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I'm in awe. I'd LOVE to see how they orchestrated that.

Site seems pretty organized, tho could use a little more color/flash. Would you be open to having an ouside designer take a look at it? I know this guy that could probably spice it up a bit while maintaining the feel of the layout. I like the shadow effect on some of the titles but does the shadow seem a little too far offset? Maybe have the shadow closer to the letters (a little closer to noon than sunset) so it's easier to read?

Wait. Seth has a girlfriend?!?!? (When do you find the time!) When do we get to see pictures of HER?

And in a true EMD system you don't send medics to every single call that gets dispatched.

You have a valid point that attaching the AED and having it analyze would be a going step in treating the patient. But I fail to see how you would use the AED to determine if the patient had a pulse.

Only time I ever dropped a patient was when we were wheeling the stretcher sideways and we hit a crack in the asphalt. Don't ever do it. Always wheel the stretcher parallel with an invisible line drawn through the stretcher from head to toe. There is much less chance of it toppling that way. Also, after the last investigation I saw after a dropped patient, it was determined that most people wheel the "one and half man stretchers" in the highest position it will go. According to the manufacturers this is incorrect. These stretchers should only be at the top (or loading position) when being loaded into the ambulance. (You can tell because instead of being flush with the ground, the head end will be higher than the feet end.) Minor nit-pick on the part of management, but an interesting point none the less.

Last PCP user I dealt with didn't have the so called super-human strength. Call came in as a person who was "passing out". Family didn't know what was going on with him. Thought maybe he was diabetic. He had periods where he'd go from out cold to wired (waxing and waning delerium). It wasn't until we got to the hospital that his GF revealed he was doing dust.

"Next stop, Elmsford. I think."

There used to be EMT-E's too....but hey...what's in a letter?

I've had QA/QI reviews of calls I have done go so far as to say that the WCREMSCO protocls DO NOT allow you to do anything beyond what the medical control options state. Meaning if it is not a standing order or a M/C option, then it can't be done. EVEN IF the M/C doctor says you can. Which I think is BS. It's a VERY literal translation of the protocols and if you look at them it can definatly be interpretted that way. This is a perfect example of something in the protocols that may need to be modified next revision. BTW...for those interested....the call was a Labetalol usage. Patient with 180/110 B/P. Called for orders, got initial push of 20mg Labetalol per M/C doctor. I got gigged because 1) according to protocol "hypertensive crisis" is defined as diastolic of over 120 (mayo clinic and other say 110) and 2) according to M/C options, starting dose of Labetolol is 10mg (both drug insert and PDR state 20mg).

Jesus. Guess I missed that one. For some reason I thought they only had IO in the peds protocols. I'll have to keep that in mind JIC. Good call (on both notes). Bring that call to Don's attention. Would make a good call audit review.

Lifeline is easy to spot. They have the Vans that are painted to look just like FDNY buses.

Just curious if there are any agencies in the area (Westchester County and surrounding areas) that use Polaroid cameras or the like to capture pictures of scenes of personal injury to send to the hospital with the patient to give ED staff a better idea of mechanism. I know of only one agency off the top of my head that carries Polaroid cameras in thier ambulances for just this purpose (mostly used to take pictures of accident scenes to send along to the ER with the patient). Does anyone else do the same or similar?

Really? Interesting news. Can you provide some supporting documentation? (URL, etc). Thanks.

NO YES NO YES YES

K - Go ahead. Used to tell the station you are working you expect him to transmit now. Use after a CQ to invite someone to answer you. Do not use K after you answer someone's CQ since you don't know he is going to answer you, use AR. HW? AR KB2PQE DE KC2NDA K

I tried it in Windows Media Player which SHOULD automatically try to find any missing codecs. It didn't appear to try....and the codec appliance I have doesn't work with .WMV files. (Gspot)

I can't get the thing to play.

Aw crap. Great. Just as they seemed to at least start playing some decent stuff, they go off and change the format. I'll stick to my CDs and internet radio thanks.

When I went to Hawaii, I flew from Newark to Honolulu on Continental for $485/pp Round Trip. That was a GREAT price. Now you can do RT from Newark to Maui (OGG) for about $700-800/pp. Still pretty decent.

No. The only extension site of WCC that offered any kind of EMT class was the Ossining site, but I believe they moved that back to the main campus several semesters ago.

Tell me about it. Until they get a route to there, Continental is your friend (non-stop from Newark to Maui - awesome).

You can also get a spellchecking plugin for Firefox. If people want more info I'll post it. Otherwise, google is your friend.

Update on Stroke Center progress. HVHC had thier site visit on Monday and word has it they have been granted approval. Just waiting on the final blessing in writing from DOH. NWHC was to have thier visit this week but it was rescheduled to next week. They hopefully won't be far behind. Only CVA patient I've had in recent weeks did not meet criteria (symptoms started the night before) so I haven't had any problems or even heard of problems with Medical Control overriding the protocol and isisting on transport to local facility. If it does happen tho, just document it well and let your supervisor know.

http://www.fazed.org/video/view/?id=104