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Dear Radiologist
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You are absolutely right, you don’t work in primary care.
I defer to your superior clinical knowledge, but I don’t think it’s necessary to deal with this scalp laceration.
When it comes to prehospital medicine, scene safety, crowd management and the operation (including ‘fend off) of emergency vehicles?
I am way better at this than you.
So to that end, please step away from the crashed vehicle, stop harassing me to pick up the bloody tissues (”It’s an HAI risk…”) and before you end up crushed to radiologist coulis under the wheels of a rubbernecker’s vehicle, kindly ge...
Source: Trauma Queen - March 18, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Dear Source Type: blogs
6/365 Census, I am Counted!Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 18, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: 365 Photo Quest Source Type: blogs
A Deep And Abiding RespectEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the debate over how to make our EMS systems and ourselves better at what we do, there is an underlying danger that’s worth mentioning.
After we’ve examined the research, explored the systems and best practices, fought to advance our scope of practice, supported competence, raised minimum standards and advanced ourselves as a profession, there is an underlying danger that we should mention.
There’s a pitfall that we should take care to avoid.
The danger is that we may begin to do our work for the sake of the work itself, instead of for a deep and abiding respect for life. Life in general and the lives w...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 18, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: The Big Get It Source Type: blogs
5/365 Dogs and Their BoyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 17, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: 365 Photo Quest Source Type: blogs
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Last Wednesday evening I was sitting eating dinner with the Digitals, watching DigitalLouis do his “How Much Mucus Can One Child Produce?” cabaret when DigitalKatie said to me.
“If he’s like this tomorrow, he’s not going to nursery. Can we call you?”
So it wasn’t with much surprise that I answered my phone to her the next morning - can I look after a snotty wee boy for the day?
Does Rose Kennedy own a black dress?
So Louis and I spent the day watching CBeebies, doing paperwork, learning about cocaine’s anaesthetic properties and nibbling on chocolate biscuits. The whole ...
Source: Trauma Queen - March 17, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs
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It's getting harder for me to blog because I'm trying to not lose my sanity.
You see, this blog has been a place for me to tell stories but it has also been a place for me to get angry - to shout about crappy social care, uncaring and criminal nursing homes, the misuse of our service and, indeed, the mistakes that I think the government and our own management have made.
But of late I've come to realise that getting angry about things doesn't matter, not really.
I can shout all I like, rant and rave, fill in paperwork and publicise things on this blog - and the net result of all that energy, strain and anger is precisely ni...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - March 17, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Ambulance News Source Type: blogs
4/365 Vacation ala Stinky SteveEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 16, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: 365 Photo Quest Source Type: blogs
Trust Is A CurrencyEmail this article to a colleague.
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When we think of currency we tend to think of money. Some of the more intellectual or business minded in the group may also ponder time, resources and commodities as well.
Anything that can be traded between humans that has value or worth is a currency. If it holds mutual value and can be offered or denied, it’s a currency.
Trust is a currency. You may not have ever thought of it that way, but it is. It’s the currency that underlies all others. Take away trust and the dollar becomes worthless, our time becomes meaningless (to others) and our resources don’t matter.
Power and authority are currencies as we...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 16, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else Source Type: blogs
Hanging by a threadEmail this article to a colleague.
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As the shift came to an end tones dropped. Surprisingly, it was our unit that was called to service. Dispatch advised a vehicle had run off the road on the interstate, but the dispatcher stated that she had just come on shift and was unfamiliar if maybe this was an abandoned vehicle that had crashed the night before. We went en route, assuming that someone had consumed a few too many, wrecked, then taken off on foot. We see that a lot- if they don't get caught behind the wheel, then leaving the scene of an accident is a lesser charge than DUI. We had to go north then turn around to get to the advised location, and as we cr...
Source: Firefightin' soccer mom - March 16, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Peanut Butter Fudge and TraditionEmail this article to a colleague.
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We would fight to scrape the pan and eat the melt-in-your-mouth fudge bits left after mom was done. After it cooled, the fudge squares were dumped over a huge bowl of popcorn which four small children devoured during the annual playing of “The Wizard of Oz,” on television in the days before VCRs or streaming video.
As an adult, who moved back home against all odds, my life is now more about reliving the traditions created for my siblings and I by my mother.
