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In my very rural area that I work... for the HEMS crews: we get requested on MORE motorcylce mva's and ATV's..... Cause in the GREAT state of Arkansas they do not have a Helmet law..... Then in Oklahoma......Mva and Cardiac....Cva, they run neck and neck.

HHHmmmmmm now that i have been sitting here for the past 6.5 hours and i realize i have 5.5 hours to go...... I think this is worth trying..........

Thats too cute!!

Now I know all Ya'll where just waiting for me to jump in......... Words of Wisdom... Be fast to think and slow to speak ; so I chewed on this for a while..... As a Dispatcher.. I answer multiple calls from EMS agency's, Hospital ER's, Highway Patrol, Sheriffs Office, Fire, Rescue, Conservation Officers...and YES the GP. (general public) Now. If you call me direct before you call 911 I am just gonna call your local 911 back door number and get you an ambulance, first responders, fire, rescue, sheriff.... what every my interrogation is gonna determine that you may need. YES I AM also gonna get you the closest air craft in route. In my world we work some VERY rural areas and often times my HEMS crews will land in a field or pasture or on the road side before anyone else can arrive on scene. While those resources are in route I am on the line with the caller asking questions and going over my EMD protocols. As a NREMTB and a EMD I can glean enough from the patients condition to give my crew educated patient information over the radio so they know what they are up against. My company ALSO staffs an in house RN. Medlink as we call it. She is the eyes and ears for the med crew while they are flying. She can also take the information I am taking from the patient and help pass information on to the crew. THIS way the crew gets the same effect of being on the phone with the caller yet they are freed up to concentrate on getting SAFELY to the scene. Its called team work. You gotta trust your counterparts that are put into place to follow through for you and you can't Need/want/HAVE to do every thing yourself. As a Certified Flight Communicator I can offer the same assistance to my Pilot, looking out for TFR's, keeping an eye on the weather, documenting and tracking part 91 vs part 135 (FAA requirement) flight following with GPS, fuel every 15 mins via radio contact (another FAA requirement) looking for refuel points, (do you know how to reference a FBO book for JETA vs AVGAS?) It's all about TEAM work and letting your Dispatch center work with you and for you. Trying to be on line with the caller while you are in route to the scene isn't all its cracked up to be-- Brentolie nailed it on that one. How would you handel the 23 year old female that was screaming crying into the phone because she was more worried about the fact that she had just left her 2 small children 3 and under alone at home while she walked down the street to the closest neighbors house to use the phone; due in part to the fact she was 5 months pregnate and having a miscarriage........... Lets not mention that as she stands there on the front porch of the neighbors home with blood pouring down both legs the residence has only MEN available to assist her........OK can we say DISASTER!!!! The men where freakin out more than she was at this point-- AND YOU think you want to talk to them on the phone yourself while your in route L&S trying to get to the scene before she goes in to a full fledged case of shock? Or would you rather let your communicator handel it? Let us instruct them to get her off the cold front porch, lay her down on her left side elevate her pelvis and cover her with a blanket. Would you like to calm this hysterical mother down or would you rather allow you communicator to calm her down by assuring her that you and your partners are sending a deputy over to the local sawmill where her husband works so he can go meet her at the hospital where she is being taken, while another deputy is responding to her mothers house and will take her mother over to be with her children so they won't be alone.... OH yeah you can't do that cause you are just you and your partner is driving and HOW many cell phones and radios do you have at your disposal? hhhmmmmm Team work... They don't call us Communication Specialist for nothing!

2 Lumps of Coal for you buddy!!! And a sliced plug to the fridge so that BEER won't be cold!

Jess! YOU better believe it!!!!!!!! Thats why all the BEST dispatcher are female too.............

it comes in handy-- Use and abuse any time!!

Pt weight for our Cot in the Helicopters is 400 lbs. Bad deal is often times it depends on the weight distribution--- If the pt is a male at 6'2 and 305 sure we can fly him but if it's a female 5'0 at 250...... she is probably not going to fit- her girth would be the reason........

YES I believe in Osmosis...........ya know Knocking some sense into them!!!!

geesh... Do you men ever think about any thing other than Boobs???

New one for me: "Cen Com, we are going to make an unplanned landing due to plumbing difficulties....." In a HELICOPTER!!!!!!!!!!!

Why Yes Yes it is! Comm Specs use it all the time to swat anoying crew members that like to whine..........

Another good read provided by Brentolie.. thank you

Why silly me-- thanks Dwayne!! :love5:

? what happend to the link?

I very much enjoyed the read. Thanks to you both AD and Brentolie.......

Bare in mind you stated they where all drunk morans with cell phones- I think that line speaks for it's self. Is it ok or moral, or right? Well NO! However when in Rome......... The fact that you responded to a Bar I can't say one could expect much else out of a group of drunks that just finished a brawl. Welcome to the cruel side of the world we work in.

Now THAT would be my luck! Just go figure like always a poor inocent unsuspecting woman trying to hold on to her expensive Victoria Secret's and what does she get??!!! Just no fair- Not fair at all.......

Chin up! I bet you did just fine!!

Ouch Ouch Ouch -- this dispatcher IS an EMT-B and I don't work the field, but I am required to keep up my licensure just as any body else would. AND to be very honest I find myself with my nose in a book because I have found if I dont use it I loose it! But do I REALLY need to go on to medic school?

And so the birth of internet shopping began..................

Duck IS oily- I can't handel it! And while not ALL food from the deep south is nasty--- this just isnt normal.... AND HOLY COW $30.00 for only 4lb's?!!! Dang that fried deer tenderlion I had for breakfast was free------neighbors brought it by after they hit it with their truck just the other night. It's only classified as road kill if its COLD when you pick it up...............

From the words Of a friend- She was plus sized and she said she always just went with the men's pants. The reinforced knee is good and the waist is larger and more comfortable on the mens pants. She suggested Gall's, we get the magizines how ever I am sure you can look them up on line........

Congrats on passing!!!