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Ok I own a convertable tablet laptop, it was fantastic for writing my notes on it school, as it was really fast for me to flip back to older notes and so on.

As for the iPad. It has iWork, so the productivity software is there but the input is useless. I hate to say it but it needs a pen. Keep touch screen, keep multi touch, but when it recognizes there is a pen there turn that crap off and listen only to the pen so you can write. Just much easier way of inputing stuff that a touch screen keyboard like the iPhone.

Email sent to PAC wondering how they plan to deal with being left out, and how the plan on staying relevant now that the regulators will apparently be in charge

I find it funny that SCoP is listed in there, and yet they want to pull out of PAC because they dont believe that as a regulating body they have any purpose there shaping new NOCP's. Now look they want to do what exactly?

A small bit of background, the 2007 Grey Cup was our Canadian Football League championship game in which our Saskatchewan RoughRiders beat their Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Too bad they forgot how to count since then.... I seem to remember on my practicum a preceptor threatening to make me push the unit to the next call for being a Stamps fan (i'm from there, or as it is to be known in this thread YYC)

Also from my practicum, I seem to remember Saskatoon's service carrying a wipe that was supposed to take away the burn, i've also heard that yogurt works too (who knew?)

Never had to deal with tazer barbs though, isnt there a tool for pushing in the barbs to make removal much easier?

Its an interesting idea, you'd be able to show the ER docs how bad their lungs were before a neb for example. And the recordings are useful for teaching. I learned ECG's off of real ECG's, why not learn lung sounds from real lung sounds. They may also be able to do some signal processing to remove road noise or even sirens from the background

I sign up to volunteer for GlobalMedic the day I graduate from ACP school. Please donate. They do an amazing job all over the world

We just had the king LT added to our scope for EMT's. Its a wonderful step up from the OPA and BVM. Easy to insert and if it works as advertised it will be great, especially due to the fact that there are times when we have no ALS backup. Now the LT has no suction port, so i dont know what difference that makes on the protection of the airway

I use an Timex Ironman triathalon watch. It has a plastic band that sterilizes easy, has an analog face with a full digital background with 24hr time/date (which can be turned off and can look pretty snazzy) Its served me well so far

I'll add a little bit to this discussion (should be change the name of this topic?) There is no way a brand new EMT should be thrown to emerg calls regardless of where they work (hopefully the senior partner has been there longer than a month)Nor do I believe they should work in a place where black and white TV is the shiz nit. The balance out of a rural service with a small hospital may just be perfect. Transport times range from 2 minutes to 45-1hr, good transfers into a major care center (you learn alot just by opening that big brown envelope and reading) As an EMT I probably would never have dealt with some of the head trauma's I have without ALS, or DKA's and so on. It is also good for the new EMT to learn that sometimes a Paramedic (in school you are kinda taught to worship the ACP) needs OUR backup, yes its usually for a lift or a third hand but it also helps with the whole TRUST issue I have seen mentioned here

Now yes I was excited, I got 6 emerg calls my last tour and I realize that a city service will do 6 calls a day. But its nice to get your BLS treatment dusted off and used as much as possible whether or not its in a city, a town or a hamlet

For the record, even though I live in Saskatchewan, i giggled a little bit when the riders blew the grey cup, just because of all the harassment i received after the stamps were dropped (born and raised in Calgary)

If the new contract states that you are not required to work overtime then why do it? If the government really wanted you to work all that over time wouldn't they have been smart enough to put that into the contract as well? Just saying.....

The Olympics will be an interesting time, we very well may see the government and Vanoc realizing that after one day of the games they truly screwed the pooch on medical staffing come begging to the very people they screwed over.

My girlfriend keeps saying that she wants to move to BC so I can have the mountains (I love to climb) and she gets the ocean, but more and more that is scaring the crap out of me. I am going back to school next year for the specific reason that it makes it alot easier to work in different provinces if i'm an ACP vs a PCP (planned to do it anyway) but things are definitely looking pretty good where I am right now.

