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duly noted lol Interesting, I'm curious to know what was the main idea behind fighting the upgrade to minimum standards exactly.

Very well put, thanks a bunch for your input!!

Very well written post Kiwimedic and I'm fairly familiar with how things are run from across the U.S. I'm not a fan of the 12 wk or short term paramedic courses that are run through out the U.S. and feel they do little to nothing in terms of helping the occupation or practice of the field. "Most Paramedics out there get a quick watered down couple of weeks of A&P and a week of pharmacology. Because of this each Medical Director will give his or her Paramedics what he or she is comfortable with. I have had a medical director tell me that he does not know from where his Paramedics are coming e.g. a 12 week patch mill or a two year college program taught by a University School of Medicine so he has to take the view that the worst possible Paramedic in the world will be using the protocol he writes." That statement in and of itself proves it and I'm in full agreement with the MPD. We are limited by what we are allowed to do based on what an MPD feels comfortable with what we are doing. That's where not only ourselves, as "Prehospital Professionals" should take ownership towards pushing our MPD's to raising the bar and making requirements not only per their own areas, but legislatively in their respective states/regions to ensure Medics are educated properly, so that they are comfortable allowing them to perform to capacity. I'd really be interested in seeing your post if you could ever find it!! So, my question still stands though, what is your opinion on it? Would standardization in delivery of EMS care be supported nationally, by counties, or by region? Why or why not? and finally, should it be? why or why not? in your own opinion of course! Thanks!! And by the way just for reference to you who read the post a little background on myself. I've been involved in EMS for going on 5 years now, so I'm relatively young into it, I'm working on finishing my B.S. in Paramedicine from Central Washington University. I'm a new boot Medic fresh out since August after a year + of coursework and interning and now working in Yakima, Washington for the larger of two private ambulance companies that provide ALS services for the county. Our calls range from <2 min transports to 40+ min transports running code from outlying towns from the main city throughout the county. Which makes our call volume fairly diverse in many aspects. If you guys have any other questions about me or my county please feel free to inbox me! Also again for those of you reading, In my original post is an attachment of my survey. If your interested in participating in it, that would be great! Just download the survey and check the boxes, fill out the spaces, save it as Survey- "your Screen name or name here", and attach to your thread posting. Thanks! LJ

Not so much looking into systems in particular to compare. The purpose of my design study is to get a concensus from all pre-hospital providers on their opinion, as well as DOH administrations, EMS managers, training officers, and ultimately the MPD's. Basically for a push towards raising the bar overall across the U.S. as far as the delivery of care and standardizing those elements of care. I.e. like how in some systems paramedics are allowed to RSI, while in others your not. If we're all supposed to be held to the same standards nationally, why can't we practice and deliver the same time of care..nationally? I believe we should. Thanks for your input though, Ive yet to look very much into outside systems although I've glanced here and there and I am interested in the progression other systems in various countries are set up. Especially, with their education requirements.

Dwayne, Hey brother, I didn't realize that a thread topic could be placed in only one forum section, sorry for that! Thanks for your reply! I appreciate the input!

Hi everyone! I'm new to the boards and came across them while trying to figure out a way to do a small consensus on a research proposal I'm doing for a EMS Research Design class. Theres a full manuscript that delves into the the background of my research proposal, as well as the design, methods, etc. to the study, but as far as this week is concerned I'm just looking for a small consensus to build a sample population of results. So here is my proposed research question. Would standardization in delivery of EMS care be supported nationally, by counties, or by region? I'm very interested in seeing how we deliver care to our patients being standardized across the country. This falls in line in terms of protocol and treatments rendered. I'm aware that it is dependent on the systemm MPD, and type of area (i.e. urban vs rural) and that these differ as times of transports and patient acuity can make a difference in what some areas allow providers to perform. Hopefully, the survey I created works without too many flaws and I hope to see what some of you think. Please attach the filled out form in your reply if that is possible. Thanks! LJU - Survey.xml