redbkirk2001

You should have. Not only to forum rules require you to read all responses before replying to a topic, but you just made a fool of yourself making statements that have either already been disproven, or are irrelevant to the topic.

If the weapon is concealed, then none of your concerns apply. Pepper spray? Better to gas the whole truck and live than to sit there and get your arse handed to you. We're supposed to help people? How exactly are you helping anyone while getting murdered? My patient is only my secondary concern. I am my own primary concern. I guess you forgot the first day of EMT school, where they told you that, if you become another patient, you can't help anyone. That is what this is all about. If you would allow yourself to die so you wouldn't have to hurt your patient, be my guest. Be an idiot. But don't drag me into the grave with you.

Actually I was taught that I was my primary concern, then my partner, then the patient. But I was also taught a little thing called "scene safety." If you believe the scene isn't safe, don't go in and call for police back up, they are there to help us. If the patient is combative/hostile ask the police to go with you to the hospital, most of the police I've dealt with will go with you or have them search the patient before you go en-route to the hospital. If the weapon is concealed, where would it be concealed? all of the places I've worked at require uniform shirts to be tucked in. How long would it take you to get it? To me concealment means more time to draw the weapon. To your pepper spray idea, You would rather gas the truck and become a patient yourself or risk your life, your partners life, and your patients life, if the truck is moving, cause of a possible accident cause of exposure to pepper spray. Pepper spray will disperse throughout the entire truck not just focus on the person trying to attack you. If your in close quarters such as the truck use and oxygen cylinder or your feet, fist, or any part of your body you could think of. I honestly think tazers/stuns guns would be the best thing to carry out of the three.

Ok, I'll admit I didn't read everyone's responses but I have to say if certain few or all of us are armed I see our sidearms more of a threat than anyone else's. I think if we have a gun that would give patients more of an excuse to attack us or even bystanders, we can't always keep an eye out when we have a patient to treat. Tazers could be a great idea, but I thought our job was to help people in their time of need and not do anymore harm. Yes I understand self defense situations do come up, even I have been attacked, but I didn't have to use any weapon to defend myself. Pepperspray wouldn't be a great idea in my personal opinion because what if we get attacked and have to use it in the back of the truck, it would affect everyone including your partner who is driving. Which in turn can cause an accident and kill us all.

Bringing it back from 2006....Yea yea. i Got bored and thought I'd update the list of everything I've collected so far....

General

Welcome To My Life- Simple Plan

Welcome To The Jungle- Guns 'N' Roses

Break Stuff- Limp Bizkit

Mr. Ambulance Driver- The Flaming Lips

The Artist in the Ambulance- Thrice

Hit The Lights- Metallica

My Way- Limp Bizkit

Dirty Little Secret- The All-American Rejects

Save Me- Remy Zero

Savin' Me- Nickelback

Get Out Alive- Three Days Grace

Superman- Five For Fighting

Kryptonite- 3 Doors Down

Hero Of The Day- Metallica

Hero- Chad Kroeger

The Beautiful People- Marilyn Manson

Save Me- Shinedown

Somebody Get Me A Doctor- Van Halen

Dr. Feelgood- Motley Crue

I Wanna Be Sedated- Social Distortion

Remedy- Seether

Codes

Bodies- Drowning Pool

Time of Dying- Three Days Grace

Creeping Death- Metallica

One Last Breath- Creed

My Last Breath- Evanescence

Hello- Evanescence

Breath No More- Evanescence

Another One Bites The Dust- Queen

Gravedigger- Dave Mathews

Ticket To Heaven- 3 Doors Down

Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin

Edge Of Heaven- Ace Of Base(SHUT UP PEOPLE I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING, just listen to it before you say something)

Knocking On Heaven Door- Guns 'N' Roses

See You On The Other Side- Ozzy Osbourne

Bring Me To Life- Evanescence (Pushing the drugs)

Boom- P.O.D. (Shocks)

Keep Yourself Alive- Queen

Alive- P.O.D. (obvious, but for those of us that don't know, Get a pulse back.)

Time of Dying- Three Days Grace

Respiratory

Harder to Breathe- Maroon 5

Overdose

Breaking The Habit- Linkin Park

Tequila Sunrise- Eagles

Shootings

Janie's Got A Gun- Aerosmith

Side Of A Bullet- Nickelback

Bullets- Creed

45- Shinedown

Domestics

One Step Closer- Linkin' Park (Live In Texas)

Lacerated- Shinedown

MVC

Rollin'- Limp Bizkit

Fuel- Metallica

Trauma

Numb- Linkin Park

Psych

Livin' On The Edge- Aerosmith

Crawling- Linkin Park

Where The Wild Things Are- Metallica

The Other Side- Aerosmith

Ghost Behind My Eyes- Ozzy Osbourne

My Immortal- Evanescence

Missing- Evanescence

Bother- Stone Sour

Broken- Seether w/ Amy Lee

Pig- Seether

Pain- Three Days Grace

Fine Again- Seether

Low Man's Lyric- Metallica

Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne

Stone Cold Crazy- Queen

Subject In Pain

Send The Pain Below- Chevelle

Suicide Attempt

Suicide Is Painless- Johnny Mandel(M*A*SH* Theme)

Jumper- Third Eye Blind

OB

With Arms Wide Open- Creed

Frequent Flyers

My Sacrifice- Creed

Down With The Sickness- Disturbed

Triage

Live And Let Die- Guns 'N' Roses

Vital Signs- Rush

Prison Transports

....And Justice For All- Metallica

Unknown Medical/Other

Weathered- Creed

Fire Stand-Bys

Great Balls of Fire- Jerry Lee Lewis

Smoke on the Water- Deep Purple

Medic/EMT Students

Just Another Victim- Cypress Hill

80 Songs

Alright, let's see it's been awhile since i've been on here but.....did the NH take any labs when he was admitted? If so, are the results back? What I, being only an EMT, would do for this guy, throw some O2 his way via N/C @ 4 LPM(covering bases) ALS Intervention (If on an ALS truck, if not call for ALS assist) Stroke check-out (for me, squeezing of both hands, smiling, sticking tongue out, feet). Transport to hospital, if hospital is closer than medic, or medic is not available.......did I miss anything?