This winter, I spent countless hours with Ben trying to remember the names of the birds which swarmed our feeders. With my mother’s cancer treatme...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 16, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Deep Thoughts Mom's Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
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Well, I did it this time. I’m walking at the Komen 3-Day this summer. Martha decided that she wanted to walk this year and she talked me into doing it with her. For those of you not familiar with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-day, it is a huge event, held in 14 cities across the United States between the end of July and the end of November. Three years ago was Martha’s and my first year involved with this event; she walked and I worked as a member of the medical crew. Last year we both worked on the medical crew. This year we’re both walking. Not only am I walking, but I’m also training. We started abo...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - March 16, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
3/365 Flips, Farmers’ Almanac and the Ides of MarchEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 16, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: 365 Photo Quest Source Type: blogs
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Sorry folks, another crosspost from Paper Not Included, my mea culpa this time is that I'm recuperating from a pair of nightshifts that were less that smooth. Something ambulance based tomorrow though.
Windowing makes ebooks more like DVDs than CDs
I got into a discussion on Twitter last night with someone who I respect about ebooks, made slightly difficult by constraining myself to 140 characters and by fitting my tweets around work. And it being silly o'clock in the morning when my brain turns, not so slowly, to mush.
He was suggesting that when you buy a hardback book there is within it a 'scratch panel' with a code fo...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - March 15, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Things That Amuse Me... Source Type: blogs
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I am jonesing for family time. I dont know how else to put it. I talked to my Mom and Dad on the phone last night and daily text my sisters. I follow the lives of my brother and his wife and kids on their blog, thanks to my SIL for keeping that up! I don't really keep tabs on the other brother, read his wife's FB every now and then. I promised myself I would have more family time this year, but I havent been home since Christmas. I am making time next month to drive home and spend 2 days there. I miss my baby sister, I miss my dad, my neice, nephew, everyone! Just a few more weeks and hopefully I will get to see all ...
Source: Stephanie's Blog - March 15, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: family Source Type: blogs
2/365 Breakfast BeerEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 15, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: 365 Photo Quest Source Type: blogs
DisclaimersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many months ago, my blog came into question. It didn’t come into question because of something I wrote, or someone I offended. It was, however, under scrutiny by the powers-that-be.
That process, quite frankly, took the wind out of my writing sails. From day one, my writing centered around how much I loved my job, where I worked and the people I work with. It was difficult feeling as thought I needed to defend myself, my writing, and in some ways, who I am.
I am thrilled that after the recent publication of the social media policy, I can now say that I work for Aero Med in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I have, as you will ...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 15, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
1/365 Just Another Day at the DZEmail this article to a colleague.
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Emergency Procedures Skydiving Style (Source: crzegrl, flight nurse)
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - March 14, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: 365 Photo Quest Skydiving Source Type: blogs
L.C.E.S. For EMT’sEmail this article to a colleague.
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Some of you who are familiar with wildland firefighting are already well versed in the safety acronym L.C.E.S. It was developed in 1981 and continues to be taught in wildland firefighting curriculum as a handy checklist of things we should have in place when operating in dangerous environments where conditions can change fast.
L.C.E.S. came about when retired U.S. Forest Service Superintendent Paul Gleason looked at fatal fires over the previous 20 years and identified the four elements most likely to save your butt when stuff goes really wrong. The acronym he created is simple and it works.
In wildland firefighting change...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 13, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Knowledge Source Type: blogs
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I'm heading out for a week of knocking around the Near East. Nothing EMS related, just going to visit some pals. Probably won't be any posts until I get back. See ya!--maddog (Source: MaddogMedic)
Source: MaddogMedic - March 13, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: --maddog Source Type: blogs
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I’m in Berlin for the weekend, bo ambulance stories here, just me, eating sausages and drinking beer. Have fun without me! (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - March 12, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Away from home Source Type: blogs
To Walk or Not To Walk?Email this article to a colleague.
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The Happy Medic (THM) recently posted a fantastic topic on his blog. I love diving into controversial decisions that we have to make every shift. Here’s one of those questions that we need to answer on just about every call. Should we walk the patient to the pram or carry them?
This is one of those things that we have no choice but to address in every system on just about every call. How to we get the patient to the pram? When is it OK to walk them?
