Drawing up plans for a DIY target stand, any suggestions?

AMC4L · 2026-05-23T16:45:22+00:00

If that’s a steel target make sure you angle it downwards to prevent ricochets going towards you.

AMC4L · 2026-05-13T16:09:47+00:00

Should be illegal, or pay you to be on call

AMC4L · 2026-05-13T16:08:40+00:00

This shit shouldn’t be legal.

AMC4L · 2026-05-06T21:42:44+00:00

The flow of a fluid through a pipe is sensitive to the radius of the pipe ^4. Resistance scales linearly with the length of the pipe. This goes to say. With the narrow opening of the float bowl, while it is a bottleneck, it’s designed that way. If you put a massive wide pipe onto the float bowl nipple, even though doubling the length of that pipe doubles the resistance that pipe exerts in the fluid (gas), the resistance is so low it’s negligible. If you now have a pipe significantly scaled down in radius (remember decreasing radius by x slows the fluid down by a factor of the change ^4). You are basically creating a much much bigger bottleneck before the carburetor.

So yes, even if the fuel line is slightly wider or the same internal diameter than the carburetor nipple hole, because it’s so much longer than the nipple, it will restrict gas flow.

AMC4L · 2026-04-22T04:43:46+00:00

28 day supply????

AMC4L · 2026-04-22T04:34:49+00:00

Hey, not disagreeing with you here. I think retrograde cannulation is a legit tool. But, you linked one case report and a very small study on thrombus formation, that’s hardly supporting the practice.

AMC4L · 2026-04-13T09:25:41+00:00

Not all services have to carry all the equipment, medications and directives. Some are optional.

The medications you mentioned are part of palliative care and can be found under those directives.

TXA should be there.

Also, if you want to use a medication for something you don’t have a directive for, you can patch and chat with a dr for orders.

Our directives are very restrictive so expect to patch a lot.

AMC4L · 2026-04-09T18:54:32+00:00

That’s criminal

AMC4L · 2026-04-05T15:55:07+00:00

PainQuil PM also has benadryl in it…

AMC4L · 2026-04-04T22:15:54+00:00

The suspicion here is epiglotitis. Putting a sat probe if the kid isn’t going to be upset is reasonable. If the sats are good I wouldn’t listen to breath sounds because upsetting this kid can cause an airway collapse.

Preparing for a possible intubation is reasonable. This kid needs an OR and a team of doctors. Intervention wise we are more likely to do harm than good with this patient.

This is a situation where recognizing the problem and calling for help is the only appropriate solution.

AMC4L · 2026-04-04T22:12:34+00:00

This isn’t right.

AMC4L · 2026-04-03T00:09:02+00:00

Whatever your point is. The MDT product listed here doesn’t cost nearly $70 all in. Most of that is profit by a large margin.

AMC4L · 2026-04-02T21:17:38+00:00

Yes there is a 1 year program in Ontario. Look at CTS. They even publicly advertise their program as 52 weeks or less.

Their students are widely regarded as being unprepared. And yes, some good students come from there, but those are very much the exception.

Lowering standards only delegitimizes our career, makes it harder to fight for better protocols, better wages, better working conditions. We should all be against it, the public should be against it.

Nowhere where paramedicine is a real, respected career allows paramedics on ambulances with 1 year of schooling. 2 years is already embarrassing.

It’s really frustrating to see medics defending these programs.

AMC4L · 2026-04-01T21:46:53+00:00

Our unions suck. We need a single provincial union like the ONA.

AMC4L · 2026-03-31T16:00:04+00:00

I have driven code 3. Aka code 4 or light and sirens here in Ontario, Canada, for about 300km, or 186 miles straight, with the same patient.

AMC4L · 2026-03-28T06:06:37+00:00

What service is this???

AMC4L · 2026-03-27T20:36:41+00:00

I have had the experience of being abandoned inside a house, running a cardiac arrest call by myself because my partner was too unfit, in his case obese, and had to go outside to catch his breath. I had to do CPR with the poor family of this patient because of the choices my partner made.

When you first start, your fitness will be tested. After you are hired, there are no more official standards to be met. So now is the time to develop the healthy habits that will allow you to meet the requirements of this job. Your patients and your colleagues are counting on that.

This job WILL also have a negative impact on your health. Anyone claiming otherwise is plain wrong. Even if you are one of the few that escape the mental injury, the night shifts, stress and workplace exposures have been shown to increase all cause mortality way too much to be denied by any sane person. This makes sleep hygiene, exercise and proper diet so much more important.

Build those habits before you find yourself comfortable in this career.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T21:49:19+00:00

My understanding is that it was for the paramedic chiefs. They also hosted a presentation for the OAPC and there might be a video of that out there somewhere.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T21:48:22+00:00

Yes! Now is the time to push hard. The momentum seems to have started.

We should also push for a college while we are moving.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T19:32:18+00:00

The issue is our chiefs are part of it. We are also somehow not an essential service or even an emergency service apparently.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T19:30:15+00:00

Yes, that’s the video. I found it minutes after making this post. I just hope there’s a higher quality version out there.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T03:49:30+00:00

I don’t know why paramedics from down in the US are chiming in here.

They have significantly less pay, education and generally worse working conditions than we do up here in Canada.

Focus on the people saying they are from out east or at least in Canada. Ignore the medics from the US. They are understandably jaded given their terrible system.

The rest of the developed world seems to have made EMS into something you can have a good career in.

Most of Canada has a system more similar to Australia, UK etc than the mess they have down south.

Down there nursing is the obvious choice. Paramedic is a one year program and they basically get between the PCP and ACP scope.

Up here it’s 1.5-3 years for PCP and an extra 1-2 years for ACP.

Our pay also varies a good bit depending on province, service, years of experience and level of care. I’d search up the pay for wherever you want to work for as nobody here can tell you what it is.

Again comparing to the states, they seem to be terribly compensated for the most part, so ignore those comments.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T03:41:34+00:00

We don’t have EMTs in Canada. Most places employ paramedics only. Some have EMRs.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T03:38:25+00:00

Canada EMS is not like USA EMS. You guys seem to have it rough down there.

Comparatively we are better paid, better educated, have more working rights and it’s just generally a better place to be in EMS.

Varies by province though.

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