a bitch trying to get it to work on here without the page flipping back to error. I guess what their thoughts were on this incase of the event and NO bushy it wasnt to get attention. Maybe its a good way to know up front, if you remember the Medic-tag that took a USB port to use, it has all your information on it when the medics come, ok maybe in the future with more gagetry. Maybe someone's idea was a great one, just to early to tell. It would be good for a transfer or a laugh, either one works best. And courageheart I am not posting nonsense epicult (fail to see the point). Is that because your to highly intelligent to see below the concept? If you want to contact someone, please contact Mike Plato Public Contact Information: Mike Plato, EMT-P Public Education Officer Calgary EMS Public Email Contact: mike.plato@calgary.ca

Does your EMS system have anything like this, so when you call 911 for someone in your family regarding anaphylaxis and you say: Jane Doe of this address has this and she is in your system, then they can look it up. REGISTRATION FORM If you are serviced by the Calgary EMS and want to register as having anaphylaxis, send the following information: Name _________________________________________________ Home address __________________________________________ Home phone number _________________ Date of birth _______________________ Medical problem Anaphylaxis NOTE: The registration is based on your ADDRESS. If you MOVE, please notify the EMS Department of the change!! and mail to: Public Education Officer Calgary EMS Department

Here's the case regardless of what the issue is, if he died and there's no dnr signed do we really have the the right to touch him. That's why I am confused, one of you says one thing then the other person says something else. Depending where you are I guess it would matter and if my partner said he's going do cpr then I'm with him.

I posted that one, did you have trouble finding it?

At first the women adored Dust, now he's married, his wife will have all the say about everything. Oh yeah the Calgary Stampeders kicked butt tonight (Sept 15th 2007) against Sask Rough Riders. What's the score, I dont know, not sure but I saw some very sad looking faces wearing green. :roll:

I'm so glad that if I should ever come across you in a situation like that, I'm running for the hills and I hope you can run, cause I can run faster than you. Kinda like pin the tail on the donkey, but he's getting away on you and he's crazed out on mac. :roll:

It's a tough world out there, my nephew took a H2S course and got 96%, well that's great. His EMR course will be paid for, my discussion is; he's a past drug addict and alcoholic; if he were to pursue the next step and doesnt mention about his past, are there ways of finding out? Now for the second income in this day and age is a very good idea to pursue, because from what I've heard that some of you blokes down there dont get paid all that much and some are vollys. And if your fortunate like Dust and Ak to be in the service of a lifetime, then you have a pension coming when and if you retire. Do green stamps still exist and how much are they worth to actually make a living off of them. Oh yeah are you rich, do they pay you well enough to get by each month, some of you are and most of you are barely living by. Why do FF's get the glory because half of them are first rsponders and thats all they will ever do, then there are EMT/FF and Medic/FF. Oh yeah their out there, it just so happens the FF part sticks out more than their other stigma does. :roll:

either which way, I would do the exact thing, to actually have the balls, some women prefer. I know some men dont like a women in the firehose department, it's a man's job. I read not to long ago, that if a woman can be a nun, why cant men? Hey Dust how would you look in a habit, how's those legs of yours? lol

It's under GAMES, which is 7th from the right of you. Click on it and have a ball. ;-)

The retirement age of a County guard is 55 and from there work a desk, and most of them just retire and do something else. I knew 2 people who are now retired, one from being injured on the job and the other just regular retirement. Jack Campbell lives in Mailbu and worked Santa Monica and Brian worked Zuma. My favorite show back then was Emergency, 240 Robert, St. Elsewhere and Dougie Houser. I've been to Catalina and fell in love with it, went to Wrigley memorial, drove a golf cart, met some really nice people and a lady and her dog. Found shards of glass that the ocean wore down. It was a really interesting boat ride over from San Pedro and reading that the Sheriff's vehicle consists of a golf cart, WOW and how many criminals do you think they have, seems they pretty much know everyone, so I guess 0? Here's the thing Dust, it's like this . . . .you can look but you gotta make it look like your looking at something else, and or you can look but you cant touch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzkEsSHOxQU There's one in there who by now needs a medic, keep watching.

