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Nope, AAA.

Duracell donated a huge box of AA batteries to a fire house near me. Not a single thing in that house ran on AAs. SCBAs: 9 volt, Smoke Detectors for public: 9 volt Nice gesture, but totally worthless.

-No -Yes they do and whenever they can. -I bet they would to but until that starts happening I will give the ED my pts DOB and initials to help ease the transition of care anyway I can.

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So you just kind of show up and hope they have a bed available for your pt?

Our billing (Private and non-for-profit EMS).

Pt initials. Provide them to registration/intake. Allows ED to prepare charts if it is a frequent flier and allows PT demographic (Face) sheets to be completed sooner allowing for quicker billing. Typical report would be: XYZ Agency ambulance en route to ABC ED with male J.D. 3/12/43, stable, on 4 lpm O2. This gives the radio room an idea who is coming in and give a bed assignment, gives the ED staff time to prepare for the pt and gets the ball rolling on getting the billing sheet.

Chief complaint Vitals (Stable vs. Unstable) Initials Sex DOB Interventions Anything further? Anything more ties up airspace/phone lines, distracts you from the pt and distracts the ED from doing its job.

1. No such thing as a AEMT-I. There is the new NRAEMT or the older NREMT-I'85 or NREMT-I'03 and NREMT-I'99. Under current NREMT guidelines, NREMT-I'85 or NREMT-I'03 transition to NRAEMT while NREMT-I'99 transition to NREMTP. NREMT-B transition to NREMT. 2. An NRAEMT course is 4 months of class at 8 hours a week along with 20+ hours of clinical hours here in VT. From start to finish the quickest I have seen it completed is 7 months and that was by those who work in the hospital in which they did their clinical hours in. 3. The reason why there is only EMT-B and EMT-P in the Lower Hudson Valley and Westchester is because there is no reason to add a scope of practice between EMT-B and EMT-P when the region is flooded with EMT-Ps. Where I am in VT, we have NRAEMTs because there is exactly 4 EMT-Ps on duty at a time for a population the size of Westchester. NRAEMTs are used to bridge the level of care between EMT-B and EMT-P when no EMT-Ps are available (or refuse to provide DHS mandated intercepts, however that is another monster to deal with). 4. Take your NRAEMT course upstate where A. They use the certification and have written protocols B. The use NRAEMT is more standard allowing you to embrace your role as a NRAEMT and not be a really smart and well trained EMT-B assisting an EMT-P.

Delivered: http://www.gowansknight.com/bedford%20ny%20custom%20rescue%20page%20113012.htm http://bedford.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/bedford-fire-department-gets-its-newest-truck

No love for the Caprice?

Yes, almost 2 years ago. Last one was purchased by KHP, see NYTimes article this week.

What are the roof crush standards? Where can I find them?

http://www.brunswickcountync.gov/Portals/0/bcfiles/admin/commissioners/meetings/archive/2008/admin_minutes_100608.pdf Page 8. A grant from FEMA for a Brunswick County, NC Medical Transport Bus will set the feds back $324k back in 2008. story here: http://charlotte.news14.com/content/top_stories/611351/mobile-evacuation-bus-expands-emergency-services

This will be a great resource no doubt however the star of life really should be blue. http://www.ems.gov/vgn-ext-templating/ems/sol/index.htm http://www.ems.gov/vgn-ext-templating/ems/sol/pages/Specifications.htm

So what is your recourse then?

After all the rash of police impersonators in Westchester, how does a civilian balance the fear of being pulled over by a police impersonator while also complying with an attempted traffic stop by a PO?

RIP

If releasing the photos gets him fired, you will not hear one word of protest from me. He made his bed, now he has to sleep in it. His photos did nothing to change my opinion of the Rolling Stone cover. I read the article and it is far from glamorizing of JT. I think the real problem is that the article humanizes and presents just how normal this guy was or seemed to be up until the moment the bombs went off. It is a lot easier to condemn JT to all sorts of extralegal torture when you do not have to look at him in the face. This article forces you to look into his face and people have a hard time reconciling their thoughts when they realize he is human too.

Quick thought experiment: I randomly walk up to on the street and start following and start a fight (note: I make sure I tuck my gun in my waistband before I approach you). You, being randomly attack on the street, start to fight back and you know what you are bigger and stronger than I am thus you are able to pin me on the ground. I, seeing that I am losing the fight, the fight I started, pull my gun and shoot you in the chest. Did I shoot you in self defense (you were kicking my ass), or did I commit murder (I started the fight)? Granted my thought experiment is most likely not what happened (only GM knows) but it is certainly highlights the idea that provoking the fight does not necessarily mean that you get to shoot someone in the chest after they attack you.

And what may those be?

Yep, sorry for the frequent edits and poor phrasing, that should be fixed now.

Even EMTs can take AVET according to the state. Downloaded from http://www.dhses.ny.gov/ofpc/training/documents/trainingcatalog.pdf Untitled.tiff Untitled 2.tiff

Whether responding to a pt with burns or a pt with meningitis, had proper BSI been used (gloves, apron, shield, mask) by the responding company this would not have been an issue. BSI is for our protection as much as it is for our pts. We need to be protected from the meningitis pt and a burn pt needs to be protect from us, however both calls require the same BSI.

Spec'ing a new ambulance in the winter. Looking at our options and it looks like pickup cab will be our best bet (we went with a GMC 4500 in 2008 and it is quite frankly too big for our needs). We travel with large crews (3+) and would like a safer way to transport crew from the ED to base and from base to the call other than strapping the 3rd or 4th EMT in the back. This leads us to the 4 door cabs. The only concern we have is length, we would like to keep the box the same length as it has been for the past 4 generations. Does anyone have a spec for a 4 door ambulance. I would like to see the CAD spec if possible. Those of you that do operate out of 4 door ambulance (FDNY guys are the only ones I know of), pros, cons? Likes/Dislikes? Any responses would be greatly appreciated.