Monday night I found out that AMR is taking over the ambulance company that I work for, as of the 13th of August.....I don't really know that much about AMR. The company I work for is a Non-profit transport company. I have a bad and good feelings about this happening. I have already put my application in for AMR cause if I didn't I would be out of a job on the 13th. It'll be AMR's first station (that I know of) in Montgomery County, PA. Can anyone give their opinion on what they think I should do in this situation? It would be greatly appreciated.

General

Welcome To My Life- Simple Plan

Welcome To The Jungle- Guns 'N' Roses

Hit The Lights- Metallica

My Way- Limp Bizkit

Dirty Little Secret- The All-American Rejects

Save Me- Remy Zero

Savin' Me- Nickelback

Get Out Alive- Three Days Grace

Superman- Five For Fighting

Kryptonite- 3 Doors Down

We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions- Queen

Hero Of The Day- Metallica

Hero- Chad Kroeger

The Beautiful People- Marilyn Manson

Save Me- Shinedown

Remedy- Seether

Codes

Bodies- Drowning Pool

One Last Breath- Creed

My Last Breath- Evanescence

Hello- Evanescence

Breath No More- Evanescence

Another One Bites The Dust- Queen

Gravedigger- Dave Mathews

Ticket To Heaven- 3 Doors Down

Stairway To Heaven- Great White (Couldn't find the Led Zeppelin version so i got the next best thing)

Edge Of Heaven- Ace Of Base(SHUT UP PEOPLE I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING, just listen to it before you say something)

Knocking On Heaven Door- Guns 'N' Roses

See You On The Other Side- Ozzy Osbourne

Bring Me To Life- Evanescence (Pushing the drugs)

Boom- P.O.D. (Shocks)

Alive- P.O.D. (obvious, but for those of us that don't know, Get a pulse back.)

Time of Dying- Three Days Grace

Respiratory

Harder to Breathe- Maroon 5

Overdose

Breaking The Habit- Linkin Park

Tequila Sunrise- Eagles

Shootings

Janie's Got A Gun- Aerosmith

Side Of A Bullet- Nickelback

Bullets- Creed

45- Shinedown

Domestics

One Step Closer- Linkin' Park (Live In Texas)

Lacerated- Shinedown

MVC

Rollin'- Limp Bizkit

Fuel- Metallica

Psych

Livin' On The Edge- Aerosmith

Crawling- Linkin Park

Where The Wild Things Are- Metallica

Ghost Behind My Eyes- Ozzy Osbourne

My Immortal- Evanescence

Missing- Evanescence

Bother- Stone Sour

Broken- Seether w/ Amy Lee

Pig- Seether

Pain- Three Days Grace

Fine Again- Seether

Low Man's Lyric- Metallica

Suicide Attepmt

Suicide Is Painless- Johnny Mandel(M*A*SH* Theme)

OB

With Arms Wide Open- Creed

Frequent Flyers

My Sacrifice- Creed

Down With The Sickness- Disturbed

Triage

Live And Let Die- Guns 'N' Roses

Prison Transports

....And Justice For All- Metallica

Unknown Medical/Other

Weathered- Creed

Medic/EMT Students

Just Another Victim- Cypress Hill

63 songs......thinking about putting them up on iMix for iTunes..let me know what you think.

Alright.......I'm going to say ALS, because the systolic pressure dropped more than 15 points [yes it is still above 100 and she would obviously be lying down in the back] from lying down in the chair to standing up. The "lightheadedness" could be a result of the dialysis, but who knows. With the heparin onboard she'll have a longer clotting time(yea I know DUH!!). Well.......that's all from me right now.

WOW!!!! They really need to air these is the U.S. i think it would bring a whole new point across to people.

You are trained in a higher level of care....Me being a lifeguard at one point in my life and now an EMT. I was always told that the person with a higher level of training is in charge. It's a difficult situation.

it's my turn to be on top.

Hey guess what? I'm looking down at everyone cause I'M ON TOP!!!!

Hey hey hey............me on top and everyone else on the bottom. Hmmmmmm :twisted: =D> :lol:/

hmmmm......looks like i'm on top again.

Look who's on top now!

hey if kate wants to jump on top of me i have no problem with that, but when my mother jumps ontop of her there is my problem....by the way i'm on top.

i'm on top once again

I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD....... Damn last person who said that is now at the bottom of the ocean.... :-({|= 8-[

TOP

TOP

I'm on top

*starts carryin a baseball bat* I'm on top and lets see who passes me

i'm moving to the top....Come one mom you know what they say kids are 10 times worse than their parents...I'm on top

*Starts putting things up people's pants and dresses* I'm on TOP

well kim we know you like it on top but *pushes kim over* i'm on top

I'M STILL KING AND I'M ON TOP