Scaramedic

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You need a hobby Micheal!

I dunno. The slant is supposed to be functional for people low crawling and wearing body armour, but there really is no function for us in EMS. The velcro on those specific pockets makes them bulky and sloppy looking. Buttons wouldn't be as bad, but again, I don't like to tempt people to stick things in white shirt pockets. It looks like shit. It looks like shit on dark shirts too, but at least it doesn't show as much from a distance.

I agree go with buttons but I still like the look. Maybe it's because I've spent to many years with normal pockets and want something different.

...East Texas Medical Center (which also runs OKC and Tulsa, although under a different name) ...

Don't forget Sunstar in Pinellas County, Fl. They've got that now too.

The shirts don't have to be custom jobs, except for the embroidery. The Van Heusen Aviator shirts are perfect off the rack, and not available through Gall's and other public safety suppliers, so again, not readily accessible to posers.

Sharp looking shirt. Looks great with the epaulet sleeves too.

Absolutely. I'm not down with patches. Maybe a small, classy looking embroidered crest on the left chest, identifying the agency. I do like the epaulette stripe thing. I started that at a small county service back in the mid 80's and everybody thought it was stupid. Within three years, all the big boys had gone to the same thing, and suddenly it wasn't so stupid anymore. I'm not really about name tags or anything else that pins onto the uniform. For that matter, I'm not really about names on uniforms at all. If, for some legal reason, we have to, then I'd go with small embroidered names above the right pocket to avoid name tags and badges.

I agree I put name tags up there with badges. Brentolis right with most systems wearing ID cards do we even need our names on our shirts? What are we McDonalds?

OK, sorry I failed to make the connection. Now I get it. My personal fav AF thing is the new ads talking about their Cyber Attack team and how great it is. Then last week I read a report the DOD computers had been breached and their still running the ads!

Ah yes.. Air Force über alles.

Soon to corralling all the American jews into ghettos, then bombing them..or some much D:

WTF!!! :shock:

Tucked in, at least in my opinion. I like a sharp look and I think loose tails would get caught on things. Also the more I thought about it the sleeve pocket would have to go. It is a shirt, if you wore a jacket over it the pens would get caught on the jacket and be unaccessible. I think the slanted packets would looks sharp and definitely distinguish us from FD, PD, Security, and the Mailmen out there. Also hardly anyone in the states wears green, seems like everyone is stuck in black or blue nowadays. I like green, kind of like Patton's Tank uniform he designed if anyone remembers that. Minus the gold football helmet.

Also we could drop the cheesy patches and go with white stripes on the epaulets, ala our neighbors to the North.

Ok I'll take a shot. It has to be different than Fire & PD. How about we steal some Military concepts.

First the shirt.

(My short sleeve photoshop job)

You standard ACU Jacket. Except...

Make it a cotton button shirt.

Keep the slanted pockets and pocket in the arm.

Do away with the velcro and name strips.

Add Solid Hunter Green epaulets and a button down collar.

Color: Solid White

Pants

Basic ACU pants.

Minus the drawstrings at the bottom.

Add permanent creases.

Color: Solid Hunter green

It never ceases to amaze me how a little incident can lead to amazing injuries. I once a had a women who had a tire blowout on the highway she skidded to a stop and did not hit anything. Yet she was c/o neck pain, turns our she a has a C6 fracture. Young lady, no history of osteoporosis or history of anything for that matter. Yet I've seen vehicles go airborne, roll over five times and the occupant walks away without a scratch. It never makes sense to me.

Like Stephen King once said in a book, "when God tells you to hang up your jock it does not matter what your age or health, it's over and there's not a damn thing you can do about it."

If they start paying in Tequilla I'm moving!!

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I was thinking more along the lines of one of the Emperor's Club girls in a librarian's outfit, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

[align=center:a0fc5db25d]Ask and ye' shall receive.

Warning adult content!!

Seriously, you've been warned!

I'm not kidding you might not want to click it!

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If your county has more than 1 comma in it's population you really can't call yourself rural. :wink:

Spenac your not rural your third world by association.

Love them. My favorite tool in the box. I'll drop a nasal trumpet on a stubbed toe. JK.

They are handy though.

We all want to be in this business and we all want to be good if not great at it, then who really cares about a uniform. Let's talk about other things like services eliminating intubation and External Jugular Vein Cannulation. Or services that do not do 12 lead Interpretation or teach 12 lead interpretation. Sorry I will get off my soap box.

Which are great subjects for another thread, this thread is about UNIFORMS. Hence the title 'Uniforms' not 12 leads or ETI.

I've mentioned it before but I had a patient with non-stop hiccups.

You guessed it active MI. No other S/S. Just hiccups.

So far my experience with them has been positive, but there is a reason. When I've worked for the Empire their hands were tied because it was a PUM. Like them or hate them PUM's can keep a company like AMR in line. I have never worked for them where they are completely free to screw everyone over.

Scara-I know Washington's got all the different I levels, but how often do all of them actually get used?

It's like the Wild West out here when it comes to certs. I can't give you exact numbers but I usually see IV or Airway techs. I don't know about the boonies though, I think the ILS levels are for them.

Am I surprised? No.

Now you all know why I dread crossing the river. It's just getting to weird over there. They should change the name to North California. Though I do admit I love the no sales tax on that side of the river. Great for buying Plasma TV's, refrigerators, anything that has a high price. Save a lot of money thanks to Oregon. I also like the fact I don't have to pump my own gas.

As you probably know most cell phones have a GPS chip to track for the E-911 system. This website allows you to track anyone's cell phone and find where they are in the U.S.

Track your partner

Really cool service.

Spraying the drug on the tongue is still sublingual. Oral implies swallowing the drug.

:banghead:

I am trying to get a fix on this company AMR.

Aren't they that little company out of Colorado?

Here is why we give it SUBlingual.

Bioavailability is 59% after sublingual administration and 22% after oral administration.

From Drugs.com

In other words it is over twice as effective to give it SL than oral.

And were you even practising in the days of NTG tablets?

The only problem with the tablets was getting the patient not to chew them. One of my Paramedic instructors use to tell his patient the nitroglycerin would explode if they chewed it. :shock:

Thanks for the new sig Dust.

I like 2" paste on the chest.

I have actually sprayed so much NTG on a transport I even got a headache. I also agree you always spray it once before you spray it in your patient.

Washington makes it even more confusing since we have the alphabet system.

We actually have FIVE levels of Intermediates.

EMT-IV Technician

EMT-Airway Technician

EMT-IV/Airway Technician

EMT-ILS Technician

EMT-ILS/Airway Technician

:shock:

Basic anatomy.

Top of tongue, thick membrane covered with papillae, i.e. taste buds.

Not great for absorption of medications.

Bottom of tongue. Thin mebrane, full of major vessels.

Great for absorbing medications.

Nuff said.

Addendum. Secondary to prior post.

lingual

Pronunciation:

ˈliŋ-gwəl also ˈliŋ-gyə-wəl

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Latin lingua

Date:

1650

1 a: of, relating to, or resembling the tongue b: lying near or next to the tongue; especially : relating to or being the surface of tooth next to the tongue c: produced by the tongue

In other words sublingual is by it's very name under the tongue. That is where the tongue thing comes from you just mentioned.