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Hey guys, as part of my college project for paramedics, I'm conducting a questionnaire to gather insights into the impact of employment benefits on your daily life and overall job satisfaction. ...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/31927-first-responder-questionnaire-on-employment-benefits/

🚑 ATTENTION FIRST RESPONDERS! 🚑 As an EMT and student researcher, I'm diving into how we handle psychiatric calls to enhance our communication and strategies. I've crafted a brief surve...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/31926-please-help-with-data-collection/

A few years ago, several of our Australian and/or New Zealand members were involved in a major wildfire in Australia, that lasted for weeks.   My question is, did the smoke cause orange ski...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/31829-canadian-wildfire-smoke/

We were having this debate at our station. What are your thoughts?

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26311-should-ems-services-be-required-to-have-the-covid-vaccine/

I received an email recently directly from a private company to do FEMA covid vaccinations. Supposedly they will offer me jobs within 50 miles of where I live. But there are some odd requirement...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26298-anyone-working-for-private-companies-doing-fema-vaccs/

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding law enforcement dealings with unresponsive patients at the scene. For background on myself, I successfully completed the EMT-B course at TEEX in Colle...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26236-are-police-officers-authourized-to-move-an-unresponsive-patient/

So am writing a research for college about inducing hypothermia after cardiac arrest by paramedics out of the hospital, So am trying to find the safest ways to start  targeted temp. management...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26234-induce-hypothermia/

Hello, everyone, Richard B the EMT here on an overdue visit. Hope you and your families have been safe from the CoViD 19, and you have not lost anyone from your teams. As I'm now almost 9 ye...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26233-covid-19/

Do you know of anyone that has quit EMS due to COVID-19?    Did they give a reason?

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26231-has-anyone-quit-due-to-covid-19/

In 2014 I got ticketed for a dui but never charged for it. I was parked in my neighborhood and got caught with alcohol in my car and since I was 17 (minor) there was a zero tolerance policy. I d...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26228-i-want-to-become-an-emt-but/

I have seen this idea being brought up on social media.   What are your thoughts?

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26225-should-ems-get-hazard-pay/

So I'm just curious.  How does everyone view all the isolation precautions?  Are they too strict?  Are they not strict enough?  Should they be mandatory or voluntary?  As for the PPE recomm...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26224-coronavirus-isolation-precautions/

Hi everyone! Just checking in to see what different areas of the country are doing as far as equipment, training and any other changes that are a result of the pandemic.  I look forward to c...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26223-covid-19-what-is-your-service-doing/

Let me start by saying: I’m a private EMT at a local Casino. I report to my EMT Supervisor and the Casino Management. (As well as workplace Compliance and Casino Surveillance) I have enco...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26222-compassion-emt-supervisor-disagrees/

What are the questions you would ask someone with dementia to figure out if their animal is a service animal or not. Federal law states can ask two questions is it a service animal and what is i...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26220-service-animals-2020/

Hey guys I have a question on how to become a flight nurse. So I already have an EMT background completed. I tried to apply for a bachelor in Nursing but I didn’t get in. And now I don’t kn...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26219-how-to-get-to-flight-nurse/

Could this be the future? I found this interesting article on ZDNet about the use of the new cellular technology to provide real time interaction with physician at the hospital.   Is this s...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26210-this-5g-ambulance-could-be-the-future-of-emergency-healthcare/

Contraindications for morphine use include (among others): head injury, decreased mental status, multiple trauma.  Why? I understand why it's respiratory depression effect would make contra...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26208-why-altered-locmultiple-trauma-morphine-contraindications/

So I've been out of hands on patient care for bit. Now that I've return to working a rig, I've noticed that my documentation, shall we say is horrible. I'm wondering if there a templates that I ...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26193-documentation/

Does anyone know what Suffolk County, New York fire districts run a paid dual Paramedic ambulance, rather than having a paramedic responding in a fly car?

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26184-paramedic/

Hello All, I am currently a Nationally Registered EMT and a CO stat certified EMT. I am thinking about trying to find a change of scenery and head to NY for a while. Does anyone have any advi...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/26169-ny-state-emt-reciprocity-question/

Hi FDNY guys, I am looking to read the ems operating guide, but the only copy of the ems operating guide I can find online is for the Android, and it is a free app, but too bad I have the ipho...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/21579-fdny-ems-operating-guide/

Just out of curiosity I was wondering how many people are or work with paramedics that are 18 or 19? What is the scope of practice? Job opportunity ect? Obviously these kids are fresh from high s...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/13880-young-paramedics/

This might sound like a stupid question. What would happen if someone was injected with battery acid in a high and low dosage? How would you treat it? I’ve tried Google and searched the site...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/5815-battery-acid/

Does spelling and grammatical errors in patient run reports indicate shoddy or poor patient care? Please discuss! this is bound to get some heated responses but it's something Dust and I have ...

https://www.emtcity.com/topic/3563-spelling-and-grammar-in-ems-run-reports/