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  8. Posted

    Date: 05/02/2008

    Time: 2130 hrs

    Location: The George Washington University, Washington DC: 2121 H Street NW

    Departments: DCFD, GWU EMeRG, GWU UPD

    Description: Working fire in second story of dormitory, apparently started by an overheated air conditioning unit. 172 people evacuated. No injuries reported.

    Links: http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/stora...l-3363182.shtml

    Writer: gm911

  9. Posted

    Hey all, thanks for your replies...

    The CPR seat, though not always used for cpr, is great for members to do assessments and/or vitals while the medic starts a line on the other side. On another note, the school just purchased this vehicle for us, so they want nothing to do with it anymore unfortunately.

    The corporate idea is actually a new one that I've never heard of before, I'll definitely pass that one on. Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you think that there is any agency (who recently purchased a new rig) who would be willing to donate an ambulance to us??

  10. Posted

    So I have a question/favor for everyone....

    My college EMS squad is currently operating with a pretty old and crappy rig... It is not as small as a van, yet is not as big as some of the newer ones.... I'd classify it as type 2.5 :lol:

    It does not have a CPR seat, nor updated electronics or anything like the rigs back home.

    0qe72q9m.jpg <---The George Washington University's ambulance

    I was wondering if there is any program/agency/group that can help us get a newer, granted still "old", ambulance to put in service, possibly from an agency who has just replaced its ambulance with a new one. As a student-run organization, we have an extremely small amount of money in our budget, which goes towards restocking, oxygen, gas, etc. so purchasing a new one is not an option.

    If anyone has any information on how we can acquire a new "old" ambulance for little or no money, that would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

    Thanks a bunch!!!

  11. Posted

    I'd like to add my two cents...

    I had to do a double take when I saw this on the news last night. The news coverage also showed a video of two person adult CPR being performed on a streacher with just one hand???

    Not sure what video this is, but in a moving ambulance, I usually hold onto the ceiling rails with one hand and compress the chest with the other so that I have some grounding if the truck hits a bump, turns, or stops.

    As for the hands only CPR... When we compress the chest, we are NOT doing it in order to compress the heart and act as the Left Ventrical contraction. The reason that we are taught to compress the chest is to create a vacuum inside the chest wall in order to suck the blood out of the heart through the blood vessels. What the research is showing is that it takes approximately 30 compressions in order to create that vacuum. Except we are taught that once we hit 30, we are supposed to stop in order to ventilate, thus ruining the vacuum and having to start all over.

    Even if you recover from the full arrest with the slim chances... going X minutes without real oxygen movement, what good are you?

    When we breathe, we breathe in 21% oxygen. When we exhale, we exhale about 16%. So unless someone has a BVM with 100% o2 with a full chamber, it is a very minimal amount of o2 we are giving the pt anyway, much less than is needed to sustain life.

    I'm sure that someday soon we will be making the switch to continuous CPR, just like we are supposed to be doing once an advanced airway is in. This stuff is very interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing what changes are in store for us.

  16. Posted

    Here at The George Washington University, we have a pretty screwy system that I wish would change. If a University police officer sees someone who appears to be intoxicated on campus, they stop them and administer a field sobriety test, including breathylizer readings. If the individual either fails the sobriety test or if the second reading on the breathylizer is higher than the first reading, it's an automatic call to our student-run ambulance agency. Also, if someone is being assisted in walking by a friend, it's an automatic call as well.

    We do have medical amnesty, meaning that on the first time you are brought to the hospital, as long as you weren't doing any drugs as well, and were compliant with EMS and UPD, and you stay in the hospital until treated by a physician, there will not be a charge on your student judicial record. However, your parents will be called if under 21.

    The rule was supposed to encourage friends to call for help if their buddies were passed out, but it has turned into a game of cat and mouse, where University Police is on full patrol looking for intoxicated people to bust. I'm glad that there are several UPD officers who simply look the other way if there is someone who is obviously drunk, but obviously not a threat to anyone.

    Quick war story from last night.... got woken up at 3 am to the tones going off for an intoxicated student, when we got there it was a guy and his girlfriend who were fine except that they had been drinking within the hour, so their second breathylizer reading was higher than the first. Turns out they were celebrating their 1 year anniversary!! Too bad they spent the remainder of it in the hospital....

  18. Posted

    Possibly due to the fact that I am under 21, I think that the law should be changed to 18.

    But that's very unlikely to happen, so my practical opinion is to keep the drinking age 21, but also make it legal for military personnel under the age of 21 to drink with proof of military ID.

    A bunch of you are going to think I'm crazy for saying this, but I honestly think it's better to have drank at least a little bit in high school before going away to school. On my college EMS agency, the majority of alcohol poisonings we see are students who are away at a new place and consume alcohol for the first time. They do not know what their bodies can handle and do not have (dare I say...) experience in knowing what their limit is.

