paramedicmike

Welcome.

Spock,

Nice to see you're still here and contributing to the discussions.  Did your research look at negative outcomes associated with LSB usage?  How about any change in the frequency of those outcomes associated with reduced usage?

Hope your defense went well... or goes well if you haven't done it yet.

Here's the story.

Please be careful out there.

Best wishes for the recovery of the medic injured.

Welcome.

Welcome.

"Content unavailable outside of Canada."  So I tried using a VPN.  The website crashed my browser twice.

If I could +10 Paramatt's response I would.  Sadly, I can't.  I'll just have to echo his comments and request more information.

45 minutes ago, Just Plain Ruff said:

Nah, Mike doesn't know Poop from Shinola.  

NSFW warning: Questionable language.

Not to detract from the importance of pediatric safety in transport ambulances perhaps we should backup a little further and start with general safety in ambulance transports.  I'm not discounting the importance of keeping kids safe while in our care.  However, let's be honest.  Ambulances aren't really the safest vehicles out there.  What do we need to do to keep *us* safe in an ambulance?  Then how does that translate into keeping kids safe.

If we start by looking at pediatric transport safety based on our current platforms we're really starting behind the proverbial eight ball.  Start by improving ambulance safety in general and you're half way there to improving pediatric safety.

15 minutes ago, medicgirl05 said:

 

I also was told that if a child was in a wreck and you didn't take the child out of their car seat you could transport them in it, but if they were removed from it then the car seat couldn't be used. 

Was there any logic offered for this?  On its face it doesn't make much sense.

My last ground job had a "child car seat" on every ambulance.  We kept it tucked in the external oxygen cabinet until we needed it.  I never had need to use it.  If we needed it we strapped it on to the rear facing captain's chair in the back. 

My flight job used isolettes for neos and then a pedimate for pretty much everyone else.  I was not a fan of pedimates for small kids.  The fit never seemed to be quite right.

Welcome.

I reported it this morning when it first appeared.

I heard this story on NPR this morning on my way in to work.  We've been asking the same question here for years!  It's nice to see it finally getting some daylight.

Here's the story:

Why send a firetruck to do an ambulance's job?

How about instead of spamming the forums you buy some ad space and support Admin and the site?

9 hours ago, mhurtgen said:

I do understand and I don't care if any profit is made from this. I just want to write it. If any profit is gained I would not keep any of it.

Have you considered obtaining the education and experience first hand?  An autobiographical tome may offer more than merely living vicariously through others.

Depends on the school.

I've long argued the biggest problem in US EMS is education or the lack thereof.  Want to fix EMS?  Fix the education.  For profit institutions are not necessarily the best way to go about that, however.

You do understand that you're not the first person to come here looking for material to write a book, right?  You do understand the skepticism offered to anyone coming here looking to profit off of our stories and experiences, right?

Welcome.

What's in it for us?  What's the incentive to let you profit from our stories?

10 hours ago, cekuriger said:

I think that's totally irrelevant to this website, and politics are best left off of here. 

Hmmm... my spidey sense is tingling.

Welcome.

Welcome.  I've been to Kansas.  Nice place.  They have wind.  Dust, too.

Can a market like rural Montana tolerate much in the way of competition?  Especially as a means to keep prices in check?  Helicopters are, by nature, expensive to operate and maintain.  Safe air medical operations come at a financial cost. 

The same question can be made of health care in many communities.  Population density can only support so much.  Market factors can only support so much.

It is a conundrum as Off Label noted.  The money has to come from somewhere.  People want to have the service available, or at least the option of the service available, but understandably balk when the price tag is levied against them.  When it's your loved one, family member, or you(!), price isn't really what you're thinking about when the decision is made to use many aspects of health care.  Should it really be a consideration in a true emergency?

Not sure what you're on about negative tone.  This is adult conversation. 

Good day.

1 hour ago, emt2359 said:

 

"HIPAA broadly permits ambulances services and dispatch agencies to communicate any treatment-related information over the airwaves."

Here is a great read:

HIPAA Didn’t Kill the Radio Star
http://psc.apcointl.org/2010/08/26/hipaa-radio-emd/

 

Comments and link provided by you demonstrating that you either missed the point of the OP, misunderstood it completely, or have no comprehension regarding the topic of discussion.

The question is not whether ambulance services are allowed to transmit certain information over the airwaves as necessary to complete the call as argued by your quotation and linked article.  The question is not whether those radio transmissions are legal or if they violate federal patient privacy laws again as argued by you with your quotation and linked article.  The question is did the bonehead who recorded this and posted it to a social media website violate federal patient privacy laws by recording information containing details commonly considered to be protected (i.e. patient's address and identifying information such as gender and age) and posting it to a social media website?  Just because the radio transmissions may be covered under existing law does not mean that their subsequent recording and public social media display are also covered.