CME Meeting tonight! - Correction!

It's Thursday night again. 1900 at the Old Court House. Make sure you know your Atropine. See you there!

Deana Ceal is a WINNER!

Deana knew the answer to the last contest question. This one was pretty basic but the ER docs have seen several transports where the Oxygen delivery has been inappropriate. To quote Deana, "NEVER DEPRIVE A PATIENT OF OXYGEN REGARDLESS OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DIAGNOSIS". So, if your patient is having difficulty breathing, complaining of shortness of breath, etc., they need to be on high flow oxygen. Apparently somewhere in our training there was given the impression that COPD patients can have their drive to breath "knocked out" by giving them high flow oxygen and this was a reason to place them on minimum flow or not to give oxygen at all. It is mentioned only as a reason to monitor your COPD patient even closer. If indeed your patient fails to breath you will treat them just as you would any other patient who is not breathing; either by bagging them or if that fails, and you are qualified, by intubating. Never deprive their brain and vital organs of the oxygen they need!

Training Calendar, Atropine, Etc.

Check out the calendar and make some time to attend one! You get CME hours and are paid for your training - can't get a better deal than that! So, please come, increase your knowledge and skills. As usual at the end of training we will run a full code.

We are still working on getting Atropine on the rigs. It is ready to go on board, however, at our training meetings we still have tons of questions come up. So...as soon as we are qualified Dr. Dickman will allow us to use it. It will be a great asset to our care for patients so lets make the effort to get qualified.

We still don't have a winner for the last contest question! Come on you guys, you KNOW this! Our prizes so far are gift certificates to Walmart, CPR mask key chains, and 10 dollar bills!

Training Meetings - November

Hey everyone, because of conference and Thanksgiving we are only going to have one training meeting this month and it will be tomorrow night at the Old Court House in Castle Dale. Thursday, Nov 20th, Old Court House in CD, 1800.
If you attended conference please bring an item or two to discuss with the group. Maybe it is a new concept or a new twist on an old idea or just a great way to remember an old idea. Maybe it is just something interesting you'd like to share. This is what conference is all about; learning something yourself and sharing it with the EMT's who were not able to attend so please participate!

Also, we will be running a code. I know some of you "old timers" think this is redundant but even though there are those who really could do a code in their sleep,we have new people coming on board and there are even some older EMT's who just aren't sure about the next step or the right drug or what to do next. So, we are going to run codes till we feel good about taking the lead and directing our crew to do them.

Atropine is available as soon as we are confidant about its administration.

Love you all,

It's been a long time!

It has been a long time but the basic class has come to an end now. I will have news here on the blog about their successful testing experience! They have been a really great, sharp, and hilarious group to work with. You know how I love to teach but I am exhausted!I'm sure if they are hired to our service they will be an asset to each of us and I know you will welcome them aboard.

On to more news.

By now, each of you have received the notification that we are going to be able to go to conferences with the help of the county once again. Please get your applications on line but instead of sending them in, drop them off to Jim or to the Sheriff's office. The supervisors will be making the decision as to who goes on the fall one and who waits for the spring conference. So, maybe you should let them know now about your preferences. With this learning experience again made available to us I hope we will each take the experience seriously, attend the classes, bring back knowledge and skills to share and BOND with our fellow EMTs.

We will go back to doing CME hours/training on Thursdays at your individual services as we were doing before.Thank you for your patience while this class proceeded. Thanks to those who took advantage of joining our class. And, also thanks to Pete, Stacy and Don Marelli for instructing when we needed them so badly.

We are still waiting for a good night to get together with Dr. O. Dickman. I will post as soon as we have a date! Try to come and welcome him aboard our service.

Eyes on the new contest!

New Medical Control Doctor

Hey everyone! We have a brand new Medical Control Doctor at the helm! Dr. Otto Dickman has agreed to come play with us! Though we got very close to Dr. Engar and are sorry to see him go, we are excited to get to know Dr. Dickman. He will be meeting with us soon so stay tuned; you don't want to miss that meeting. If you get a chance, let him know we are glad to have him aboard.

New Basic Class!

Finally, we have the ok to begin our Basic EMT class!
It will start July 29th, 5:30pm, at the CD Old Court House.
Please spread the word. We look forward to working with these new people. If you'd like to help with class or need CME hours, please join us!