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EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?

By in Life Under the Lights at August 19, 2010 at 12:41 am
"Is that the best you can do?" Those seven words are so simple, yet when asked of ourselves and others, can become so powerful. Is what you're doing in your EMS career the "best" you can do? Think of what we could accomplish if all simply "tried our best". Read More »

Paramedics and EMTs are Special, a salute to the Spork!

By in Life Under the Lights at July 6, 2010 at 10:51 pm
The humble spork, the very symbol of efficiency, ingenuity, and ineffective eating performance. How does the spork tie in with EMS? Very well, actually. We are sporks and we're not sporks. It's complex... you'll see Read More »

EMS practice

By in Life Under the Lights at February 1, 2010 at 4:10 pm
What does Highschool Football Practice have to do with EMS? Does passing a football have anything to do with passing a tube? Maybe it does Read More »

The Paramedic Intercept – Rural EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at December 18, 2009 at 6:42 pm
A series on the issues facing rural EMS and rural paramedicine - The ALS Intercept, or Paramedic Intercept, is a useful tool in extending the highest level of care to rural communities. I've done this from both sides and believe that it's a useful tool Read More »

Will your career survive a decade or more in full-time EMS? Take this three question quiz!

By in Life Under the Lights at November 6, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Think you've got the right mindset to survive a long career in EMS? Come take this helpful three-question quiz to determine if you've got the proper amount of insanity to handle it. EMS Humor folks. Read More »

Someone Failed… Is it the System? Everyday EMS Ethics

By in Life Under the Lights at September 29, 2009 at 8:46 am
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 … Read More »

Hey NBC! I watched "Trauma" (Post #2)

By in Life Under the Lights at September 29, 2009 at 2:18 am
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… Read More »

Alternative Circulatory Access Strategies – Hi Ho IO

By in Life Under the Lights at September 20, 2009 at 9:41 pm
A while back ago, Steve over at http://theemtspot.com wrote a great post on Gaining IV Access. In the post, he’s got some great strategies for getting your IV starts every time. But, as we all know, sometimes you just can’t get the darn catheter t… Read More »

Deadline Monday 9-21! The Handover Cometh!

By in Life Under the Lights at September 20, 2009 at 12:40 am
On Friday the 25th of this month The Handover Blog Carnival, the biggest, best, first, most awesome, and a whole lot of other superlatives blog carnival featuring awesome bloggers from the EMS, ER, and A&E blogosphere is coming right here to Life Und… Read More »

Another Night on the Box

By in Life Under the Lights at September 17, 2009 at 5:27 am
I love my Job. I love the Pay. I want to be here every day. Oh wait, I AM. Don’t get me wrong here folks, my Abusive Co-Dependent relationship with EMS is a loving one. I couldn’t imagine not being a paramedic. I couldn’t imagine not being a … Read More »

The Handover is coming! – Deadline 9/21/2009!

By in Life Under the Lights at September 16, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Howdy everyone! I cannot wait for my chance to host the upcoming edition of The Handover Blog Carnival, the premier EMS blog carnival on the Interwebz. Look for some cool things that I'll be throwing in there with what is already shaping up to be some gr… Read More »

Easy Microbiology for EMS – Really cool

By in Life Under the Lights at September 14, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Here are two quick videos that I thought were very, very cool. You'll feel smart after the first one... then not so smart after the second. Enjoy.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZEqQ1cpmk&hl=en&fs=1&]Ok, after that one. You should b… Read More »

Did y'all read this? – Rerun

By in Life Under the Lights at September 11, 2009 at 3:27 am
Howdy everyone,  I've been just plain busy over the last few days and I'm sorry that I've not been posting as much as I usually do. Bear with me though, I've got some good stuff on the burner. Big things are coming. Cool things too (I hope!)  S… Read More »

TOTWTYTR has a great post on Fire Based EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at September 10, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Sorry about the lack of posting for a day or so, y'all. I've been really busy (and there are some huge things on the horizon!) but in the spare time I've had, I've been reading some of the other really great bloggers out there. TOTWTYTR has posted a grea… Read More »

The Grand Rounds meets EMS – At Medic999

By in Life Under the Lights at September 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm
My buddy Medic999 is hosting the Grand Daddy Medical Blog Carnival of them all over on his site http://medicblog999.wordpress.com/ - Head on over and check it out. There's a ton of good stuff over there. Wow, a lot of stuff I hadn't read too. It's g… Read More »

By in Life Under the Lights at June 11, 2009 at 2:10 am
The Happy Medic does a great bit on his blog entitled: "You make the call". In these posts, he lays out a situation and invites the audience to comment on what it is that they would do.As a currently ill paramedic/blogger, I think that I can do this too.… Read More »

A sick medic is a lazy blogger

By in Life Under the Lights at June 9, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Thursday I came down with something. Sore throat, sinus gook, earache, fever of 102 point something. I was sick. I ended up going home sick from shift that day and I haven't gotten better yet. I've been working, but not feeling good at all. Then last shi… Read More »

Good Post on "Rescuing Providence"

By in Life Under the Lights at June 6, 2009 at 3:32 pm
The good Lieutenant over at "Rescuing Providence" has written a good and touching post on one of the simple pleasures in EMS.http://rescuing-providence.blogspot.com/2009/06/difference.htmlSince the wedding (OMG! Today is my 1 week anniversary and I haven… Read More »

Enough: EMS 2.0

By in Life Under the Lights at June 6, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Your Happy Medic, one of my favorite EMS bloggers who is waaay better at this than I am has written a great post that I'm linking to: HEREIn response, Medicblog999, our buddy from the UK wrote a response, that I'm linking to: HERE.Happy states that there… Read More »

A warning to the EMS Blogosphere

By in Life Under the Lights at June 3, 2009 at 8:34 pm
http://www.iemta.com/KEMSA%20Chronicle%20Article.pdfThe above link is to an essay written by a Paramedic from the State of Kansas who got into a very large amount of trouble by being less than flattering in a blog post that he wrote about a specific pati… Read More »

A Shoutout to Happy Medic

By in Life Under the Lights at June 2, 2009 at 1:13 am
http://yourhappymedic.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunday-fun-more-posters.htmlHappy Medic had a great post. Here it is.I'm married!!! Yay!!! Read More »

Dextrocardia?

By in Life Under the Lights at April 21, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I took care of a patient today. Poor kid, he had a lot of congenital issues and was noncommunicative and deformed. He was completely bedridden and needed constant care. Poor kid.In treating the condition that he had I put him on an EKG and much to my sur… Read More »

The Profession that is EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at April 19, 2009 at 8:18 pm
(Attention: I edited this post heavily. I think that my ADD was in full effect when I wrote it. It's better now, I think)The results are in: the bloggers, posters, commentators, columnists, partners, colleagues, and other people even passively involved i… Read More »

I Got a Day off Today #2

By in Life Under the Lights at April 15, 2009 at 4:35 pm
My lovely fiancé (The wedding is May 30th and yes, we're riding in a fire truck from the Church to the Reception) is working the BLS truck at the private ambulance service that she works at. They're busy down there. The service puts up 3 or 4 ALS trucks… Read More »

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