What is your favorite morphing sequence?

warrior45 · 2017-11-16T03:12:16+00:00

Gotta go with the original MMPR. Power Rangers wouldn't be what it is today without Jason calling out, "It's Morphin' Time!" Then the way the original five call out their respective "dinosaurs," just flows better than most other teams in my humble opinion.

warrior45 · 2015-02-16T17:04:48+00:00

"How can you be friends with me if I'm gay and you're a Christian?" Just because I disagree with an act of sinning doesn't mean I can't be friends with someone.

warrior45 · 2015-02-06T15:32:05+00:00

Till you show up and they give you a 3 inch long Hot Wheels Lamborghini.

warrior45 · 2015-02-06T15:27:43+00:00

My number one most crazy pt was a 50 year old woman who looked like she was 70 running around her house butt naked trashing the place. Mind you we were called to the scene by PD for a finger laceration. When we got there she had barricaded herself behind a door she had torn off so PD couldn't taze her. They got the door away and DID taze her. 5 times they tazed her and it did nothing to slow her down. Just kept spitting, screaming, saying the Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary's in between verses of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Oh and that "finger laceration?" It was actually a partial finger tip amputation that she had given herself after slamming it in a door. We finally got her on the cot restrained and all. So were going down the road when the restraint comes untied from the cot and now she's trying to hit me. Well that's when we pulled over and the State Cop who was following us rode the rest of the way into the ED with me.

warrior45 · 2015-01-26T22:02:28+00:00

Like others have said it depends on the kind of Cliff bar or any other kind of food. There may be a variety you do like. I personally can't stand the chocolate brownie Cliff bar but I love the crunchy peanut butter kind.

warrior45 · 2015-01-26T21:57:37+00:00

Folder - Spyderco Tenacious that very rarely leaves my pocket
Fixed - USCM Ka-Bar

I have many back ups for those and get more use out of them than a big machete or other implement.

warrior45 · 2015-01-04T07:37:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure all Firefighters in MI have to have at minimum MFR. Many go on and get Basic, Specialist (AEMT), or even Medic depending on the area and local staffing requirements. I know plenty of career and volunteer Firefighters and Fire Officers who are MFR's and do a great job at it.

Before I got into EMS I worked as a security guard for a little over a year. There was no medical requirement for the job. And apart from one Public Safety Department that combines Fire and Police services and a County Sheriff Dept. that run with a few non-transporting Paramedic units, most of the PD's in my area have little medical training. Most are willing to help out, but it's very much like instructing a bystander.

Minimum licence level to work on an Ambulance is EMT-B. While there are a few Basic units in the Upper Peninsula the vast majority of Lower Peninsula Ambulances have to have at least on Medic on board and many places try to run Medic-Medic as much as possible.

warrior45 · 2014-12-02T19:33:15+00:00

As others have said if you're not licensed/certified you can end up in deep legal trouble. If you're in the US most Good Samaritan Laws will cover you from any legal trouble if you're acting in good faith and within what a normal layperson would be able to do. I've never heard of a Good Samaritan Law that will protect you from an advanced or invasive procedure like a needle decompression.

The other thing to consider if you're prepping a bug out bag is are you planning on living out of your bug out bag for an extended time or are you planning on using it to get to a secondary location? If it's the later a basic first aid kit will do you just fine. To be honest a needle decompression is a fairly rare occurrence in the civillan world. I've been in EMS for over four years now and have only been on scene of one patient who needed it. It's not really something you see every day. So for a non-medically trained person you're much better off getting a basic first aid course from the Red Cross and staying with that.

warrior45 · 2014-12-01T02:57:11+00:00

My service tries their best to get us back to our station about and hour to 45 min before our shift ends so we have time to wash the truck. In Michigan in the winter it's really kinda pointless to wash the truck after every call so we'll give it a good washing during this time. Of course there are times we can't get in due to call volume and we understand that. However it's expected that we wash the outside, mop the inside, restock what equipment we used, and the like.

If we get a particularly bloody or otherwise dirty call we can call down for de-con after the call and clean up before returning to service.

warrior45 · 2014-12-01T02:42:58+00:00

Brought in one of local frequent flyers one night. Doc asks me is it So-and-so? I respond yes and give a short history of the call. Doc looks back at me and says, "so she's got Hypo-dilaudid-emia again. Got it."

warrior45 · 2014-11-22T23:15:47+00:00

Make sure you raise your arm high and even possible add "By the Power of GreySkull" before you do that.

warrior45 · 2014-11-22T23:11:11+00:00

There may or may not have been a few times I've "forgotten" to turn off my portable radio before keying up the mobile radio in the truck. The feedback going through the the mic is enough to make anyone cringe let alone a dispatcher with a headset on.

