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We carry the ez-io gun. Carry the large adult and peds needles. For children our protocols are tibial tuberosity and adults always in the humeral head. The medical directors state there's some research that says stuff gets where it needs to go faster in the humerus.

To become a preceptor or FTO at the service I work for is an individual choice that providers can make. No one is forced to take students, preceptors are paid extra while precepting and it is actually a several week class, with multiple letters of recomendation you have to get to be considered for the position. I think it works well and makes sure that when students are here to ride. They get some one that really wants to teach them and is going to be good at it.

Just wondering, and I searched but couldn't find a topic (who knows maybe I just suck at searching haha.) what everyones call volume is like in the area they work, as in number of runs service wide,and number of runs your EMS unit does.

In Indy there are approx 140,000 medical runs each year.

I work on medic 11 we do 12 hour shifts, and average around 10-12runs a shift. putting us at about 6800 calls a year.

Versed is the only benzo carried on our ambulances. We use it for both seizures and chemical restraint. Have seen it used dozens of times for both uses. It's very effective and fast acting whether administered IV IM or IN.

also a nail chewer as bad as it is. It doesn't matter if it's an intense trauma or just a Dehydrated person. Whenever I spike an IV bag, I take the plastic cover off the Spike and chew on it the entire call. Spit it out in the trash as I get ready to exit the ambulance. Not sure Why I do that, just do haha.

in the city where my full time EMS job is, the Indianapolis Fire Department responds with us on all A code calls. they carry an 02 bag with the standard equipment, an AED, and a trauma bag, on occasion the engine may have a medic on board and he supplements their equipment with a drug box that carries all the meds we have in marion county minus narcotics. Ladders carry the same equipment but also have C collars and a back board.

on My volly Fire Department in rural indiana, our Grass Rig is also our Primary EMS truck. On it, we carry a backboard C-collars, a stocked 02 bag, a trauma bag with all your necesities including oral glucose, and ASA and an AED. nothin super fancy, just enough to get the job done until the ambulance arrives. our engine also carries the same equip. while the tanker has none.

we have 3.25 14g needles we use. we just keep them taped up on th wall above the airway seat for easy access when needed

I used the cheapy ambulance stethoscopes for about two years and they were ok. But, I couldn't always hear a faint BP or eak pulse. So I recently upgraded to a Littman cardiology 3. got it for $90 from a friend who said it was two heavy for him. I can hear astronomically better with it, but I can also hear my partner murmuring to himself in the front seat of the truck haha. I'm quickly learning how to filter out background, and it has made hearing lung sounds and BP's so much easier. I also don't think its that heavy of a scope.

omg....wow...that was hideous...

Wish granted!

You have won the tournament but due to the recession you now owe them $5000.

I wish chat was still a free service

Poof Granted, you know have a sunken john boat locked in the ice of antartica!

i Wish i was president

Most of our calls come in either real early Sunday morning(old people dont handle getting up for church well) or Saturday day or evening.

You ass. Way to twist my words Brent

Thats harsh Dust lol.

But yeah, I wouldnt leave anything unlocked in a place like Buffalo.

I must say those are very neat looking.

Wow haha something tells me someone will get rich from these FAILERS lol.

Wish granted you are now a pidgeon but the only man you find to poop on is the statue of the thinker.

I wish I could be like SPENAC

poof wish granted, you are now a flatuelant grumpy man that lives in the middle of no where and hates everyone

I wish I was 18.

Ok, before the whole blah hes a teenager don't listen to hm thing jumps in. I'd likie to throw my own wrench into this heated debate. I consider myself as having to much of a lack of life experiance to pick up a big stance on abortion. But how about stem cell research. I'm strongly for this and feel that it is a very powerful and oportunistic medical research we should continue and attempt to learn as much from as possible seeing as they already have studies showing what miracles stem cells can work.

How do you all feel about it?

do you consider that clump of undifferentiated cells a baby or human life?

Really not that expensive. Depends on how well equiped this car will be. Bad idea though, just put Paramedics on all aaaaaaammmmmbbbbbbuuuuuulllllaaaannnnnncccceeeesss and no need to try this.

why is this such a bad idea? Brent is on at a volunteer service and that is probably why he is looking into an ALS fly car.

We have all volunteer basics at my service and the paramedic is Paid and is on station 24/7. He responds in a fly car when a call comes out fully stocked wkith all the ALS equipment so the patient receives ALS equipment until the volunteer ambulance arrives and then the medic transports with us to continue care or transfer to BLS depending on the patients condition.

hmm brent as your fellow Indiana resident I was first taught START as a first responder in 05. In my EMT class we also received START triage training and certification. My service hasnt received any special kits or equipment for it though.

Yeah, there are ER jobs out there for EMT's and they do pay a fair share better than your $8.50 an hour transport services. The problem is that since they pay better everyone s gunning for them and all you will do n the ER is take vital signs and ferry patients to and fro different locations and areas. I see EMT's work in the triage area of hospitals alot.

in Indiana you dont need any special license. Most places just require you to take EVOC soon after being hired.

their engines scare me lol. They are freakin peterbuilt SEMI trucks with a water tank pump and hoses slapped on the back. and all those sirens is so they can let people hear them from 5 miles away because you wont see them with that color scheme.

You just gotta relax chevy. I did my practicals about a week ago and as long as you know them and focus when your in there everything will run just fine! we have faith in you.

WOOT WOOT 400th post

then the drunken ER attending stumbles into the ambulance bay with a shotgun and blasts the squirels for the nurses lunch :shock: