Archive for the ‘WVRS’ Category

6 foot fall; not serious? No Auditing?

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

I ran across a story the other day about an England EMS service that screwed up and was categorizing falls from a height of more than 6 feet not serious enough to warrant an emergency response (within 8 minutes). So the initial read (admittedly from slashdot), made the impression that there ...

Strange

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The state of Maryland says I'm a certified EMT-B now. Scary.

N’allez pas trop vite

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Don't go too fast. Me thinks this is something that I need to take to heart.  A friend of mine recently reamed me out for going too fast and being too busy.  I can understand this I suppose, what with work, the Rescue Squad, and class... but I've got this need ...

Seatbelts

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=s1HV5h4K8D0[/youtube] Doesn't need any comment from me.

Best and Worst

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

The best part of my weekends?  Being able to say I helped with a pin job on the D.C. Beltway that saw a priority 1 trauma patient successfully extracted and transported in a minimum amount of time.  She lived. The worst part? Having to perform CPR at 4 a.m. on a ...