Loves sirens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdpYgX4f7Q

Catalina Island's Baywatch Sherri Walker Cline Say “Baywatch” anywhere in the world and images come to mind of bathing-suited beauties bouncing down the beach, beautiful boys in buff boats racing through the surf and wide sandy beaches patrolled by lifeguards who stepped out of modeling catalogues. It doesn’t matter what language you’re speaking, thanks to the television show, Baywatch needs no translation in hundreds of dialects around the world. This American export familiarized Japanese, Germans, South Africans and the rest of the world with the idealized Southern California lifeguards portrayed in the long-running television show. Perhaps the only place in the world where “Baywatch” means something else is Catalina Island. Say “Baywatch” here and something much different, but much more important comes to mind. Baywatch Avalon and Baywatch Isthmus are our rescuers, our paramedics and our first line of defense against everything from bee stings to heart attacks and from dive accidents to lost hikers. Those life-saving jobs are completed by eight full-time fully trained paramedics. Like their mainland counterparts – and the characters portrayed in the show – these men are employed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which operates the county-wide beach lifeguard program. Unlike their mainland counterparts, however, the Island’s Baywatch team has much more extensive training. Each of the team members are fully-trained paramedics, a job designation that requires six months more training than the emergency medical technicians that work for Baywatch on the mainland. That added training, which most team members paid for out of pocket, includes three months in the classroom, one month in a hospital and two months on-the-job training with a paramedic unit. In the field, a paramedic designation gives the Baywatch team a better chance of saving a life. Not only can they start intravenous lines and give medications, they can interpret the EKG of a patient having heart trouble and, if need be, they can intubate a patient who’s fighting for breath. Their education doesn’t stop with paramedic training, however. Baywatch personnel have also been schooled in marine fire-fighting, cliff rescue and high-angle rescue. All Baywatch lifeguards are scuba certified, but each of the Island-based Baywatch paramedics are also part of the Los Angeles County underwater rescue recovery team and regularly take part in underwater searches for lost divers. “We like to work here because we like being paramedics,” said Baywatch Captain Steve Troegger. “We like that there’s more to the job here than on the mainland.” Nearly all of the Baywatch paramedics live on the Island full time, with the four team members of Baywatch Avalon living in the city and the four Baywatch Isthmus paramedics living in the small community of Two Harbors. That’s also something that sets them apart from their mainland counterparts; only on the Island does Baywatch respond around the clock. The eight Catalina Baywatch paramedics provide coverage year round, with two paramedics on duty at each end of the Island at all times. Those two-man teams are composed of a senior man, the Baywatch Captain, and an Ocean Lifeguard paramedic. Each team works 24 hours, with the first team on shift from Sunday through Tuesday and the second team working Thursday to Saturday; Wednesdays are alternated between the two. During the day, the team works in the field, either at their office or on their rescue boat. At night, they return to their homes, responding via dispatch to 911 calls. Those 911 calls cover a wide variety of incidents. In Avalon, the paramedics work side-by-side with the Avalon Fire Department, which does not have its own paramedics. “We work well together,” Troegger, who has been with Baywatch on the Island since 1985, said. “We train together regularly.” Because Baywatch Avalon functions as the city’s paramedic unit, most of their calls are based on the land. Bee stings, broken bones and accidents are regular calls, as are heart attacks and strokes from Avalon’s older residents and visitors. Baywatch Avalon also works with the Avalon Harbor Patrol, responding to water-based calls within the city’s jurisdiction. The popularity of Avalon’s Casino Dive Park means that dive-related calls are common, with Baywatch and the harbor patrol seldom knowing how severe the call is until they arrive on scene. A panicked diver with a lost dive buddy may find that his lost partner just went to the rest room or a fatigued diver may have decompression sickness requiring a high-speed trip to the Island’s decompression chamber, which is located 45 minutes away near Two Harbors. If a call comes in about a boat in trouble outside of the city’s waters, one or the other of the Baywatch teams will respond as far away as the middle of the channel or nearly out to San Clemente Island. The two Baywatch teams divide the Island in half, with Baywatch Isthmus responding to all calls between Twin Rocks and Ben Weston beach and Baywatch Avalon covering the rest of the Island. Both teams respond together to major incidents, such as a plane crash or a lost hiker requiring search and rescue. Whether on land or sea, the Baywatch teams have several resources to use. On land, a fully-equipped four-wheel drive pick-up truck, painted bright yellow, gets them, and their wide variety of life-saving equipment, where they need to go. On the water, both teams have a 32-foot rescue boat to rely on. That vessel, which is powered by two 300-horsepower Cummings diesel engines, can reach speeds of 30 knots and is well-equipped for saving lives as well as marine fire fighting. Both boats have hand-held hoses and fixed bow nozzles. Together the two nozzles can drench a fire with about 1,000 gallons of seawater per minute. The vessels are also equipped with de-watering pumps and other salvage equipment to help save a sinking boat. Baywatch crew members spend part of their time on duty maintaining those boats, duties include oil changes, trouble-shooting mechanical maladies, cleaning the bottoms and painting above the waterline. Once a year, each of the boats are taken to the mainland for a complete check-up. Both the boats and the trucks get plenty of double takes on both ends of the Island, but it’s the office on Avalon’s green Pleasure Pier that gets the most interest. With its prominent location and large “Los Angeles County Baywatch” sign, Island visitors seem to be expecting something different, according to Troegger. “People walk by and look up, it’s like they expect to see David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.”