It seems like this subject got rolling on Justin’s (THM) blog when EMS types from around the country started sending him feedback about his role in the documentary...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 11, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Knowledge Assessment patient patient assessment patient care policy Source Type: blogs
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Not this coming summer, anyway… Rockingham Park is not going to have any live harness racing for the 2010 summer season. I’m sad about that. This would have been my eighth season working on the EMS crew there. And there are a lot of people I will miss. The reason is because the NH Legislature voted not to fund regulation or enforcement of live racing in the 2009 session. And for Rockingham Park to pay for it would cost in excess of $500,000.00. Who can afford that? So – approximately 100 people – including myself – will be out of jobs this summer. And it’s not even that I really need the work; I don’t. There ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - March 11, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
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I had made some raspberry ice cream with dark chocolate chips. I brought it in to work to share with my fellow medics and the ER staff. My Saudi paramedic partner is amazed that I can cook and loves the soup and bread I've brought in to work. The ice cream prompts the following from him:"How come you only have one wife? Chicks dig this kinda stuff, you know?"I swear, the funny moments are going to kill me.--maddog (Source: MaddogMedic)
Source: MaddogMedic - March 11, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: --maddog Source Type: blogs
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I have a lot going on between now and Friday. And that doesn’t include all of the stuff that continues to go on with my family. First, I’m taking a brief break from studying. I have a lab practical Friday night that I’m preparing for. I know – the dreaded practical exam. Last semester I had so much trouble with the first one that I thought I would lose my mind, not to mention my temper. But I got through it. And I got through the one after that. So it remains that I will get through this one. Fortunately the material is stuff that I’m comfortable with; identifying the organs associated with the Endocrine system a...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - March 10, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
Unwarranted Uncharitable ThoughtsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The first job of the day was to 'female slipped on ice - police on scene'.
I'll admit that, at half past six in the morning my thoughts towards people, actually towards anything, are often less than charitable.
'It's not that cold', I said to my crewmate - although years of working in all weathers mean that I'm perhaps not best placed to judge, 'I bet she's found the one tiny patch of ice in Newham and fell on that'.
It's the end of the financial year, and so there are roadworks and temporary traffic lights everywhere, unbeknownst to us there was also a 'fun run' in the area - no-one had told us road staff about it. So it ...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - March 10, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Ambulance Things That Amuse Me... Source Type: blogs
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I’m walking to reception in A&E when a little white coat walks past me at somewhere between elbow and shoulder height. The badge of the medical students, it’s ironic that nowadays the “doctor’s white coat” is only worn by people who are doctors to be, they shed it once they pupate into qualified staff.
I say hello as I pass and he squeaks back at me.
“Morning.”
I laugh and shake my head.
“You guys make me feel older every day, Jesus…what year are you in?”
“Fourth year.”
So he’s twenty-two, but looks younger.
Wait.
Looks much younger.
And sho...
Source: Trauma Queen - March 10, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
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thats the only word I could come up with when I read about this...Talk about an interesting call.... (Source: Stephanie's Blog)
Source: Stephanie's Blog - March 10, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: EMS Source Type: blogs
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We get a call for car vs. pedestrian right near the clinic. The caller reports that the victim is dead. Since it's quiet in the ER (no patients), the attending doctor decides to jump on board. The accident has occurred in a small area right outside the compound called "the Village." It's a collection of houses and shops that evolved from a squatters camp many years ago. Some of the houses are pretty nice now and there can be seen a few expensive cars parked here and there.As nice as some of the houses are, the side streets are still mostly sand and gravel, there's no real street lighting and the one main road that goes thr...
Source: MaddogMedic - March 10, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: --maddog Source Type: blogs
Search Keywords, Oh my!Email this article to a colleague.
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I use a software to track visitors to my blog. It gives me all kinds of useful information, including what search terms people entered that brought them to my site. Often they relate to EMS, sometimes people find me who were looking for another "maddog" and, every once in a while, I get a doozy.Here's my favorite from this week:"i am pee out of the wrong hole is that okay"We live in a strange world. --maddog (Source: MaddogMedic)
Source: MaddogMedic - March 10, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: --maddog Source Type: blogs
5 Hard Questions EMS 2.0 Will Need to AddressEmail this article to a colleague.
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life… as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
- Booker T. Washington
With multiple premiers of The Chronicles of EMS and a wave of enthusiasm from the EMS Today conference in Baltimore, the future of EMS looks bright, blindingly-bright. I’m incredibly optimistic about where this crazy experiment in EMS is headed, but I also see some big hurdles in our path.
Put on your shades and let’s talk about what I feel are the five biggest challenges to EMS reform.
