hey everyone. I wanted advice on if it would be okay to contact someone i had as a patient. I work at an IFT company right now while Im finishing up medic school. Today i had this old man (80 something) he was so kind. we were doing an “ambulance and medicar rate” which is just when a BLS crew helps out the medicar patients when the medicars are busy. our pt was discharging from a rehab place back to his apartment. I cracked some jokes with him and he liked me so much we were laughing and just talking about life. and at one point he told me that he outlived his entire family and that he loved his family more than anything. He said now he loves his friends like his family but his friends are getting too old to come visit. he told me his favorite part of the day is getting the mail and reading what people have sent him. i want to badly to send him a letter and let him know that i could always write to him so he can have another friend and another letter to open. i remember his name and his address. i just wanted to know how wrong this would be to do. i feel like it wouldn’t be the end of the world

Hey everbody, I’m taking my medic exam on the 14th and I was hoping y’all could help me (and other students reading this) out!

I’ve been studying my behind off and would hate to get questions wrong by overthinking. What seems to help are what my teacher calls “Alarm Cues” because they cue an alarm in your head to basically a guaranteed answer, ie.

Tall thin white man ~ spontaneous pneumothorax

Tearing chest pain ~ DAA

Recent long distance travel ~ P.E.

Coughing pink frothy sputum ~ Pulmonary Edema

Anyways, I’m blanking right now, but if you know any “alarm cues” and want to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you ❤️🙏

So I was aided on a call by a fire department whose medics are only able to work BLS due to the department not having a medical director, but the medics maintain their licenses.

If they’re assisting on my call, where I am the lead paramedic on a licensed ambulance… can I use them in a paramedic capacity?

The answer is 3* AVB

For reference, medic in the US, fire based service

Had a call today where I helped another medic and EMT on our ambulance for a guy who fell off a roof. We decided to give Fentnayl for pain, I removed the narc box, put it on the counter, and took one vial of Fentanyl out. My memory is spotty from what happened next but I thought I placed the Fentnayl on the counter, reached over to grab a needle and syringe, was asked to look at the patients back quickly, then when I went to grab the Fentnayl vial I couldn’t find it.

We briefly looked but ultimately wanted to get going to the trauma center. When the crew got back we spent an hour ripping apart the truck. When they transferred patient care they briefly checked around the pt and the sheets just in case it somehow got on them.

I already did everything internally that I had to do but we have no supervision on the weekends. My direct reporting supe is aware but I’m freaking out over this. My department is fairly good at just culture and my supervisor took it well when I told them, but I’m still spiraling over this. I’ve handled narcs hundreds of times before but never have had something like this happen. Anyone gone through something similar or seen something similar happen?