knhollenbeck

By law if you have a license you are suppose to stop and help only if thier is not any other first respoder on scene

no not overdone on the drama, everyone gets those wild calls, i have almost been assulted two times in the last month, so no not overdone, The point i am getting to is that no matter what is going on or around you when you are getting ready to tube someone you have to get into a different frame of mind, you have to get into a zone because it takes alot of focus to tube someone, so you might as well practice in different situations so WHEN you are in that situation your like hey i practiced it and i can do it, and yes i deal with alot of the 3am bs calls too, it is all about confidence!!! I think they should have national compitition on tubing people that would be a blast !!!! In order for anyone in our company to be a Sr medic you have to do a whole bunch of stuff, thier is a big check list you have to get checked of on.

ok, i see everyone is getting bent out of shape on my comments, first, i never said education was worthless, you need the education, second, if you have a good expericenced partner it makes all the difference in the world, third arent the basics we were taught not ABC's, airway is the most important thing you can do for a patient, you can do all the cool things like, hook up the 12lead, defib pads, start iv's, but the most single impprtant thing you can do is get an airway established, whether it be a basic airway, combi-tue, or ET tube, you got to have a good airway or the patient dies. Should you tube on the scene? it depends on your patient, do you stay and play, or get to the hospital. Dont move that patient untill you have established an airway, opening up a patients mouth and putting in an oral airway takes 5-10 secs, or suctioning out thier mouth. My training and experiance is that you should practice tubing at different angles, turn up loud music, have a bunch of people around you watch you. Ok and the answer the question about my basics do everything, i let them do things in thier scope of practice, alot of medics think that the basics are thier to drive them to calls and thats it, i try to have my basics get involved in everything, thats how they learn things, my partner now, is a basic and he is the best partner anyone could have, I have learned that I would rather have a damn good basic partner then a half ass medic partner.

ok to the person above me yes education is important, but in the real world, when you go to calls, you have 15 people standing around you, moms screaming to save thier kid, a wife begging you to save her husband, people getting in your face because you took to long to get thier in thier opinion, text books and teachers cant teach you that stuff. Everything becomes first nature, you react to everything and you do it right, and yes if you were trained right by a good partner

8) ok to the response to the person above me about all the education crap he wrote, listen when it comes down to it, put the dang tube in, you are paid to do a job, all the education in the world will not prepare you for the streets, things are a whole lot different, all the book smart people and thier views and opinions are nothing but a bull of crap. The greatest medics and basics come from road experiance, I let all my basics do everything as long as they are doing things right, you only learn by doing

I remember my first intubation, gets me excited everytime I think about it, I always load the patient into the ambulance, then I throw in the tube, The back of your rig is the safest place, but I work in Detroit, so we don't do things on the scene, but in the back of the rig..

Ok everyone needs to stop and think for a second, I work for a private Ambulance company in Detroit, yes we do get alot of calls from people that abuse the system, but you never know when something is going to be a true emergency, you have to treat everything like it is an emergency, if you cant handle that then you need to change jobs. That one time you THINK it is a non-emergency or stupid person with stomach pain and treat it like nothing and the person dies then you give all the rest of us who care about every patient and bad name, go work at Burger King