1.) We’ve been talking a lot about u...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 9, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else EMS ems 2.0 future question system abuse Source Type: blogs
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Ask me anything http://formspring.me/wvmedicgirl (Source: Stephanie's Blog)
Source: Stephanie's Blog - March 9, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
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I really like I.T - Information Technology, after all I've been using it since I was around eight years old. However, in those thirty years of using computers I'm also fully aware of some of the problems that I.T can make manifest.
Especially when you bring in the cheapest contractors, don't supervise them properly, don't consult properly with the people to be using the system and then start cutting budgets halfway through the project.
*cough* NHS *cough*
I mean, if you can't get contractors who are skilled enough to stick linoleum to the floor, how can you trust your commissioning people to find someone good enough to do ...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - March 8, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Ambulance News Source Type: blogs
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I’m outside the house, juggling defib and response bag onto their respective shoulders when I realise I’ve failed to lock the car.
Never mind the morphine…my laptop’s in the front seat.
Pulling the key from my pocket it snags on the tourniquet that’s also in there, I tug harder to free it and it leaps, like a beatific tree frog, into the air. Spins, twinkles in the street lights and lands with a “chink” onto the cover of the storm drain by my right foot.
Balances.
Stays.
I’m reaching down to retrieve it, encumbered by the heavy plastic defib on my shoulder, when the key smil...
Source: Trauma Queen - March 8, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
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I am so new to this blogging thing. Or at least I feel so new. I have been reading the numerous posts that resulted from the biggest fire/ems blogger meet up ever and it just makes me feel like a very small part of such a huge thing. While I was like the teeny bopper meeting a rockstar or a movie star, every single person I met was so nice. I got hugs from people who I have been follwing online for ages. I know they had no idea who I was and I am sure they will be quick to forget that they even met me, they have forever made an impression on me. And while I feel I made several new network contacts, I know I made one new fr...
Source: Stephanie's Blog - March 8, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: #CoEMS #EMSToday Source Type: blogs
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The news tonight of a paramedic killed simply because he was doing his job has really hit me hard. I can't imagine, trying to help a suicidal pt, trying to convince them that life is worth living, to have them attack you and ultimately kill you. I have been in EMS for about 7 years. I have not seen many gruesome things, I have not run many "bad" calls. I consider myself blessed for this. It keeps me loving this job, being the "sparky medic". I am far from burnout at this point thanks to this. The down side is when I do get one of those career or life alterating calls how will I do? Will I be prepared? Will I know what to d...
Source: Stephanie's Blog - March 8, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: life EMS Source Type: blogs
Should Oscar Romero Be Canonized?Email this article to a colleague.
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On March 24th it will be the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He was the Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980. On the day he was assassinated he was celebrating Mass and he was reportedly shot to death during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. His blood was said to have spilled on the altar. Pope John Paul II named Romero a “Servant of God” in 1997. This is the first step on the road to sainthood. For him to be beatified and later canonized, he would have to be declared a martyr and hero. The investigation into these issues continues to this day. Should he be declared either a martyr...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - March 6, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
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“30 YOF cardiac arrest” and I’m running fast, the rear of the car stuttering and shimmying through the lights at Tollcross as I push the accelerator a little too hard. One day I’ll find out what happens when I actually floor the gas pedal in this thing.
So far I’ve been too scared of it.
Thirty year old women shouldn’t arrest, but if they do, we stand a good chance of reversing it.
If I get there fast enough.
Driving the RRU is, it has transpired, very different from driving an ambulance. A larger vehicle uses its lights to invite other users to make way, to pulll in and allow forward ...
Source: Trauma Queen - March 6, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Ambulance Source Type: blogs
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A good friend of mine is being sued by a former patient. I don’t know if that statement gives you anxiety the way it gives me anxiety. I’ll admit it, I have an underlying fear of having to defend myself and my actions in a court of law.
I’m not scared of being held accountable for the medical decisions I make. I feel that I tend to make fairly good decisions, thank you very much, but the legal process can be expensive. And let’s be honest…because this is just you and me talking right? Sometimes the right thing to do is far from clear.
In a court of law, everyone is allowed the benefit of month...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 6, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else Source Type: blogs
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The cinema is deserted when we walk in, just a girl lying on the steps in the centre aisle, Cubics the RRU Paramedic crouching by her, a huddle of concerned friends and a young man looming over the lot of them.
I head up the stairs and, before Cubics can start his handover, the standing man is in my face.
