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Does anyone know where I can find a closer Critical Care EMT-Paramedic course? I live in Oklahoma and would like to find a CCEMTP course, hopefully close than Georgia in May. Please if anyone knows anything please let me know. Thank you...

I was just curious what TOR policies have in place, if any? If your service area does, what are the circumstances under which you can do a TOR? What level of provider is able to do a TOR, and so forth? In Ontario PCPs across the board are able to do TORs for Blunt Penetrating Trauma if certain criteria are met. And ...

G'day guys, I've heard on many, many occasions that the use of adrenaline (or epinephrine depending on where you are from) in cardiac arrest is an independant predictor of neurological dysfunction. I've been trying to find some research that backs up this statement but haven't been getting any love from the searches I...

First I would like to say thank you to all of you who post on here. I have come to this site for a long time to read and stay current on the happenings outside of my little world, and the information is great. Now to my situation. I recently have taken an administrative position in a new area that has allowed me to review...

hello Guys Listen, currently I am writing my MA thesis in specialist translation and exactly I will be writing an English-Polish dictionary of Medical Rescue. One of its sections is Fixed Pharses that paramedics use in their work. What I mean is certain utterances, phrases that are standard and used in particular ...

Im trying to become a firefighter in Raleigh, NC and need a EMT-B Cert but where can I find a school or class where I can do this fast? Thanks for the help.

We have recently added 12 leads to our protocols. For the most part it's been as a smooth transition but a Q wave question has come up that I can't seem to find an answer for. We are taught how to distinquish between a pathological and physiological q wave based on it's size. What's not clear is whether this finding ...

About 2 years ago some of the local hospitals removed LR from the warmers where they kept NSS and LR. Since our medical director was on staff at one of the hospitals that did that, our service also removed LR from the IV warmers on the units. I recently began working at another service that still had LR in the IV warmers ...

Just read a thread on here about the lowest BGL you have seen and I saw a post on there about a pt that was hypoglycemic and had decorticate posturing. excuse my ignorance as I am a new medic but can someone explain the relation between posturing and hypoglycemia? thanks...

I 2nd medicmole's comments. Speak with the nurse first and see what his reasoning was. Perhaps there is more here than meets the eye.