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Too Much Information For a Paramedic?

By in Life Under the Lights at August 24, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Our friend Greg Friese was told that a class he taught was "too much information for a paramedic". Now there's three bloggers ranting, good job there, Anonymous Student Evaluation. Read More »

Mental Quickness – Do Smart Alecks Make Better EMTs?

By in Life Under the Lights at February 2, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Input, processing speed, and decision making skills are all part of being a good EMT or Paramedic. How can we improve our own? By thinking about it in a new way... and by busting some chops too 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 »

Advances in Resuscitation – CCR If you’re not doing it now, you will be

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 3:54 pm
New advances in the fight agains Sudden Cardiac Arrest - There's some exciting results here. We seem to be getting a fighting chance. Read More »

MCMAID Resuscitation Protocol

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 3:16 pm
This is a new cardiac arrest protocol currently in use which is showing great success - This is a supplemental post to "Advances in Resuscitation - CCR, if you're not doing it you will be" Read More »

Daily Training Topics 10/16/09

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 12:36 am
Daily EMS Training Topics from 10/16/09 - A link to a great article on IV placement and some quick BLS Airway skills refreshment. Can you find the hidden video? Read More »

Could it be? A Good EMT-B Student?

By in Life Under the Lights at October 16, 2009 at 7:53 am
EMS Students these days... What's with you? Was I like that? Probably. Here's a kid I had lately that I think's gonna be alright. Read More »

The Medics are Revolting

By in Life Under the Lights at October 15, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Welcome to my new blog. Allow me to head off on a rant here, no use pulling any punches. EMS Needs some changin'. Here's how we're going to do it. Hint: It's together Read More »

Ckemtp is now on Twitter and Facebook!

By in Life Under the Lights at October 14, 2009 at 8:57 pm
So I've finally joined the final frontier or something like that. After much prodding, teasing, cajoling, and downright coersion, Ckemtp has joined Facebook and Twitter.I'm Ckemtp on facebook and, coincidentally, @Ckemtp on Twitter (I think).At any rate,… Read More »

Paying My Pennance

By in Life Under the Lights at October 13, 2009 at 2:59 am
Ouch. Today I begin what I am sure to be a long, arduous process of atoning for my every IV sin. Out of the tens of thousands of patients I’ve treated, I’ve gained intraveinous access thousands of times. Probably I’ve missed a thousand or two … Read More »

Two blogs that I found in this long week that are just awesome

By in Life Under the Lights at October 12, 2009 at 2:58 am
This is a light week for me, or at least a 7 day period. Yesterday I worked a 12, today a 24, tomorrow a 12, the next day a 24. Then I have a day off, then a 24 then a 12. So by my count, since Saturday and until Friday I'll have worked 108 hou… Read More »

Soapy Demons – Ckemtp is a geek

By in Life Under the Lights at October 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Ok, so this post really proves just how much of a geek I really am. Just bear with me for a bit. This subject causes me a lot of personal grief. I know that it probably shouldn’t and that I am indeed a geek for worrying about this issue because seem… Read More »

If I wasn't so busy running calls today…

By in Life Under the Lights at October 9, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I would get a post up about EMS Ethics and patient advocacy involving a scenario for y'all...I would get more done on my new upcoming site that's going live (probably) early next week: http://www.lifeunderthelights.com/I would write a response to an… Read More »

Scenarios. A lot of EMS, a little Einstein

By in Life Under the Lights at September 22, 2009 at 5:19 am
A while back ago I had a kick where I did a scenario-based EMS ethics piece that took a look at a possible situation that could be faced by some Paramedics and asked readers what they would do in that case. The response was pretty good. You should add… Read More »

Passed HazMat and picked up a Blogroll addition!

By in Life Under the Lights at September 21, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I guess it's now somewhat more official... after much kicking, screaming, and crying... Ck is kinda now a glow worm. At least in certification, that is. I passed my HazMat Operations level class and now glow just a bit more than I did before. Honestly, I… Read More »

EMS Week 2009 – Letter to the Editor

By in Life Under the Lights at May 11, 2009 at 9:32 pm
*** Note!! - I'm getting a lot of traffic sent by Google looking for EMS Week thank you letters. There are more than one on this site. This is just the one that was indexed first and pops up first. Look at the home page to see more.Here is a letter to th… 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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