<p>Clearly this ambulance stuff is srsbsns.
SingDance, you should just admit defeat before this goes on another forty-one pages.</p>
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According to the hospital, critical means abnormal or unstable vitals. Responsiveness/LOC is considered a vital sign, right? 
Unconsciousness is considered a life threat anyway = immediate transport.</p>
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In my defense, it’ll only be 10 pages if you’re using the 40 posts per page view!</p>
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<p>Unconscious or just asleep? In most cases, a person who is drunk and fell asleep is not going to die, they are going to be breathing at a normal rate, their heart rate will be normal, etc. The only time someone would be defined as “critical” as a result of alcohol poisoning would be if they are unable to be roused, are not breathing properly, and are at risk of organ failure. I doubt that happened to 60 people in one night-that’s probably more serious alcohol poisonings than that place responds to in a decade.</p>
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<p>There’s a 40 posts per page view? Where?</p>
<p>Go to Quick Links up top, Edit Options, scroll down to Thread Display Options.</p>
<p>Your life will never be the same again.</p>
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In your defense? GoldShadow = SingDance?</p>
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I was just arguing the point that they could be considered critical. I totally don’t think 60 patients were transported from the same location in one night.</p>
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<p>Thanks. Now I can really put this scroll wheel to use.</p>
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No, Platt mentioned the “ambulance thing” and then suggested SingDance “admit defeat” before it kept going. Since I was part of the “ambulance thing”…
Glad to hear it. You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced 40 ppp.</p>
<p>I can’t stand long amounts of posts per page.</p>
<p>Actually, with many critical patients, much of our interventions are done on scene in the ambulance (an IV, intubation and EKG are usually done in my rig before we roll wheels). Additionally, with critical patients we tend to be in the hospital for a longer amount of time in order to transfer information to hospital staff and restock supplies and prep the rig. So, while transport times may be shorter, the total time out of service is longer. You would be surprised at what medics and EMTs can do prehospital.</p>
<p>I take it you dont work on in EMS?</p>
<p>If you’re referring to me, I do work in EMS (well, did for a few years, not at the moment).</p>
<p>EMT-Bs really don’t do much. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy EMS and am very happy I’ve done it. But EMT-Bs have a very limited scope of practice and little training and education (it’s the nature of the beast - in this case, the “beast” being a 120 hour course anybody can take). 90% of what an EMT-B does can be summarized with (C)ABCs. Medics obviously do much more.</p>
<p>In my experience, in an emergency, we did as much en route as possible rather than staying at the scene. Transferring information took about the same amount of time for all calls, and in cases where we had to go to another call right away, restocking was postponed (there was always enough of everything on the rig for at least a couple calls), and prepping the rig was done quickly while the patient and info were being transferred.</p>
<p>I think you understate what EMT-Bs can do. With CON ED I can do most of what an EMT-I99 can do. Now, your service may not have allowed you to do much more than drive, but my service actually lets me get my hands dirty and run calls.</p>
<p>I’m just saying what I know from the inside. I’m not the one making these things up if they are.</p>
<p>Wait, this thread appears to be 40 pages for some of you? It’s five for me. o.O</p>