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Hopefully, the Bogota Ambulance Corps is next in the line of march and not riding the roof of the bus.

Probably the Bogota First Aid Squad if were talking about jersey.

What does everyone about air bag containment devices such as this one manufactured by Hurst? These products are applied over the steering wheel and allegedly protect first responders from the sudden deployment of an undeployed air bag.

After doing a little research general internet consensus seems to be that these are ineffective and not proven to work. Does anyone have any thoughts or more importantly any links to studies performed with these devices?

Even if you are already at the station, you still had to get there...

While I commend Mohegan VAC for recognizing that they cannot sufficiently staff their ambulance during the day with volunteers and using supplementary paid staff, I am disappointed to see that Mohegan VAC did not hire these employees themselves and choose to outsource to Empress. While I recognize that it would be more work for Mohegan to hire their own staff, I think it overall it would be more beneficial to those who staff their ambulance and the EMS community as a whole.

How did TransCare get mixed up in the organ transplant business?

I'm curious to hear what process agencies use to clear their new EMTs and ensure they are ready to run a call on their own.

One agency in which I belong to requires you to be supervised by another EMT until the captain feel you are ready. In the other agency I ride with, a written report is filled out after each supervised call you run and the cleared EMTs meet periodically to review the reports and decide when someone is ready.

How is it done where you ride?

Irvington VAC is doing a refresher over the summer. Detials are on www.irvingtonvac.blogspot.com

I recently found out that the federal government will fly you out to Nevada and pay for your food and hotel (in Las Vegas), if you to attend a 4 day course on WMDs.

The details can be found here: http://www.ctosnnsa.org/

Has anyone attended one of these classes?

No-help EMTs back on job - http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/no_help_emts_back_on_job_upunKOwU5Pi7NX8bLC2H8M

The two coldhearted EMTs suspended for refusing to help a pregnant woman suffering a fatal seizure in a Brooklyn coffee shop return to work today, sources said.

My guess is that if helicopter use has decreased, it is because ground crews have decided that it would be faster to transport the patients by ground vs waiting for the helicopter to arrive from its now more distant location. Doesn't say anything about it being unnecessary before.

Looks too large to me.

This issue has been beaten discussed before and imho beaten to death.

Volunteer Chief's Cars- perk being abused?

The sooner we recognize we are not cops or firefighters the better EMS will be. Cops and firefighters enter dangerous situations to save lives. We go near dangerous situations and wait for the police or firefighters to do their thing. Yes, sometimes poo spills over and we get caught up. But so do ER docs and nurses. In my opinion, the solution is to better integrate EMS into the healthcare system. Rather than just being a taxi service EMS has to be empowered to tell people no and treat minor problems without transporting everyone.

I agree and disagree. I agree that it is not our job to go into dangerous situations, but often times something that appears trivial can become dangerous fast. Furthermore, there are dangers associated with EMS that doctors and nurses do not face, such as the risk of an MVA, increased risk to blood borne pathogen exposure and being in a confined space with a sick and possibly contagious person.

I found this on http://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c005/sc02/index.shtml

§ 636. Murder in the first degree; class A felony. (a) A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when:

[...]

(4) The person recklessly causes the death of a law-enforcement officer, corrections employee, fire fighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, fire marshal or fire police officer while such officer is in the lawful performance of duties;

So not quite sure what the article is getting at.

I agree really ugly.

What's that in the left side of the trunk?

Vaccines are responsible for the elimination polio. The concept worked then and it should again now.

Already got mine. The government has assured us it is safe and my doctor is recommending it. It's been out for a while now and no unusually adverse reactions yet.

WCC is greenburgh's jurisdiction?

Any ambulances have this? I think its a great idea.

What agencies/hospitals in the Westchester/NYC/Rockland area offer regular EMT CME classes?

I've passed that truck before, always wondered what HNT stands for.

Some differences in numbers, such as the cut off of when to administer nitro. For the NREMT test, follow whats written in your EMT book.

Also, the NREMT exam is a computerized exam. You have a time limit (I forgot how long) but you do not know how may questions you will receive. The test ends when the system has determined that you passed or failed, so its hard to budget your time.

Let me know if you have any other questions, I took the NREMT exam last summer.

Sounds like a lot of nonsense to me. The private company's emt's/paramedics should be able to handle a call just as well as an FDNY provider.

This seems impractical to me. Transport would be delayed until the "ambulance" could be filled with 44 patients. This could take hours.