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Hi all. We're coming up on our first big snow of the season, and I'm curious what (if any) special precautions or training your services do to prepare their crews for responding to 911s in heavy snow/ice/etc....

Hello Folk, I was wondering if anyone in TN has actually implemented a Critical Care Paramedic Transport Program. It's new endorsement for our state so programs are slowly cropping up. If anyone has, how's it going? Do you have protocols yet? What are they? Thanks, John J...

I thought about putting this in student centre, but I think overall this is an industry wide issue. I was sitting in Legal and Ethical Issues class today as we talked about a case study regarding handing over clean syringes when asked my a junkie as they only have dirty one's. The knee jerk responses from alot of people ...

I am putting together a class on documentation and since so many hospitals are getting rid of long accepted abbreviations that I see used commonly in EMS ( MS = morphine or morphine sulfate), I wanted to find out if any services, states or other entities in EMS have compiled a list of acceptable abbreviations. Any link to ...

Hello! I am working on a project and would appreciate your professional opinions. START triage uses red, yellow, green, and black to designate conditions of victims of an MCI. If we were to include a color to designate children (peds), what color would it be and why? Thank you very much for your help....

Recently my service had a pt "flip out" during a wheelchair van transport home. The individual could walk and initially had been calm, cooperative and pleasant, middle aged male. He let himself out of the safety belt and repeatedly asked the female driver for a HUG to help him calm down and tried to reach for her. This ...

The great system of socialized medicine. The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) It's five o'clock on a Friday afternoon and not a single ambulance is available in the city. Thousands of commuters are on their way home or to the cottage. The thermometer is hovering around 30 C. It's a peak time for emergency calls, ...

Hello Folks, My service has recently decided to end the option of bidding a truck by two paramedics. What our mgmt doesn't realize is that on our busier trucks (5th busiest ambulance in the nation) a double paramedic crew is essential. It allows the crew to split the workload not to mention it cuts down on liability. ...

If this were to happen, which it probably won’t, it would set a very interesting precedent. Retired Mounties driving ambulances?

Does anyone work for Tulsa Life Flight in Oklahoma? I am just inquiring information about the company. I know the website is www.tulsalifeflight.com, but the information I am looking for is not on the website. Thank you....

Hi all. We're coming up on our first big snow of the season, and I'm curious what (if any) special precautions or training your services do to prepare their crews for responding to 911s in heavy snow/ice/etc....