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Product Showcase: OxyMask
Riddle me this, Batman: If you could replace every oxygen delivery device on your ammalance - every venturi mask, simple face mask, partial rebreather, nasal cannula and non-rebreather - and replace it with a device that does the work of all those things, is less claustrophobic for the patient, and prevents you from mistakenly checking your patient's testicles, would you do it? Yeah, I thought so.
What goes up: Four workers in Pompano Beach, Florida rescued from drawbridge that suddenly raised.
Workers trapped in the air over Intracoastal Waterway.
NIFC Predictive Services Wildland Fire Outlook March – June
The National Interagency Fire Center's Predictive Services office details the potential effect of El Nino this Spring for all regions of the U.S.
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EMS Comedy: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Atropine
The best bradycardia calls are for the patient passed out in the bathroom. You find them on the floor, cold and clammy, no pressure, pulse in the 20's. We used to give a full amp of Atropine, now we give 0.5, and if that doesn't work another 0.5 mg, etc. A couple times I have given the full 1 mg by mistake. Old dogs. Still the drug works well, the pulse picks up, the patient wakes up, the skin colors up and drys out and all is well in paramedic land. "You fixed them," the doctor says to me in the ED. Music to my ears.
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FDIC, But Only Closer
This year, avoid the airports and just get on the Capital Beltway.
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Lane-Changer Triggers Fiery Multi-Vehicle Wreck
The truck crashed into the jersey barrier splitting open the fuel tank and starting a diesel fire before the vehicles even came to a stop.
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Furthering Discussion of the Backstep Firefighter on the Houston LODD’s
I can only imagine that their last minutes on this earth were sheer terror and panic. I like to think that if I were in their shoes I would revert to training, experience, and knowledge and throw my brother firefighter over my shoulder and walk out the front door. However, we both know that we have gotten tunnel vision, fought panic and anxiety in situations less as life threatening as this.
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Fire/Rescue
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The Fire Critic
An Unadulterated View of the Fire Service - Firefighter humor, Videos, Technology, Fires, and everything in between
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Backstep Firefighter
To provide a point of critical thought about certain acts and events in the fire service while incorporating behavioral education and commentary in a referenced format.
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A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy
Discussing how to stay safe and prevent us from being our Own Worst Enemy.
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Raising Ladders
For anyone who ever wanted to grow up and become a firefighter... from someone who did just that.
EMS
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Life Under the Lights
This blog is about EMS, and one Paramedic's quest to make this the profession it deserves to be.
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The Happy Medic
Ever walked into a scene and said "You called 911...for this?" then you're in the right place.
