Posts Categorized: 911 Fail
GPS in the Ambulance – An overreliance on Ms. Kitty
Do you have a magical voice box on your dashboard that tells you where do go? Do lives depend on it?? Maybe you might want a backup plan.
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Wheel of the Regulars: Turn Turn Turn
Tonight is just one of those nights... However, I think I have come up with the next big hit in EMS gaming. What do you think?
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A Weighted Issue? A Burning Issue… Wow.
I’ve always said that I love EMS and that I’ve taken from it far more than I could ever give back to it. The same is true with this blog. From my readers and people who comment, I learn more than I can teach and enjoy more than I can entertain.
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Police Car Drivers, Ambulance Drivers, and their responsibilities
A news story I read on EMS1.com via Twitter today caught my interest. Can you identify the three professions in the picture before someone dies?
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A Slap in the Face to Paramedics Everywhere?
Maybe I'm way off base here, but I'm just plain ol' irate. I saw this ambulance on display at FDIC last weekend and I think it's a full-on slap in the face to paramedic types like myself. It's real, I took the picture myself.
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Foot-in-Mouth-Itis. Stupid Things We Say in EMS
Does your foot seem to have an oral fixation? Mine does. Sometimes I say some really stupid stuff. A letter I recieved from a "paramedic student" has gotten me thinking about some of those times.
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Red Lights to the Left of them, Blue to the right! – Coloring Emergency Lighting
Ever pull over for a tow-truck or a snow plow? What's up with the lack of a standard for emergency lighting colors? It's confusing as heck..
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Advances in Prehospital Analgesia and Conscious Sedation
From the Plover, WI Polytechnic Institute of Cosmetology and Cheese Making comes these handy tips for prehospital analgesia and anesthesia. Control all complaints of pain and induce sedation for RSI easily and cheaply.
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Saved by the Bell? High School Student EMS
Remember High School? I do. I was the geeky kid who did show choir. I played football too, though. I was young, naive, and inexperienced. I also desperately wanted to be on an ambulance before I was 18. Was that a good idea? Some communities are doing just that. I was for it... but should I have been?
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Fiddling While Rome Burns – The “Ambulance Industry”
If you read this piece and it ticks you off, I've accomplished something. We have to take ownership of our profession and our cause. It's always about the patient, but it's about us too... are we taking a cue from Emperor Nero?
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EMS Pay Sucks!! Part 2 – Identifying the problem
Part two in my audience participation exercize entitled "EMS Pay Sucks!! Let's DO something about it!" - This post is written for general audiences and states what exactly the problem is: The way we compensate EMS professionals in this country is despicable...
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Swinging a Sledgehammer and Thinking about the UK… Strange times
Good news! I'm embarking on a journey of self discovery! Wait.. no I'm not. I'm doing construction work! Aren't I supposed to be um, like... doing Paramedic type stuff? Hmmm... what would Mark Glencourse do?
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Guest Post – An Open Letter to Wisconsin Physicians Concerning Do-Not-Resucitate Orders
Do-Not-Resuscitate, or DNR orders, can be wonderful tools. However, physicians must provide the proper input and patient education in order to prevent tragic consequences - This is an open letter to Wisconsin Physicians written by a long-time paramedic.
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Dear State of Illinois EMS…
State of Illinois EMS... We have to have a little talk. Can we save our relationship?
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Someone Failed… Is it the System? Everyday EMS Ethics
A tempestuous night is blowing outside the station walls. The cold night air is stirred wildly, blowing splatterings of rain against the glass window of my bedroom. The wind howls through the trees conjuring up fantastic images of the disturbed environs …
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Hey NBC! I watched "Trauma" (Post #2)
Ok, so the first post was pretty reactionary.I'm right about the medical aspect of the show though. I don't know who your paramedic technical consultant is... but me thinks if he was really good at what he did there would be NO WAY that you would make su…
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CPR Fail – Shout out to Ambulancedriverfiles
http://ambulancedriverfiles.blogspot.com/2009/06/cpr-u-r-doing-it-rong.htmlKelly, over at Ambulancedriverfiles, has an interesting post. Like me, he uses Sitemeter to trak how many hits he gets, how those hits get to his site, and even the search terms i…
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I Don't tweet, but this is cool
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_media_2This is a link to a story on how Twitter and the Internet communication services are blasting through censorship. I like it.I wonder if people could tweet their calls, making it l…
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More on Socialized Medicine, the US State Run Media, and um.. just wow
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm Ok, I read Drudge. For those of you who don't, you should read this.Oh, and Happy Medic and Medic999 have AWESOME NEWS
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Heh heh heh – CNN fail – heh heh heh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10264398-2.htmlThe um, "twitterverse"? promotes the cnn fail.Yay! This is delicious.
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Promoting my boy – Medic999
Medic999, over at his UK EMS blog - http://medicblog999.wordpress.com/ - just put on a comment promoting a podcast he participated (It's ok bud, promote away anytime) It's over at www.EMSgarage.com and I thought that it deserved it's own main post.The po…
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I Love Cracked.com – A bit of Tattoo humor
This site is a tad, um, "peppery" but I feel comfortble reading it at work as long as nobody's looking and I'm at the firehouse. Some of the language gets a bit rough, but everything is decidedly "PG", other than some of the topics.Here are Three article…
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