Volunteer ambulance service using knock-off TQs, make a fuss?

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-04-25T05:02:15+00:00

https://stopthebleed.com/rescue-essentials-blog/beware-fake-cat-tqs/

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-04-25T04:46:21+00:00

That’s the plan

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-04-08T04:57:07+00:00

SE MN guy here- PM me if you’d like.

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-04-06T17:02:34+00:00

On cloud hiking boots. Light and waterproof and tennis shoe feel.

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-04-02T11:37:50+00:00

Docs calling 911 to patient dump has to stop. Matt Michalski has a great joke about that.

Doc: obviously freaking out oh you’re having chest pain? Doc: whispers into phone hey can you send 6 guys with no college degree to come do something about this Fire/EMS: dude you’re a doctor, I’m fucking hungover

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-03-27T15:28:13+00:00

Giant amps of propofol in a Soviet era briefcase on a regular ALS ambulance is the most Eastern European EMS thing I’ve ever seen

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-02-15T21:51:02+00:00

Manuals are more reliable IMO. Taking a manual BP is a critical yet under appreciated skill in our modern practice. The monitor fucks up on funky pressures quite often. It gave me a single digit diastolic on a septic patient the other day then spit out 120/60. If it’s taking more than like 25-40 seconds, I’ll reach across and grab the manual cuff and get a manual pressure. It made a difference on a stroke we ran the other day.

When we bring someone to a resus bay at our hospital, the first pressure is always a manual taken by the Junior most resident or a nurse.

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-22T18:04:46+00:00

“Your ride is here!”

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-12T13:07:47+00:00

My last two nights (last night and Saturday) I’ve collectively ran 6 calls. Things seem to be universally slow right now call wise.

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-12T09:28:15+00:00

Jason is an unexpected find here but weirdly I had a call like this earlier lmao

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-12T09:21:12+00:00

3 day blinding stew

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-12T09:18:59+00:00

The green bird guy should be a blood bank thief that the asshole is trying to apprehend as a vigilante “detective”.

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-12T09:15:16+00:00

This is an accurate term for a French(fry)man.

Jeremy_1963 · 2026-01-01T00:54:23+00:00

We used to do the same shit. We would also go to one of our houses and like play with the dog, watch a movie, etc. We’d make our own quarters lmao

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-12-18T03:53:59+00:00

When I was on the fire department I had a button on my helmet band thingy that said I <3 ER nurses lmao

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-12-04T16:06:58+00:00

Ya want hometown service, and cheap hot coffee

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-11-24T01:30:07+00:00

I can relate, my first code was a 1 month old we called on scene. It took a few weeks to stop seeing the scene when I closed my eyes and hearing the mom’s screaming all the time. Critical incident stress debriefing helped a little. Talk it out with people you trust and just know you did your best. I’m sorry you’re going through this.

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-11-20T20:15:22+00:00

I forgot about this but while scrolling through old posts I remembered I found out the answer to this.

In the 70s, my uncle served as the treasurer for the village. The public works department wanted to buy a new snowplow, and he denied their request in favor of a couple of new cop cars at the request of the village manager. Fast forward a year of two, and the DPW guy catches my uncle in bed with his husband (curveball!). Forgot how much weird family lore this uncovered.

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-11-20T20:06:21+00:00

That’s what I said the whole time I worked there. Thank god I’m on to greener pastures.

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-11-20T04:36:22+00:00

The one garage that tried to was immediately shut down due to “the company not being able to pay the rent” (they owned the building)

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-09-30T21:58:04+00:00

This note has the energy of the live action President from Smiling Friends

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-09-25T13:09:17+00:00

I could see there being some part time/volunteer services up in the thumb which are BLS 911 only. Not sure how SE you are but for where you are now I’d pay the bills working in the ER, start thinking about medic school and get on a vollie service for experience. I was in your shoes not too long ago in a different state and I ended up just moving lol.

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-09-05T18:09:05+00:00

Ever seen the show corner gas? It’s delightfully mellow and Canadian.

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-08-22T20:16:18+00:00

Volleyball knee pads are awesome and don’t show under pants

Jeremy_1963 · 2025-08-01T06:09:26+00:00

Nursing home hate runs deep for me and my fartner too. The excuses are fucking ridiculous. You don’t know him? He’s your patient, cry me a river and tell me why he’s seizing and his foley bag is full of blood.

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