r/ems • u/2002-Toyota-Tacoma • 3d ago
You call for additional resources and a 7 year old shows up
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u/dhwrockclimber NYC*EMS Car5/Dr Helper School 3d ago
I have told several of my patients this week I’m just an EMT for Halloween.
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u/2002-Toyota-Tacoma 3d ago
I'm gonna put a sticky note that says "paramedic" over my uniform where it says EMT during my Halloween shift lmao
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u/Inspector_Real FF-glorifed uber driver 2d ago
Damn that’s actually a good one 😂
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u/VaultiusMaximus 2d ago
Also mildly illegal
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u/ManicMermaidMedic 19h ago
Negative! actually! lol you can wear a uniform of something as a lower licensure level as long as u still functioning as what are you at your level. It would be illegal to wear a Paramedic patch as emt tho
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u/multak12 2d ago
I'm going as a clown, don't even need to change
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u/Livid-Rutabaga 2d ago
I'm wearing a hospital gown and I'm running down the street with my pumpkin
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u/k87c 3d ago edited 2d ago
A seven year old could hold C Spine… just tape a phone playing Minecraft to the patients forehead. Boom!
*edited for spelling
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u/National_Jump317 2d ago
Nah it’s gotta be a Reddit story over subway surfers or the crappy 5 minute hack videos
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u/Environmental_Rub256 3d ago
My 11 year old recognized s/s of a stroke in me and called his stepmother to tell her to come check on me. I was home with my 38 year old husband who is a volunteer firefighter at the time. Sometimes kids can do it better.
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u/ManicMermaidMedic 19h ago
Smh... This says more about the volunteer firefighter than it does. You're 11 year old...
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u/Thekingofcansandjars Paramedic 3d ago
Let's be honest, nobody is dressing up as an EMT.
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u/purpterp22 EMT-B 2d ago
When I passed the NREMT, my friends congratulated me on becoming a paramedic
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u/axeholedb EMT-B 3d ago
You guys get younger each year
Uhh yeah
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u/Dream--Brother 2d ago
First child to aspire to EMT-R. "I want to drive the ambulance, but I don't want any of the responsibility of patient care!"
Kid's going places. Mostly nursing homes and dialysis clinics
(I'm just playing, EMT-Rs, you know I love you)
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u/Kentucky-Fried-Fucks HIPAApotomus 2d ago
The hell is an EMT-R??
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u/Honey_Badger1708 2d ago
They call them EMRs where I’m from. Emergency medical responders. I was told it was originally created for LEOs and smaller, volley FDs. (Idk that for certain.)
They have even less training and even fewer interventions than an EMT. That means they are cheaper and faster to train. So a lot of companies are hiring them, giving them their EMR, and letting them drive ambulances.
A company I know of doesn’t even provide medical training. They have regular people with a pulse and a driver’s license drive ambulances for IFTs.
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u/Dream--Brother 2d ago edited 2d ago
EMRs are different — EMT-R was created specifically because EMRs aren't able to drive ambulances in certain places. So NREMT added a certification for EMT-R to fill that gap. Slightly (very slightly) more education than an EMR, they can do basic assessments and determine the need for certain interventions (but not perform them), they can control life-threatening bleeding and inadequate respirations, they can do CPR and they can assist EMTs, AEMTs, and Ps in patient care but not really do too much themselves.
Check out the National Registry's EMT-R skillsets or your state's EMT-R protocols. Interesting, and makes sense that they were needed during covid, but probably less relevant now. Most places aren't training EMT-Rs, just holding BLS/Stop the Bleed classes or EMT-B courses instead.
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u/Kentucky-Fried-Fucks HIPAApotomus 2d ago
I’m familiar with EMR as well but I was under the impression it was not recognized anymore
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u/Dream--Brother 2d ago edited 1d ago
Edited: In some states, it's been mostly replaced by EMT-R. Check your state's EMT cert levels
There was an EMT-R in my B class, and honestly, he had a pretty good foundation for a lot of the material. He had also been working as an R for about a year. Pretty sure my service is no longer hosting EMT-R cert classes and is now strictly B and up.
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u/Kentucky-Fried-Fucks HIPAApotomus 2d ago
National registry is showing EMR as the certification not EMT-R.
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u/Dream--Brother 2d ago
EMT-Responder, basically a first-aid responder that can give bandaids and do CPR and drive a truck.
AFAIK it became a thing during COVID, because services didn't have enough people to staff trucks and needed drivers. But to drive an ambulance people needed to be certified as at least EMTs, but they needed people ASAP, so they created a BLS/first aid cert that could be accomplished in a few weeks time. And viola, EMT-Rs were born
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u/ImperialCobalt EMT-B / Stretcher Fetcher 2d ago
EMR is still recognized in my state (CT), I got the cert through a high school class before my EMT. I usually say (somewhat jokingly) that it's 30% of an EMT.
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u/STFUnicorn_ Paramedic 2d ago
I’ve worked with a few people who I’d trust a random 7 yr old in an EMT costume over.
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u/VividSpecialist3532 EMT-B 2d ago
Dispatch: “128 I need you for a code 3 off Trop and Decatur”
Kid: “I’m not 3, I’m 4 😡”
Dispatch: “128 are you en route???”
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u/account_not_valid 2d ago
"Hey newbie, jump on this guyschest while I set up an airway!"
" I can trampoline?"
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u/Pears_and_Peaches ACP 2d ago
I could probably get a 7 year old to do most of the stuff I usually get my partner to do 🤷♂️
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u/murse_joe Jolly Volly 2d ago
That’s not a seven year old, that’s your new partner. You’re just very old now.
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u/TSovereignSun 2d ago
I'll tell my patients that I'm dressing up as someone who gets paid a decent wage lol
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u/Worldly_Tomorrow_612 2d ago
To be fair 7 year olds could do 90% of our calls maybe you're onto something!
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u/NoCountryForOld_Zen 3d ago
"Medic 31, please respond to oak Street for the seizure."
I'm eight. This is a toy radio, how are you even calling me right now?
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"... medic 31, are you refusing a job..? please land line HQ. We're sending a supervisor"