If there was NO valid DNR, I wouldnt touch him or transported him till you had one in your hand, families should have this on the table before you do anything. What happened if he died enroute to the place he was supposed to go. Negligence seems harshly but you could of done something to him and that family could of sued, regardless of what was wrong with him.

This is really bad, careful Stone Phillips could be behind this, you know from catching older guys wanting to have sex with young girls on internet chat and then luring them to somebody's house, preferably the young maiden in question, you never know.

Actually Aaron, you didnt make any typo's, people cant read between the lines. As for the dead girl, she died on contact, that's really sad and such a young age too. WITHOUT PREJUDICE: I dont know if it's me or not but I think you guys get a little hyper, Ya need to calm down and BREATHE, paper bags work best. :wink:

The electrical equipment used and tone generators used in most(90%) of radio equipment supplies a "pre" tone emission before actual tone generation occurs. says beagle189 My cell phone just has to sit in front of the pc, it makes really funny noises and you know the phone is going to ring. medicrufus which wendy?

"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the Movie: Delta Force, if you seen the movie, then you know what I'm talking about and the above statement means something to you. ROFLMAO

Ok so it's not Christmas yet, but we need to work on getting ready, buy gifts early and we also need a chuckle to see us through. Enjoy, it's just a reminder!! The Twelve Days of Cristmas EMS Style... On the First day of Christmas, my Dispatcher gave to me... Grandma who fell and hurt her knee... On the Second Day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me... 2 MG of Narcan for the out of work person who wants to end it all by taking her Husband's pain pills and won't tell me what she took and is feeling suicidal.... and grandma who fell and hurt her knee. On the Third day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me.... Three stacked shocks for the 88 year old man who instead of paying the neighbor kid 5 bucks to shovel his driveway, decided to do it himself and have the big one in the driveway... 2 Mg of Narcan for the psycho chick trying to off herself... and grandma who fell and hurt her knee.. On the Fourth day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me.... 4 AM in the morning I have to go to the nursing home because someone has had the flu for like 16 years and all of a sudden needs to go to the hospital.... NOW,... Three Stacked shocks for the full arrested popsicle, 2 MG of Narcan for Morphine eating Momma... and Grandma who fell and hurt her knee.... On the Fifth day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me... Five minutes to eat..... 4 AM shuttle call, Three stacked shocks, 2 MG of Narcan, and Grandma who fell and hurt her knee.... On the Sixth Day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me.... Six run reports behind because the computer guy can't fix the system... Five Minutes to eat!!!!!!!!! ! 4 AM Shuttle, 3 zaps to the chest, gonna have a stomach pumped, and grandma who fell and hurt her knee... On the Seventh day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me...Seven car pile up while everyone was trying to beat the light so they can get into Wal Mart the day after Thanksgiving thinking there is only 4 dancing Elmo Dolls... six reports behind... Five minutes to eat....... 4AM is way to early, 3 stacked shocks, 2 of Narcan Pushed, and grandma who fell and hurt her knee.... On the Eighth day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me....Eight flights of steps to walk up to get the 400 pound person who is having shortness of breath since LAST Christmas and can't walk...oh, and of course, the elevator doesn't work... 7 cars a crunching, six reports a writing, Five minutes to eat. 4 AM shuttle, CPR in progress, 2 MG of Narcan, and grandma who fell and hurt her knee... On the ninth day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me Nine blankets needed to cover up grandpa because he is freezing and we aren't even out of the house yet but thinks he will get pneumonia and die for all of the 10 seconds we are outside... Eight flights of stairs, should have stayed home and bought it off of Ebay, six reports I'm writing... Five minutes to eat..... What the Hell time is it, should have paid the kid, 2MG of Narcan, and grandma who fell and hurt her knee. On the Tenth Day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me... Ten Minutes till I can get a bed in the ER because the nurses are busy figuring out who is going to lunch next.... Nine blankets needed, Hope fire department is coming, 7 cars a crunching, six reports I need to write, Five minutes to eat... Can't you wait till morning, stick a fork in him, he's done, Man I hope she shuts up... and grandma who fell and hurt her knee. On the Eleventh day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me.... Eleven times I tried to get the heat to work in the back of the truck and maintainence won't take the truck in... ten minutes waiting, Nine blankets needed, eight flights of steps to climb, Hope you have Progressive, Give me a new ink pen... Five minutes to eat.... 4 AM is early, 3 Leads all show he's dead, 2 MG won't touch her.. and grandma who fell and hurt her knee... On the Twelth day of Christmas, my dispatcher gave to me... a 12 Gague IV needle that I put into the drunk 19 year old who tried to swing at me... it's really freezing, Hope you choke on your sandwich, 9 blankets for grandpa, How did you get up here in the first place, man your husband is gonna be pissed, six reports STILL down... five minutes to eat... Better than taking them back, Hope I recorded the code, Man, just pass out already... and grandma who fell and hit her knee...