FireMedic65

i use a dixie cup and a straw 0% btw

With out new statewide protocols effective July 1st. We will also have Ativan Amirodone Zofran Fentanyl cant remember what else

i agree! it's pathetic what we get paid here in the states. my first job as an EMT-B i was getting paid $6/hr

i don't blame you... i know people that work for them. most are great people... but some.. ehhhhhhhhhhh

amen to that.... demand better pay!

i thought we were supposed to help those in pain or sick.... not get humor out of it...

FINALLY, an ambulance that can transport me around! lol.. jk fatass ambulances are nice... but they tend to be more trouble. a local squad here has one... and they get called in a lot for mutual aid. but other wise, i think they are great. sure beats transporting them on the back of a flatbed tow truck (yes... i have done it before)

its funny... but i cant help feel sick to my stomach that people can be so cruel like that

depending on your location where i am... wages will vary from $7.25 to upwards up $11.25 (not counting shift differential or experience pay) a few places will pay you even more if you have experience. i know of places where the emt-b will make more than their emt-p partner. it's not really fair if you ask me... but who am i to complain:)

i sold naked pictures of myself to the local female prison.... i still needed a bank loan

not sure what was more of a waste of time. me clicking the post, or someone photo chopping that pic....

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no offense taken. i tend to read into things a little much. but i do agree with what you were saying. i got scolded because i apparently wasted time doing the 12-lead. when i had it all attached, and analyzed before BLS go there for transport. buuuuut im not ranting now

hey now.... im the one that wanted to do the 12 lead.. and i did do the 12 lead.. i was scolded by someone else later for doing it....

12 leads seem to be a big issue with a lot of people. Some are all for it, others are morally opposed to them. Just the other day, I had a patient (as a student) complaining if chest pain, nursing home gave him 3 nitro, and was on some pain med that i cant remember. He denied difficulty breathing, but he was showing signs of it. Anyway... BLS was having trouble getting out the door, so i plowed in a line, and instead of just standing there with nothing to do, I did a 12 lead. And i got lectured about how poor judgment it was later..... Regardless of what i was told by this preceptor, I was always taught in school, respiratory problems were often associated with cardiac. So, if I have the time, I will get a 12 lead on them.

yea, that was a good one. How he went to the doc's house posing as a UPS guy or something and had the package strapped to his ass

There are several Family Guy clips related to medicine. My favorite is when people was a Dr... and he wad defib'ing someone.. and they came back.. but he kept on going and shocked him again.... it was pretty funny. But the best is the real doc who makes all the comments that sound really bad for the patient, but arent related to the pt at all. funny stuff

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i should have been more specific and explained what I meant better. i was merely trying to get the point across that rectal temps are all but useless in the pre-hospital setting

I do not see a real big reason to do a rectal temp on a patient in the pre-hospital setting. Maybe on a neonate or something. But lets say for instance, you are 90 miles from a hospital, someone falls into a lake in the middle of winter... rescue gets them out, yadda yadda yadda.... a helicopter cant fly because A Christmas Story marathon is on... so you are on your own. Well... ya need to warm them up... I don't really care what their temp is.... just warm them up properly. If allowed, dual IV warm saline, throw in a foley flush around some warm saline there, etc etc. I can't really thing of any situation where you would have to use a rectal therometer. Their jaw is clamped down... trauama to the ears... who cares about a temp? Like others had said, your treatment won't change if you have their temp or not really. A temp will give you a better idea of what is going on, but you can't do the proper tests to pinpoint what is exactly going on. Yet still, treatment won't change!

i didn't watch long enough to notice:)

i couldn't bring myself to watching more that 10 seconds of that rubbish, ill stick to alcohol if i want to abuse my brain

i have seen this done once before. medic couldnt not establish an IV. told the pt to drink the D50. no idea why he didnt administer glucagon.... this was a few years ago, and i didnt know any better. but apparently it worked. should have asked how it tasted

just to be a stinker, i have too seen something very similar to this, although my patient was not stable, and whatever the it was, it broke before we got to the ER. But from what i remember, it was a sinus tach with BBB, rate in the 130s, pt complaining of severe crushing chest pain, radiating to jaw and shoulder with weakness in the hand, bp was crap over nothing (62/p) etc etc... anyway, it was a classing text book sinus tach, except for the mysterious P wave, everything fell into normal parameters for it so be sinus, except, there was an INVERTED P wave .08mm preceding another up right p wave, followed by the QRS. The P waves appeared to be similar in shape. 12 lead showed a lateral wall stemi bout 3mm off baseline. i have the strip somewhere, ill have to dig it up for you all to see.

i got bored at 86