  19. Posted

    Under department policy, officers may engage in high-speed pursuits only if there is probable cause that the suspect used or threatened physical force or was involved in a hit-and-run accident resulting in serious injury or death.

    I wonder why they only chase cars in certain situations??

    Is this departmental policy over here too? I would think that if somebody is doing something illegal, they should face the penalty... honestly, this artice is pretty much suggesting I drive over to PG and, as long as I don't hit anyone along the way, drive as fast as I want without any risk of getting in trouble. :o

    Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I feel that cops should have every right to be in a high speed pursuit, under any and every circumstance!!

  20. Posted

    First off, and dont take offense to this brother, arent you a bit too young to be calling us naive for expressing our opinions?

    No offense taken, and no I don't think I'm too young. I grew up in a generation where we were taught to stand up for ourselves and to question authority...which I think is good. It's a pity that there are so many people who are scared to talk to police officers! I think that the whole "respect me by being scared of me" attitude is not fit for this generation.

    Nobody on here would EVER question or doubt all the incredible work cops put up with day after day. Everyday I work side by side some of the most intelligent, skilled, and caring people I have met, and am proud to say that they are great police officers. With all the violence and terror going on in the schools these days, I understand that even young children now pose a threat, but I still feel that this officer took things too far (threatening to "smack" the child because the 12 year old used the colloquialism "dude")

    Nearly all officers are outstanding, but as with any agency-EMS included- there will always be some bad apples. If there are no videos/checks to keep these few bad apples in check, what's to stop them from taking it another level?

    I'll say this- if there was no video, and a kid said that he was thrown to the ground by a cop, it would be extremely difficult to convince me to believe the kid...but these videos speak for those who can't speak up for themselves.

  21. Posted

    The problem with this site is that everyone on here is either a cop, or on great terms with POs and respect their authority because we are all on the same team. When I see this video, personally I am horrified. I have seen numerous, numerous instances of police officers abusing their power, yet when someone makes a complaint, there is no proof and nothing happens. Kids don't need to be scared, and whoever thinks that this kid is going to respect authority next time he sees a cop is just naive.

    There needs to be a way to keep a check on all civil servants. This way, citizens do not get abused and taken advantage of by THE FEW police officers who go overboard.

    You know what? I had some nasty things to say to you but I'm not going to do it. You have your opinion and you can have that. Life isn't living in a VAC, get out and see that the WORLD is not perfect and neither are the people in it. It must be tough being so perfect that you can judge a video you saw. PATHETIC.

    Oneeyed, you seem to have a problem with VACs. That's fine. But attacking another member is definitely not what this open forum is about. People will have differences in opinions...lets accept that, explain your side in a rational manner.

    I believe it is our duty to defend those who cannot defend themselves. This video does just that. Age should not be a decider in respect. If Tony Hawk was riding his skateboard I'm sure this would have gone down much differently. Just because the kids are 12 does not give the cop permission to go on a verbal rampage like he did.

  22. Posted

    just sickening.

    Three dead in Louisiana campus shooting

    BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.

    Investigators still did not have a motive for the early morning killings at the Louisiana Technical College in the state capital, Baton Rouge, police spokesman L'Jean McKneely told Reuters.

    Details such as the names of the victims and the type of weapon used have not yet been released.

    Blake Thibodeaux, 20, a drafting student at the college who was in a nearby classroom, said he heard what he initially thought was a door slamming and asked his teacher if he could investigate.

    "I ran towards it and was at the door of the classroom when she shot off the last few rounds," he said, adding that the other students streamed in terror out of the room, many crying.

    Police spent hours at the school gathering witness testimony and in the early afternoon were still not allowing people to enter the campus. Crowds of bystanders quietly milled around across the street.

    The shootings came just hours after a gunman killed two police officers and three city officials on Thursday night when he stormed into a city council meeting in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. He was later shot dead by police.

    Mass shootings are not particularly rare in the United States, where the gun-ownership lobby is politically influential and gun control is far less strict than in many countries. In the worst shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, a student with a history of mental illness killed 32 people at Virginia Tech university in April 2007 before turning one of his guns on himself.

    In December, a 19-year-old gunman in Omaha, Nebraska, killed eight people and then himself at a shopping mall. On Saturday, a man robbing a clothing store outside Chicago shot five women to death.

    (Reporting by Anna Driver in Houston, Ed Stoddard in Dallas; Writing by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Eric Beech)

  25. Posted

    Quick question of you NYS guys is your I program 200+hrs or more like the 400+hrs program.

    According to NYS DOH, regarding the EMT-I curriculum:

    "...It is estimated that the “average” program, with “average” students, will achieve “average”

    results in approximately 160-200 total hours of instruction (60-80 classroom/practical

    laboratory, 50-60 clinical, 50-60 field internship)..."

    http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/ems/pdf/emtioguide.pdf