All I can say is GOOD LUCK!

Great Post, thank you.

Rest in Peace

I gotta say that the premiere episode was very poorly planned. They killed return viewers with that nonsense. What has come since then has actually improved quite a bit over the premiere. And if it weren't for the sex in the ambulance scene, they probably wouldn't have gotten near as much protest from EMS.

You mean we dont get to have sex in the back? Darn and thats why I got into this profession

No we definitely dont have heart saver tones, just the standard 4 or 5 beeps, then dispatch telling us what to do. MD doesn't even use tones in their rigs.

As for the green light, if it keeps RCMP off my back then i'm all for it, sometimes getting to base in the required 5 minutes is kinda hard with the 9 friggen red lights between me and base (nothing compared to the speeds my partner achieves on the way in)

We were contacted by the Saskatoon Health Region to help with inoculations, we were told we would be sent the 4 hours of pre-reading for the course and we would spend all day their learning and so forth. So at 22:30 the night before the class we were informed that we wouldn't be doing the course, SHR didn't want us any more. So people of Saskatoon and area just remember why the lines are so long.

You never know, aparently we may be getting green lights for our POV when on call in Saskatchewan

What about this "soft wake" system? I'd like to know a little more about that. One i'm running out of clean sheets due to the occasional crap myself moment when tones go off (I have to sleep with my radio on high)

LUCAS

Reglardless of whether or not its better than manual CPR, being able to move a patient through narrow hallways and back gates into the unit without an interruption in CPR, that cant be a bad thing

Buy a LUCAS instead, you get better CPR, and it keeps giving good CPR. Makes your life and your moves a little easier too. An ER in Saskatoon did a ultrasound of a patients ankle (the name of the vein escapes me) and apparently there was very good blood flow with the device

When do you start selling t-shirts?

Sorry Tniuqs after living in Rob Anders riding most of my life I refuse to give the conservative party any of my money at any level (even 10 bucks) I keep my money with the greens because they have yet to screw me over (they will eventually, its politics) and the fact that I like to breath, might be alot of COPD coming down the line for us, but thats another topic

I do have a question though, and this would go to any of the people here, would you sign a letter stating your support for the staff of BCAS, or keep your name anonymous for fear of reprocussions? I have heard talk around here of "conduct unbecomming....'

Move to Saskatchewan? You could probably get a pretty steady job with Canadian Industrial Paramedics here as well if thats the way you want to go

The CPAP machines we will most likely getting will be something like the PortO2Vent, oxygen powered and with a nice simple knob for us lowly EMT's our service doesn't carry CPAP, not yet anyway.

As for what would happen if I give a chest pain (I am smart enough to look at the monitor first) and their pressure plummets, well we do have a unit that still carries PASG

Can I get a patch that says Waaambulnace Driver? or a patch with a flap so I can select Ambulance Driver or Hurse Driver?

I'll admit to not going to the last AGM, but in reality I had just graduated and had no business voting on resolutions which affect an industry I had yet to work it. That being said that last election for members at large and council members I took the time to mail in votes because I knew the people running. I think we are in good hands for atleast the near future. Although i hate my registration fees I understand the purpose behind the huge increase, transparency has so far been pretty good. What the future holds, well I dunno.

Maybe with all the complaining in Alberta, the membership will rise up and vote next year.

And remember we dont want to support BCAS, just the people working for them

The problem with writing his MP is that your votes dont count to him so he wont care. If you write your MP you can express your concern as an EMS provider that BC is setting a dangerous precedent for ambulance services everywhere. Just a thought, other wise i'll sign that letter (as a former Albertan)

Quick Everyone To Your MP Before Your Next!

Why bother with negotiation and mediation when instead you can force legislation instead!

With no actual danger to the public, how are they justifying this act? By the Energy minister going "everyone gave it a good try"? Police and Fire get binding arbitration and EMS gets law makers forcing a new contract, at least until after the games.

This is ridiculous, for once the feds should step in and slap some sense into BC