Posts Categorized: Emt
Do we really need paramedics on Ambulances?
Does every ambulance need a paramedic on it?
I would suggest no, and here is my rationale:
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You Can Nap if You Want To! Or You can Leave Your Calls Behind!
You can Nap if you want to! You can leave Leth-ar-Gee Behind! Because EMS can nap and if they don't nap - they leave, Patient Care behind. - Introducing the "Safety Nap" Who's with me?
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Paramedics and EMTs are Special, a salute to the Spork!
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
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A comment to make me think….
Today, a comment popped up from my old blog site, from a post from about a year ago, which detailed my thoughts and troubles following a particularly difficult suicide I had to deal with.
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ECG Geek 10 – The Discussion
What if I didn’t take him to a PPCI centre and this did turn out to be an MI? I would be hung out to dry!!
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ECG Geek 10
So, what is going on with this chaps ECG and what is your next course of action?
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When ‘caring’ becomes a challenge.
For the first time in my career I was faced with a situation where I found it difficult to really ‘care’ for a patient, and this has made me think long and hard about my feelings that I had and the way that I conducted myself.
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Who`s reality is real?
After finishing looking after a patient who informed me that he was the son of God and has been placed back on the earth to help us negotiate through the final years of our survival after spending 3 years in Hell, I couldnt help but think a little.
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In an Instant
This is a therapy session for me. An incident that happend to me years ago has been haunting my mind lately and I thought writing it down would help. Spoiler alert: The kid dies at the end.
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To Kneel or not to Kneel
Exploring the squishy side of emergency response. Do you always remember to look where you're putting your knees? I don't... Eww.
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My Ritual.
As I leave the house, I have a quick look up to the upstairs bedrooms, curtains closed, and feel content that my family are still sleeping soundly. I feel thankful that I am going out of the house to help people and am not sitting in the house waiting for help to arrive. I feel grateful that I am in a position that enables me to have such an impact on so many people’s lives, but also feel pressured to ensure that I am everything that they should hope for as I walk through their doors.
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EMS Week 2010 – All Respect is Earned
EMS week 2010 is coming up. This year, the official slogan is "Anytime. Anywhere. We'll be there." That's fine for the public, but I suggest that we use EMS week 2010 to promote our own slogan "All Respect is Earned"
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What was his resps?
The point being that we have grown to be able to take a look at a patient and gauge their respiratory rate down to within a few resps the vast majority of the time, havent we?
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Grumblemedics
Grumblemedics seem to be everywhere, whether they're a "grumble-Pee" or a "grumble-bee", perhaps they should evaluate their own attitudes. We have a long way to go, but look at how far we've come.
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Wouldnt it be great if……
It really has to be seen to be believed what this 'patient' did to get a police and ambulance response, not to mention the waste of time for the A&E Department.
And the best thing of all is that it is all caught on CCTV before the initial call was made.
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The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth??
Now I know with great certainty, that all of you in EMS will identify with this little tale. Maybe not to this exact example of this phenomenon, but too many other similar episodes to a greater or lesser degree..
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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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Real or Fake?
I think I am good at spotting the real from the not so real, but I sometimes wonder if I have ever assumed that the patient was faking it when in reality, they had some odd type of epilepsy which manifests itself in a strange way, and with no confusion following it.
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The Handover Blog Carnival – Closing Down…..
It is with a slightly heavy heart and a feeling of regret that I am shutting down 'The Handover' EMS Blog Carnival. It has been running for a little over a year and I hope it has brought alot of blogs to you that you may not have found without it.
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Respect
It is very easy to be professional and respectful towards a critical patient, it is much harder to be like that with someone who you may see as a 'time waster' who is getting in the way of you looking after proper patients or having a sleep. That is the real challenge sometimes.
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Just send the Wife!
As I have mentioned in the past, I think we are the only ambulance service in the country that does not knowingly send single maned paramedics to incidents where alcohol is involved. I have wrote previously about how I value that, and how I feel that it shows that my service wants to protect me as much as possible.
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Im not saying!…..Im just saying!
I am known for a saying at work :
“If you are going to do a 4, do a 12!”
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Assessment or Treatment – Continued
Firstly, I agree that treatment and assessment are intertwined and to be an efficient and effective EMS provider, you need to be proficient at both, and whilst I agree with these viewpoints, there is, I believe another thing to think of.
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The Future of Paramedics – Assessment or Treatment?
There has and always will be the need for an ALS component to pre-hospital care. However, in the future (very near future in the UK already) will an ALS provider be defined by his or her 'intervention capability' or will a true ALS provider be defined by their assessment and diagnosis ability.
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Putting my foot in my mouth again!
I have mentioned in the past that there have been a number of times where I have asked a question which came back to bit me in the bum and made me wish the ground would open up and swallow me.
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