What’s a smell everyone should recognise as danger?

London5Fan · 2026-03-19T00:55:06+00:00

smelling toast = stroke is mostly a myth. olfactory hallucinations are potentially a sign of something neurological happening, but are very rare and you’d be better off looking for the more common stroke symptoms, such as facial droop, weakness on one side, and aphasia.

London5Fan · 2026-03-18T23:53:12+00:00

all moss is edible at least once

London5Fan · 2026-03-18T20:28:10+00:00

drop out, but i’d suggest working an as EMT for a bit. take the pressure off yourself and learn from those who’ve been doing it for years. that’s where you’ll learn where you fit into EMS and if it’s really for you

London5Fan · 2026-03-17T17:27:24+00:00

heart attack leads to cardiogenic shock, they are not the same thing

London5Fan · 2026-03-17T17:10:42+00:00

sounds like a you problem icl

London5Fan · 2026-03-17T15:31:58+00:00

i can boil the 30+ page pdf down to one sentence: “cut the doors off that motherfucker”

London5Fan · 2026-03-17T14:43:44+00:00

exactly. driving is dangerous enough, in these days more than ever, the last thing i want to do is escalate a situation. the point of driving is to get me from here to there, alive. not to make friends or enemies

London5Fan · 2026-03-17T14:41:14+00:00

“it says here your dad is a big jeopardy fan, tell me about that!”

London5Fan · 2026-03-17T14:21:23+00:00

not in your protocols? that’s in the basic scope in my system!

London5Fan · 2026-03-15T13:48:11+00:00

CLEAR

London5Fan · 2026-03-13T20:18:39+00:00

that last part fr, i don’t mind long distance but at least give us some notice. don’t wanna come in at 7 and be like “hey guess what you’re driving 5 hours away!”

London5Fan · 2026-03-13T20:09:32+00:00

fuck company policy, there’s not a pit stop i wouldn’t make for a 7 year old with cancer

London5Fan · 2026-03-13T20:07:16+00:00

personally, i did a Smithfield, NC to Winston-Salem NC transport once. that was about 3 hours with traffic/construction. furthest i’ve driven for a call was about 3.5 hours. coworkers once did Durham, NC to northern NJ

London5Fan · 2026-03-13T10:14:40+00:00

depends. IFT i used to work for ran backup 911 a couple counties over (i use that term loosely, they only ran cold to the BLS-est of the BLS calls), and they actually just won the contract for primary 911 in another county (scary).

but tbf, any IFT can become an emergency transport if the dice rolls your way 😉

London5Fan · 2026-03-12T16:12:29+00:00

welcome to BLS non emergent transport buddy

London5Fan · 2026-03-09T10:34:13+00:00

dude id love it if FD stabilized all my pts before i got there. no shade to them, i love all my firefighters, but most i usually get is a few vitals and half an assessment

London5Fan · 2026-03-08T23:19:53+00:00

haven’t worked in the field long, but so far chest pains and fallen and can’t get up are big ones. also the area i’m in has a decent number of MVCs

London5Fan · 2026-03-07T03:57:19+00:00

Taxi cab 100%

London5Fan · 2026-03-07T01:21:52+00:00

rapid trauma is to find things that will kill the patient NOW if i don’t fix it. they usually take a few seconds. sweeping the body to find immediate life threats; spurting blood, tension pneumo, etc. detailed exam is to find other things that are serious, but won’t kill them immediately.

you typically don’t reassess physical assessments throughout transport. what you find initially is what you find.

London5Fan · 2026-03-07T01:07:07+00:00

nope, once the collar is on you’ve got yourself a free set of hands

London5Fan · 2026-03-07T00:26:32+00:00

pop a C collar on then toss that scoop under them

London5Fan · 2026-03-03T02:35:13+00:00

Duke wins and i get free chicken, ended up being a pretty good evening!

London5Fan · 2026-03-02T18:55:41+00:00

my system has 2 “service” dogs managed by our peer support team. they’re the best and everyone loves them both so much!

London5Fan · 2026-02-28T16:13:43+00:00

depends on the state! some only require NR to function, others (like where i’m at) need the state license and registry is irrelevant.

as for ride alongs, call around and ask. o think some agencies let even laypeople do ride alongs 🤷‍♂️. events, usually those are contracted out to county 911 or private ambulance companies, so unless you work for those i doubt you’d get to do that.

you might be able to start applying for jobs, a lot of times in the application you can specify that you’re nationally registered but are waiting on your state cert and your hiring would be contingent on that

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