“I’m one of the doctors at A&E.”
Look him up and down. Don’t recognise him.
Odd.
“It’s a simple enough case for you, this is a female who’s suffered a vaso-vagal episode.”
He pauses while I stared dumbfounded at him, Cubics grinning from ear to ear at his back, not bot...
Source: Trauma Queen - March 4, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Thrilling Installment Source Type: blogs
The February EMS RoundupEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
– Linda Ellerbee (American Journalist)
And what better way to bring the EMS world together than the Internet? February was full of news and fun at The Spot. I hid inside from the Colorado cold and wrote about how to set up an IV line firefighter style. I asked you if you knew what was in the last issue of Splatter. (If you subscribed you’d know!) We discussed tips for mastering the head-to-toe assessment and getting people to hang up their cell p...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 4, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: Everything Else EMS ems roundup Source Type: blogs
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It’s interesting how much the arrival of a newborn into one’s home can change a family’s dynamics. Not in a bad way, of course. But things are a little different now. We’ve had to modify some of our daily routines a little bit. And I think this will continue to play itself out over the immediate future. The first couple of nights were pretty challenging for Kerry and Scotty. Turns out they were worried about waking Martha and me up over the middle of the night. That’s not a problem, as far as we’re concerned, though; their first priority needs to be to take care of the baby. And if they need help, all they need...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - March 3, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
I’m A FirefighterEmail this article to a colleague.
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I don’t know if you knew that. It’s entirely possible that you missed it on the about page. If it seems strange that a firefighter would create a blog called The EMT Spot, consider that the fire service employs more EMTs than any other agency or industry. (Including private ambulance service.)
I didn’t begin my career as a firefighter but I’ll certainly end my career as one. I think I always knew that was the case. I’m a firefighter for a lot of good reasons.
I’m a firefighter because I believe in the honor, the history and the tradition of the American Fire Service.
I’m a firefi...
Source: The EMT Spot - March 2, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else Source Type: blogs
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Meh, f. it. Too much angst and tooth gnashing around here. The sun is shining and a woman in Greece just fixed all my iPhone worries.
Have me, O and N, kicking it happy-style. (Source: Trauma Queen)
Source: Trauma Queen - March 2, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Photos Photography Source Type: blogs
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As I am a complete nerd, I have email alerts set up for various topics spoken about in government. Often I don't have the chance to read them but, being stuck alone on station last night, I had the time and the good luck to read on such discussion.
This was a discussion about encouraging people to 'self care' their minor ailments. There was no mention of ambulances, the discussion centred mostly on the role that Pharmacists, GPs and Practice Nurses have to play. After all the government has no idea what us ambulance people do - I'm sure they think we only go to car crashes, heart attacks and the sort of thing you see on 'C...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - March 2, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Ambulance Things That Amuse Me... Source Type: blogs
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(Slept too late - so no time to blog for both Paper Not Included and here - so here is what I've written over there)
Publishers are missing the two important things that they should have for every ebook release.
Ease of access and wide access.
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Ease of Access
Why do I use iTunes to download my music instead of torrent sites? Why do I pay for albums instead of typing "band name + torrent" into Google?
First - because it is wrong and illegal, but secondly and perhaps, for many people, more importantly it's because iTunes is easy. I can buy an album with one click - I don't have to worry about it being in an odd...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - March 1, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Source Type: blogs
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(Source: DTsEMT)
Source: DTsEMT - March 1, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: dtsemt Tags: Cartoon Source Type: blogs
Deekie, Ay?Email this article to a colleague.
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Sixteen years old, just round the corner from these clowns a month ago. I shivered when the name of the district came up on my screen - working alone in a Rapid Response Unit I’m supposed to think a little harder before storming into less desirable areas. No mate behind you to watch your back or second set of six senses letting you know that things have turned south.
I park up at a six-in-a-block, this corner of the estate small and clear enough for my back-up crew to see the vehicle from the passing road, no need to leave the roof lights and red strobes to guide them in. From the boot I swing the response bag over my...
Source: Trauma Queen - February 28, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Thrilling Installment Ambulance Source Type: blogs
The Baby Has ArrivedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Peyton Elizabeth Sayball. Born at 9:19PM February 27, 2010. She is 20 inches long and weighed in at 6 lbs., 10 oz. She and her mother are doing just fine. And the photo is of her visiting with her grandmother. (Source: Life in Manch Vegas)
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - February 28, 2010 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs
