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AOL sucks. Find an ISP that doesn't clog your computer with a ton of crap and isn't so Nazi about it's access controls.

I dedicate this to our resident Jew - Skooter, and the rest of the Jewish on the boards. Happy Chanukah! http://www.americancomedynetwork.com/FLASH/my_menorah.htm

And I believe Number 1 from last year was in December.

Anyone know the results of the Mohegan Fire Commissioner election from tuesday night?

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I've had people ask me to move apparatus/wehicles on accident scenes but they were at least patient about it. This lady deserves at least a ticket.

Empress has a flycar in the Pelhams as well as a dual medic flycar in Yorktown.

Northern Westchester had thier site visit by DOH for Stroke Center certification. Should be soon that they can be added to the list.

Date: 12/4/2005 Time: 1638 hours Location: Crompond Rd @ Garden Lane Frequency: 46.26mhz Units Operating: Mohegan Fire, Mohegan EMS, 34Medic1, 39Medic1 Description Of Incident: Serious MVA with multiple patients and entrapment. Call for medivacs unsuccessful - closest available was Lifestar from Hartford. Later all medivacs reported down due to weather. 34Medic1 on location reports traumatic arrest. Writer: WAS967 1638 - Initial Call via Phone from NYSP. 1640 - Mohegan EMT on location. 1642 - NYSP updating multiple injuries, 1 unconscious, 1 pin. 1643 - YPD requesting additional ambulance and medic. 1644 - 34Medic1 responding. 1646 - 69Bravo3 responding. Air1 requested. Unavailable. 1649 - Lifestar requested, down due to weather. 69Bravo2 responding. 1651 - 34Medic1 on location. 1652 - Utility 40 on location. 1657 - 34Medic1 reporting traumatic arrest. 1703 - 69Bravo3 transporting to WMC. 1704 - 75Bravo3 on location. 1705 - 40EMS (WEMS?) responding. 1706- 69Bravo2 with 34Medic1 transporting to HVHC (Traumatic Arrest?) 1714 - 2261 requesting Peekskill and Putnam Valley Ambulances. 1716 - 75Bravo3 with 39Medic1 on board transporting to WMC. 1721 - County Car 2 responding. 1725 - 40EMS on location. 1741 - 75Bravo3 out at WMC with 39Medic1. (Information on some parts was sketchy. If you have additional, please PM me and I'll add/edit.)

I had that in Buchanan once. Lady called for a tooth ache or some problem with a filling or what have you. Her DMD was around the corner but closed for lunch. We stopped by and told them the situation and they took her right in for an emergent visit. Patient triaged to DLS.

How do you go about getting the officer to relinquish his/her weapon(s)? Most officers I know would opt not to go with the patient than to go weaponless. Perhaps some of the law officers on here could provide some feedback on this? Smart move. We had this debate at work once before and it boiled down to this. We as EMTs are not trained to properly restrain patients. How many agencies have P&Ps regarding restraining uncooperative patients? None that I know of. (I'd like to see some if anyone knows otherwise). It doesn't get simpler unfortunatly, but rather, more complex. You can do something, in fact, in a lot of case we HAVE to do something. If you are called to deal with a patient that does not want to go (anywhere), and you suspect that the patient may be a danger to self or others, you are obligated to see that patient is seen to treatment. If you have to call PD then by all means, get them involved. IF they have to arrest the patient and toss them into a patrol car in 4points and transport them to an acute psych center that way, then so be it. At least they are going to be cared for.

Well as for the brothers Lowenheim, Danny is living upstate with his wife and two? kids (he used to work with us at WEMS, doing a double and triple in two days then commute 8 hours home). And yup, Jeff is on here trolling from time to time. He's out in Oregon. Not sure what he's up to. Maybe he'll see this and chime in. As for the family (Dawsons), Mike is to my knowledge working as a medic for GPD. He still lives in the area with wife and baby. I last saw Billy in White Plains working as a contractor for a roofing company (no doubt making way more than he was in EMS). Dave still does the manager thing for Transcare to my knowledge, tho I have not seen him in ages. No idea what the sisters are up to. Someone once said Abbey was in the blood. I think all of us who worked there gained something tremendous from the experience. I'm sure Finn McCool's would love to see everyone for a reunion. ;-)

The review at a recent call audit regarding the use of an IO in an adult met with some disfavor in the two doctors that were there. Most seemed surprised that there was any reasonable patency in a the tibia of a person that age. Thier sites of choice seemed to be the sternum or the pelvic crest, tho we're not trained to access those sights so it's a moot point. Perhaps if we had the newer IO guns or sternal access, we'd have more options available. They also stated that the use of IO on adults per protocol one was a very liberal interpretation, but there is nothing there that implicitly disallows it. (I guess for a change it's an ommission that works in our favor. Both newer IO access methods and more advanced airway methods (RSI) came up recently. Perhaps our new director can push for some more aggresive protocols for both.

At the moment, no. Right now these are just the new guidelines being released for review by anyone and everyone. None of the instructors have been updated to teach the new courses yet. (At least none that I know.) It's probably being disseminated to regional faculty now and the ITs and Instructors will soon follow. No idea if they have a set date to start teaching the new material.

Who knows. Maybe the new director will get it done. IT makes no sense to not have EMD.

I understand it being environmentally unfriendly? But it's against DOH policy?

Does FDNY cover all of Liberty Island? Or only part of it now that NY lost the fight to have Lady Liberty considered in NY?

Depends. Who are you? And you know where I am cheeky. Interesting note, I'd imagine he's still there. I found an article a few years back in the newspaper. Tim Smith (past Abbey supervisor) is working as a firefighter in Danbury. Joe "Slob" Salhab was seen today on CBS news wheeling a patient out of the White Plains federal courthouse. Apparently some high profile case. He's a supervisor now at Transcare. As is Pete Primrose. I ran into Darryl Pettigrew at St. Barnibas in the Bronx. He's still with FDNY but as a <GASP> medic! (I wonder if he still spends half his time running around white plains looking for his son?)

And she does it all with a cigarette in her mouth. Priceless.

I have an idea. Move to vbulletin, make me a SysOp and we can have a little fun with PHP.

The blue is definatly better than the grey on grey. One thing I would change tho is the bottom. Black on blue is hard to read.

How can you be so sure? The lawyers might see it differently. They'll try to pin death and disabiliuty on anything and anyone, no matter how far fetched it is. CYA!

I would have to disagree here. If we are given an order by Medical Control, common sense dictates that we should question it. But unfortunatly, WC protocols don't seem to be built on common sense but more on a "do what I say" mentality, where as if you are given an order, EVEN IF YOU DISAGREE WITH IT, you must follow. Previous protocols (and other regions) state that if you recieve an order that you do not agree with or feel can be detrimental to the patient you can opt to not follow and talk to the doctor at the hospital. Not so here. One of several things in the protocols that I don't like. Of course if said order falls outside your scope of practice (doctor says to perform C-Section, Amputation, what have you) then of course you can't follow that. As far as EMT-B's doing something outside of protocol: when the medic tells you to, thats iffy. Even medics are bound by BLS protocol (states so right in our ALS protocols). Yeah, not everything falls under protocol, and you have to use common sense and "street smarts" to get by sometimes. But if the medic ever tells you to do something, and you don't think that is right, you have an OBLIGATION to call them on it. Question the order. Just like we should in the above with medical control. And definatly document anything that fall outside of the norm. It's your best defense should anything arise from it.

Unfortunatly, EMD is not the standard at Somers FD. If they have it, it's from training they recieved elsewhere. (Unless this changed recently and I don't know about it). I don't know why EMD isn't used there. I even asked if there was going to be EMD training and the answer (under the old director) was flat out "No".

For the full set of guidelines, go HERE Most of you will be interested in Parts 3-6.