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I'm currently in my first year of the Emergency Care Technician [ECT (AEMT for Americans I believe)] and I didn't realize the physical demands during PT and such before and after class. Our college (Cape Peninsular University of Technology) has a expedition type thing required for people who wish to do the Rescue elective to participate in. I've chosen to do it as a side option and yesterday was our first official training session for it, my body didn't take it well. xP I've seen on Youtube that the Aussie medic colleges have a fitness routine, but do all medical training centers have fitness focused areas?

The series is great, it's cool seeing them do their work out in Kandahar city. Sad how often the 50cal got bent and they had to pull out the SAW though. Have you seen the Pararescue edition of "Surviving The Cut"?

Hi, my name is Devin, i'm 18 and I reside in Cape town South Africa and this is my second time saying hello on the site. As my profile says, i joined the site in Feb of 2011, At the time I had no first aid knowledge or experiance, and EMS was just a hopeful career wish that I was looking at... A few of the people on here even asked if I was sure about being a Paramedic. Since then I've joined St. John Ambulance, Disaser Risk Management , got my Level 3 certificfate and last week recieved my letter of acceptance to study a 2 year certificate in emergency Care. I can now says that I definitly want to be a paramedic. That brings me back to here, i've been getting the emails and such still, and looking back occasionally, but now I would like to take proper looks around and get to see what I may expect should i get my certificate. tl;dr Being a paramedic looks awesome, soon I should be one too, looking forward to that. ^__^

Becoming a paramedic is something I've wanted to do for a long time, these questions come from what I've learnt from scouts on First Aid and my own basic genera first aid knowledge. Forgot to thank the rest of you for answering my questions. Thank you. btw, is there an edit function on here so that I can edit my above post? I can't seem to find one...

First off, I'm not really sure where to put this, but these are questions that have been nagging at me for a while. 1) You arrive at a multiple car collision, with multiple injured patients, with lots of bleeding, yet you have less gloves than patients. What do you do? Do we keep the same pair of gloves on or try and find an alternative such as a plastic bag? 2) Someone suffers a high collision impact (such as falling down stairs or getting knocked over by a motor vehicle), there is a wound on the patients back, and you would like to seal it, yet you are unsure if the patient has a fractured neck, spine or some serious other bone. 3) Someone suffers a high collision impact (like above), and has a broken rib, he/she is not breathing and you need to perform CPR, will it be safe to do so or will pushing down on the rib do more harm than good? I'm sorry if these questions are trivial, I suppose that I will learn all of this when I go to collage, but currently I am only in Grade 11. On the topic of question 1, I carry a pair of gloves in my bag [never know what could happen {a car barrel rolled in front of the school last year}], so yeah... Always good to be prepared. xD Thanks very much for reading. Devin

Hello all, my name is Devin. I am 16 years old and living in Cape Town, South Africa. I enjoy watching the hell out of sports and hiking with the scouts. I am really interested in becoming a paramedic when I finish school. Right now I am just trying to get a feel of how things are before I leave school. I am trying to acclomplish the first 4 first aid levels by the end of this year (not much i know) and then I should hopefully know a bit more if this career is the one for me. I job shadowed a paramedic for school at a rugby event two years ago ad I enjoyed how it went. I joined this forum to read what others have to say about this career choice and to hopefully learn a bit of knowledge if I cam while I'm here. Thanks for reading. Devn.