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I am quite confused at the thought that we need to with hold o2 to certain pt. I am not understanding this. i just spent over a week in Icu and then pcu on 02. As i see it i would not have been given o2 as far as your numbers and quotes. NO WAY !I can not go along with this. I make myself aware of all the different studies out there to with holding o2 will benfit a pt. The AHA study and even the long studing from the Red Cross never give any reason. On a personal level of needing the o2, i needed it and maybe just maybe the fancy machines said everything looks fine, but i couldn't breath. With all the machines saying no o2, they trusted the pt and how it made you feel. My biggest problem with all this is numbers rulling the pt not what the pt says that's living this. Listen to what your pt is saying not the book!! LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN to your pt!!!!

i am from nj and my ems squad also is with the fire dept. i can send you both if you'd like, my state emt patch and my fire co patch were we run out of if you'd like. let me know.

so wrong it doesnt happen at my station nor the other stations that we hang with and that ive asked. they all txt'd nope.

we have given up soo many rights of ours as it stands, everyone trying to force their way of thinking or do or dont do. all in the name of safety for us were your bike helmet, wear your seatbelt dont talk on the phone. when does it stop in 22 some years i have watched and not willingly so given up or taken more schools all so someone can feel in control. and where i ask does it stop? now to even what can be watched at the station? if you dont like it the station is a big place to go and get lost. get some reports done, read,hang upside down who cares just dont force what you view as unprofessional on everyone else in the name of being professional. do you really think that when you walk into that persons house having a heart attack that they care what you were just watching to make you worth treating them? and no im not for porn or any such thing but when youre on duty thats your house thats where you stay, eat, sleep, so why not watch what everyone wants or close to it and you can find something to do till its done.

we here in nj caring those masks that weren shown at the end there. and believe it or not we have saved a good amout of aminals. who sits up at night and thinks of those things i dont know but.......... just thought id add my 2 cents. :roll:

we had the same problem when i came on board. i called the guys in charge of those chairs and explained my problem. they brought the chair for my squad to use for a month. that was good enough for us to figure out what chair best suited us and the styker won hands down. the way the chair works from the treads, to the way the back goes up and down for us moving the pt to saving your back with all the saftety aspects on the chair. the colored straps in the middled of the night something( so simple ) its worth every dime the straps( being colored coded.) i really think the skyker is worth every penny. good luck!

when we started 20yrs ago using helo's they came across the river to us and turned the rotatores off but now we use both nj state and pa helo's. they both have their way of doing things, depending on the update of the call also. it has always depended on the pilot. so we prepare for it both on every on our drills we hold. we would hold them twice a yr we have the helo down to drill with us hot and cold so we would stay updated and the newiebs would get updated too and not be scared around it.