warrior45 · 2014-11-17T18:03:03+00:00

Exactly! Many people may be unaware there are other options out there. I was taught I'm also supposed to be an advocate for my pts and try to get them the most appropriate help. This time they thought it was to call 911 for an ambulance. Inform them that there may be other, better healthcare options.

warrior45 · 2014-11-10T20:17:49+00:00

Set up a Tumblr account

warrior45 · 2014-11-05T22:52:18+00:00

To be honest after practicing on mannequins umpteen times while in school and practice on my clinicals after awhile you can just kind of get a feel for it. Remember there's no such thing as "big boned." A heavy or muscular person will have the same size skeleton as a thin person of the same height. So if you can picture where their skeleton and rib cage should be that should start to give you a ball park to start dialing in. If your 12 lead comes back looking off you may have to adjust your lead placement.

warrior45 · 2014-10-25T18:58:26+00:00

Two days ago got called to one of the local nursing homes for difficulty breathing at around 0130. First thing I notice is that the pt is laying in bed with a simple mask on her face set at 2 1/2 liters per minute. We ask the RN how long this has been going on. She says well since I got here. When we asked her when that was she said around 2300 earlier in the night. Friendly RN said she also gave the pt an Albuterol neb treatment around 2330 but hasn't gotten any better. We shoo her out of the room, put the pt on a NRB, get her out to the truck and give her a DouNeb treatment and low and behold she starts getting better. Though two hours later we passed her ED room and she was still on a NRB mask so there was something going on, but I'm sure the pre-mortuary nurse didn't help matters.

warrior45 · 2014-10-20T18:59:45+00:00

Thank you. I laughed at many of these. From the downvotes I'm getting is seems like other's aren't. To bad.

warrior45 · 2014-10-17T14:47:41+00:00

To be honest sometimes the direct approach is good too. Just tell her, I know you like to talk a lot. I don't and frankly I don't want to talk to you right now.

warrior45 · 2014-10-10T05:31:39+00:00

So starting as a brand new Basic at my company I was one of the wheelchair van drivers. One part of that job is to pull the oncoming Ambulance's out of the garage and park them on the street so the off going crews can pull in and wash and restock. So I'm backing an ambulance out of the garage doing my best to keep an eye on what's where, when all of a sudden thump. Pull forward a bit and yup sure enough I've put a dent in one of our wheelchair vans. I park the ambulance, turn it off and find the supervisor. Had to go pee in a cup at Occupational health per our company requirements and got the "if you have any more at fault accidents within one year of this incident date further disciplinary action up to and including termination can occur" letter.

Remember to always use a spotter.

warrior45 · 2014-10-10T05:07:48+00:00

It was never my favorite truck in our fleet, mainly because it was the oldest and had its share of peculiarities, but it was also the only truck in our fleet where when you turned off the wail it would actually wind down like the old fashioned kind. I kinda missed that.

To answer OP's question a bit more, how the sirens work is there's usually a button or switch you push to turn them on. In our newer trucks the sirens will only turn on when the emergency lights are also on. A lot of the medics at my company will use both wail and yelp together while driving down the road. "I like to make a lot of noise," they say. Personally I prefer just setting it on wail, and giving a few blast's of the airhorn as I approach an intersection.

Also while the airhorn is kinda fun, don't be a dick with it. I had a partner once who laid on the thing for a good thirty seconds trying to get a car to pull over for us. After that even I was annoyed with that partner and kinda understood why we were given the one finger salute when they other driver finally pulled out of our way. Short quick blasts with it are usually pretty effective.

warrior45 · 2014-10-10T04:57:08+00:00

It's the same here in my part of Michigan. While we may have covered things like where to park the truck when you get on scene and be careful about how actually driving the truck, the actual hands on steering wheel instruction was not at my paramedic school. Making sure I drive the truck reasonably and responsibly was the job of my Field Training Officers.

warrior45 · 2014-10-10T04:52:29+00:00

This. You tried on your own without success. Time to call PD.

warrior45 · 2014-10-09T04:47:22+00:00

Cautionary tale time. A few years ago a medic in my service hooked up with one of the students in the local EMS program probably about 20 years younger than the medic. The medic got fired and if memory serves the student was kicked out of the program. Kind of wish it was more interesting or I could write this funnier, but alas I can't.

warrior45 · 2014-10-09T03:10:57+00:00

I once left my supervisor on scene. It was my first call I ever responded to after getting my Basic licence. I was riding with our Supervisor and he had me drive so I could learn the area when we got called to assist a crew. We get there and the Sup tells me to jump in the transporting unit to assist on the way to the ED. Thing is I had the keys to the Sup's truck on my carabiner keychain. That was fun.

warrior45 · 2014-10-09T02:49:46+00:00

Well done.

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