Boolancedriver911

AMR sucks, tries to take over EMS everywhere they go.......they failed in PA....

Your eagerness to cut off clothing which you find trivial because of your intolerance of a certain group of people is disturbing. I have never had to cut off clothing on non critical patients, and kids at a concert are probably not critical patients. Have you never gone through a phase as a teenager? This can be seen as willful distraction of property which is a crime. You have betrayed the trust given to you as an EMS provider to do only what is right for your patients. Looks like once again flashlights, badges, lights and sirens and uniforms have attracted the wrong type of people to EMS who bring the wrong attitude to the job.

Wendy, plus one for a great post.

Your a real winner...........and to support wendy....please....

This has been happening quite often to people.....

I was always taught that EMS workers or nurses were not allowed to diagnose.

..Are my eyes playing tricks on me, I thought I saw GOD of EMS apologize....someone pinch me, I think im dreaming......

We should do away with medics, that would solve it all....

So, if we get a rid of EMT's, who saves the medics????

I guess so... the idea here is that complacency breeds an environment that hurts all the good people to the point of forcing them away from what I consider to be an honorable and upstanding job & profession. First on shouldn't be first to wait... I gave oral glucose to a patient who had a BS of 27 by a family members Accucheck, pt meets the criteria... the Engine is waiting for the Squad... why? I did my job AVPU V/S ABC's O2 & Gluc... medics get a BS of 58... push D50 = b/s 157 package and were gone...

How many of my "peers" would wait... along with the 5 EMT/FF from the engine and watch the coma?

Here's a modified statement from the PHTLS book I provide to all my "new Hire trainees":

Our patients did not choose us. Rather, they present to us because of some traumatic occurrence that has resulted in injury or illness requiring our assistance. We, however, have chosen to treat them. We could have chosen another profession, but we did not. We have accepted the responsibility for patient care in some of the worst situations: when patients are at their most stressed and anxious, when we are tired or cold, when it is rainy and dark, and often when conditions are unpredictable. We must either accept this responsibility or surrender it. We must give our patients the very best care that we can – not with unchecked equipment, not with incomplete supplies, not with yesterday's knowledge, and not with indifference. We cannot know what medical information is current, and we cannot claim to be ready to care for our patients, without reading and learning each day. At the end of each run, we should feel that the patient received nothing short of our very best. (NAEMT PHTL 6th Ed.)

Ok, now you make sense.....that is dumb to stand there and wait, but seems like that is what happens alot of the times. BLS protocols differ from state to state, unfortunately.

Will the REAL slim shady please stand up.........

Oh great, just what we need another tool bag on EMT city....

So, who got the blood sugar the medic or EMT? O wait, thats another thread...

Well you know the old term....

"paramedics save lives, EMT's save Paramedics"

Give him a dozen donuts! lol

PD should not have that so, thats the same with fire scenes.... seen them get burned before.

As long as they are conscious, alert and oriented to all appropriate questions, the they can refuse,, right??

Treat for shock and wait. If hes stable now, keep him that way.

I have to agree with you. Not an easy scenario though.