It’s been snowing all day — a blizzard. Eight or nine inches on the ground already. Now it’s night and I’m hungry, so we drive out through the snow to get a hot pizza. At the pizza shop, I notice a grey faced woman say hello to me as I go in the door, then […]
Last night one of our long-time members came in at ten to relieve the on duty crew. He has been an EMT for over twenty years and helps teach the EMT class here in the suburbs. He heard about the code we did yesterday and talked to the new kid about it. “I wanted to […]
Simon Rescue Breaths or Compressions in Overdose? The one plan guideline is too simplistic. By definition od has a hypoxic etiology and therefore vents are indicated but the issue for me is that cpr of bls trained people are not actually "trained" ventilation practitioners and shouldn't be considered qualified in suspected ohca to safely deliver them.
2018-04-25 10:26:25
David Clark Follow Up I'm a fire guy, EMT etc. One of the things that stick in my mind is that when the guru's decided to make the narcan available to the masses, someone didn't think this through. In 44 years, I have seen a share of problems, but knee-jerk issues of a good thing can often turn out…
2018-04-12 21:32:26
Patricia INSIDE LOOK AT LIFE AS AN EMT Great post, I'm waiting for more such, I was very interested :)
2018-04-10 09:34:32
Meggie Undetermined Very useful entry, as always, I really like coming back to your blog :)
2018-04-08 10:30:47
Mike INSIDE LOOK AT LIFE AS AN EMT Hey Peter, I just wanted to say I agree with you. I'm a rural EMT as well and I've read Paramedic and Resc. 471, as well as a lot of this blog, and I've never felt that you ignore or put down BLS providers. I guess different people read things in different ways. Either way,…
2018-04-08 02:14:55