How many levels in your state

[frontcrawl]

my state is about to add the intermediate level, the planned scope is

[*]IVs (NS, LR & D50W)

[*]Combitube/King LT-D insertion

[*]Cardiopulmonary bypass (apneic patients only)

[*]IM Glucagon & Narcan

[*]Burr holes & icepick lobotomies (with medical control authorization)

[*]Nebulized Albuterol

they are saying the class is going to be 78 hours over five weekends....at first the course was going to be like 120 hours but that's just to damn long around here......I mean who can take that much time off...thats longer than an EMT course for crying out loud...not like any of this stuff is that hard to do

anyway

later

[kyle308]

my state is about to add the intermediate level, the planned scope is

[*]IVs (NS, LR & D50W)

[*]Combitube/King LT-D insertion

[*]Cardiopulmonary bypass (apneic patients only)

[*]IM Glucagon & Narcan

[*]Burr holes & icepick lobotomies (with medical control authorization)

[*]Nebulized Albuterol

they are saying the class is going to be 78 hours over five weekends....at first the course was going to be like 120 hours but that's just to damn long around here......I mean who can take that much time off...thats longer than an EMT course for crying out loud...not like any of this stuff is that hard to do

anyway

later

120 hpurs to long :?: ...it should be more lik 200 hours since your are giving them drugs to give people, and with a more advanced scope.. they just need a lot more education to have ALS skills.

[Dustdevil]

Stop. Just stop answering. Please.

Definitely. I mean really, who here didn't know that the next question was going to be, "but what can they do?"

Somebody find the "Oh geeze, not this shit again!" picture for us. I'm on a borrowed computer.

[mrsmall]

My county only runs ALS fire and ALS ambulance

[Dustdevil]

My county only runs ALS fire and ALS ambulance

What exactly is an ALS fire?

Is that like a fire that needs more than a fire extinguisher? Maybe a second alarm?

[frontcrawl]

No, it has to do with the use of fire as a life support technique. The ALS fire department is responsible for transporting the ALS flame to the scene using surplus Olympic Flame equipment.