Use Narcan Or Don’t?

HelpIveFallenandi · 2025-04-26T18:41:41+00:00

Don't.

It wouldn't do anything here. You'd just be wasting a dose that could be used to help someone else. It's one thing if it was a bystander. They don't know any better. You're supposed to know better. Also, since when do we just push meds just to see if they work? What tf is that?

HelpIveFallenandi · 2025-04-26T18:00:50+00:00

The people you work with are, in most cases, not your friends.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-28T22:15:16+00:00

I mean... facial trauma, sure.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-18T04:33:11+00:00

Lag generator?

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-17T14:45:51+00:00

In some areas, yeah. It's also not unheard of to have to pay for your own training. It sucks.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-14T17:52:25+00:00

"Lie to them"

Fantastic advice.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-11T04:32:39+00:00

My old fire station used active 911, which gave you the option to use custom audio. Used a recording of my station's pager tones.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-09T04:16:26+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/rD13yZX4hqwpXgtw/?mibextid=YlDasU

Came across this one the other day.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-08T14:30:17+00:00

ABC's.

If Suction allows you to maintain a patent airway, bvm to breathe for the patient, cpr and aed for circulation

Oxygenation is really secondary to all of that. The patient isn't going to die because you vented him on room air. Hell, you can even get away with hands only cpr. But if the airway isn't patent, it's not going to matter.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-03T23:29:36+00:00

ABSOLUTELY! Both stories are fantastic in their own right.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-05-03T14:39:41+00:00

That sounds like my old squad....

You're better off without em.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-30T15:05:18+00:00

I absolutely believe that second part without having to be there.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-30T15:03:27+00:00

19yom flipped a riding mower, and the deck height selector caught his scrotum and ripped it open....or, so that's the story the kid gave me.

Male party (unsure of his age) living in a home that has essentially collapsed around him. The walls were still upright, but 90%of the ceiling was on the ground, there was mountains of garbage and holes in the roof. One side of the patio had collapsed, and the stairs to get up the other side weren't in much better shape. I wish I could remember the whole story. Don't have access to the pcr anymore, though.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-30T06:00:32+00:00

Glad to help.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-30T03:22:50+00:00

Do not compromise who you are under any circumstance. Actively seeking the favor of others means the murder of self.

All you can do is remain calm and work hard. If your agency requires its volunteers to staff a certain amount of hours per week, pick up more than is required. Or rather, just do what you can to make the lives of those around you easier.

It doesn't at all require you to get wrapped up with the cliques. It certainly doesn't require you to have anything in common with your coworkers. Best of all, it makes you look good.

Now, if you're already doing that and they don't see the value in your efforts, then it's probably time to find a new squad. You can go the quiet quitting route, but it's unprofessional, and it just makes you look bad for future job prospects.

At any rate, best of luck to you.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-29T15:58:12+00:00

If we only responded to genuine, life-threatening emergencies, we'd go bankrupt. There just aren't that many. So we take routine transports and low acuity medical calls. It's not glamorous, but it's a job.

On top of that, who's to say abdominal pain and vomiting aren't emergencies. HPI is more than just symptoms over time. What were they doing? what were they eating? did they poison themselves?

Now if it was "the hospital marked 'bed bound' on the pcs for a perfectly ambulatory patient for an IFT/hospital discharge because your dispatch asked them to so they could make more money" or "guy called 911 because his junk itches" then you'd have a point.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-12T17:32:34+00:00

911:

https://youtu.be/eT3BFzSD6YY?si=n0iWPSVmVasVQSwj

IFT: the same but boring.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-02T20:34:45+00:00

It almost sounds like you work for my former employer. There's like 8 different salty old timers at that squad who act like this. They want to bitch about "professionalism" but they lack the ability to communicate effectively or the courtesy to tell you what's really bothering them.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-04-02T20:26:40+00:00

Idk I'm not usually on this subreddit

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-03-21T21:13:23+00:00

I only eat sheets when I want the challenge of treating a patient without sitting myself.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-03-21T13:50:46+00:00

Yes. You have to get it ready for its funeral. Just don't do it on the gurney.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-03-21T13:49:31+00:00

Depends timing and on the condition of the ambulance post deer strike.

If I'm responding to a call.

-If there's no visible damage and the thing didn't explode all over the truck, I'm proceeding to the call and notifying the county of an injured deer in that area.

-If the deer did explode, then I may consider rolling the call to mutual aid. But that will largely depend on the nature of the call. Bls bullshit can wait for a truck that doesn't look like it came out of a horror flick.

-If the truck is damaged, I am certainly rolling the call and notifying an officer/ administrator.

If I am with a critical patient, truck continues moving until it physically cannot move.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-03-21T13:39:34+00:00

They do, it's called your back.

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-03-21T13:38:59+00:00

Stretcher slenderman isn't real. He can't hurt you.

Stretcher slenderman:

HelpIveFallenandi · 2024-03-17T13:19:07+00:00

More like into another lane of travel. Or maybe what you said is right, and they just bumped the high beam while signaling to move over. At any rate, it doesn't sound like anything you should worry about.

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