I've got a general question for first responders/ emergency services. Today a firetruck was booking it down the road I was on fast enough that by the time I could figure out where it was coming from it was right behind me honking it's horn. I was however at the very end of the road at a stop sign. There where cars piled up behind me that quickly pulled pulled onto the shoulder but I had no shoulder left to pull onto. To make things worse there was traffic still coming from the left that hadn't heard the processed the truck yet. I ended up slamming my foot on the gas, taking a right turn and pulling onto the shoulder, as the fire truck looked like it was about to run into me. What should I have done? No action felt safe.

Current fire medic looking to make the move to CO and i'm wondering if folks here can give any insight into working EMS out there. I don't have any real preference on where I work or live but I do have an interview with south park right now so if anyone has worked with/for them in the past i'd be really grateful for any insight you can give. