Just Plain Ruff

It's only liability if he's using it on someone else other than him or his family.

"I am going to buy one for my home emergency kit. ( you never know, love thy neighbor and etc " Your home emergency kit is for YOU and your family. It's not for your neighbors or your home emergency kit becomes nothing more than a neighborhood emergency kit. I have a home emergency kit, it's set up to be able to treat my family and extended family if need arises. That family includes myself, my wife, my 3 kids and my dog. My extended family includes my parents and my wifes parents and no-one else. Each other extended family member has their own emergency kit. I am NOT about to provide any of my emergency supplies to a neighbor or stranger in a disaster situation because the stuff I use on those people takes one more thing away from my family in that disaster and that's just not going to happen. Now if I (or you for extension) feel altruistic and want to set up a 2nd emergency kit for "others" then by all means do that but the family emergency kit is for family only. And trust me, once people know you are an EMT and you have an emergency kit, they will be banging on your door wanting help. Best you keep your emergency kit hidden until needed or you will find that it will likely be taken by someone stronger and better armed than you.

But in all seriousness, just go to your boss, tell him that you are purchasing one for personal use and ask him if you could fill it. Im sure you aren't going to be emptying it very often right? If you fill it more than once a year, then he might get suspicious that you are providing oxygen to people who you should not be giving oxygen to. And how often will you be using the personal oxygen tank and how often are you faced with the need to use it?

Why not use your skewed sense of ethics and just have it filled at the EMS Service you work for, I mean since cheating is ok in your book wouldn't it be ok for you to just fill it at your company?

Damn, so you have the ability to affect change from within which you probably ought to before someone catches hepatitis or HIV or some other nasty. I see you being the one to do it.

Screw em Kaisu, we've talked about this type of crap before. Any time a valuable and smart provider threatens lesser providers, that smarter provider becomes a target and have to be removed. IT's the nature of the game. Most of the time that smarter provider ends up at a service that truly wants that provider but it may take several attempts to find the right service. Sadly to say, many of those smart providers just languish out there in negativity land and they suffer until they just say F it and get lazy and don't care anymore. I mean why should they care anymore when no-one else does.

yeah, try to backboard and collar a terribly kyphotic elderly patient, that works wonders for the patient. Those patients are truly poster children for re-evaluation of boarding and collaring. Just how the hell do you board patients like that without causing more damage to them? I also refused to collar and board them as well. at least my docs I worked understood my rationale on why I didn't and supported me.

Call EMS she needs a continuous benadryl infusion to counteract the oxygen reaction I had a patient tell me they were allergic to Ketorolac but they could take Toradol. Another told me all they could take was Dilaupid for pain.

You have to be talking about maybe St Johns?????? Or Cox??? Or could it be Rolla EMS?

ok, you already know this information, why not go for some other discipline that you don't know so you at least learn something. LIke interviewing a PA or a MD> And you should be doing this interview in person rather than off an anonymous internet site. If you transport patients to a hospital why not just grab a nurse and ask them those questions at the hospital if they aren't busy.

Well holy hell batman. that is not the news we wanted to hear.

Me thinks, Chris has just completed a significant chapter in his schooling and wanted to share his knowledge with us. I for one am pleased that he feels it important enough to share this with us. I had an instructor named Bob Page out of Springfield Mo who was nearly as smart as Chris. In his refreshers he would throw us some of the most off the wall scenarios that would make us think and usually make us all look like idiots because we'd all go away from the scenarios saying WTF???? and the only one looking smart was him. Not saying Chris is like that but his knowledge base is so vast and I'm glad he's sharing it with us. I for one would considered the altered LOC as a possible 2nd medication ingestion rather than a side effect of the beta blocker. Now I'm edumacated and feel better for it today.

Yes true true true Island, You have to be willing to accept the consequences of your actions. His consequences were getting sued and then fired. I personally think she's playing the victim card but that's just me. If he was willing to post it he should accept the results. I'll bet he was basking in all the pithy comments that he received from all his friends but I wonder if all those so called friends are supporting him now???

OK looking at the shirt/gown does indeed look more like a shirt but who knows where the picture was taken but if it was taken in a hospital that's just bad form. I mean all he had to do was go down to his local walmart or local grocery store and snap a couple of pictures and post them. Walmart is a treasure trove of picture taking nirvana. I dont' really give a shit whether he gets fired or not, I think he made a stupid mistake and he's surely paying for it. What concerns me more is the last sentence of the story is that he's also been accused of racist tweets. But all in all, he only got fired because she's suing the department, the city and him.

I absolutely agree that if he took this on the job that it was not cool. I also think that hospitals are totally off limits for photos of any sorts. There is just too much of a chance for you to get a patient in your photo. The wheelchair and the person are obviously in a hospital, she's in a gown and the wheelchair has a oxygen bottle on it. That is what makes taking the photo wrong. but seriously, she's not even as fat as some of those who would normally fill that type of wheelchair. If he did it on the job, then he should have been disciplined. I'll bet he didn't get fired until the lawsuit was filed though. And apparantly if this photo is not enough, he's also accused of racial tweets as well.

You know, I tend to say that PC is just that Crap. So he shouldn't have posted it but seriously, this lady is just milking this "shame and defeat thing" to it's utter end. I'm betting that none of her friends saw his picture. I don't really feel sorry for her. I think she's just playing the victim. I have to go get some tissues. I do feel sorry for the guy, he did get fired. I'll bet he doesn't post anything like this again though.

First JWiley doing searches and research on why Sodium Bicarb might not be a great idea and now this!!!!! What the hell have we come to in EMS? Good to have you here M3L (I hope that's an L). There are some very very smart cookies here on this site (myself not one of them) and they will surely point you in the right direction.

Don't raspberry bushes have thorns? Are we sure she was stung by a bee and not stung by a thorn?

Well in Dixon Mo there might be more than one Empire in play Island.

If any service tells you that they are using the old non-safety needles as a cost saving mechanism they are full of shit. The cost savings from one infection from a needlestick that could have been prevented by using a safety needle would more than offset the savings they are getting from using non-safety needles. And if one of their employees needs a liver transplant due to hepatitis C infection or long term antibiotic care, the cost savings don't even compare.

was it an epi pen for sure? Could the epi pen have been a pharmaceutical mistake and a different drug be in the pen? Could the epi pen have caused her heart to run so fast that she arrested, maybe a underlying heart condition that causes her to go into arrest?

your service isn't still using the needles that aren't safety needles are you?

febrile seizure? Or just caused by infection hitting his brain?

Maybe XYZ's area's First pediatric ambulance. Childrens Mercy Hospital operates at least 3 peds ambulances. Only used for transports though, no emergency responses. I would think that having a single ped ambulance in a city would make for a very difficult job for responding to emergencies. I would think that the "worlds first" title was a bit of journalistic license.

When I hovered over your link to EMS World, I got this webpage http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141043011025&catId=58058&item=141043011025 I think Digilink went crazy (that's the service that puts in the links or websites that are linked to your link). Go for the mental health in EMS, suggested pieces to include burn out injuries and getting back into work after a significant injury eating right and keeping healthy Loss of co-workers and stress involved The stress of seeing people in all states of health. we see people from healthy to horribly sick and injured. That eats away at your mental health over time Injured kids PTSD and options to treat The list is endless.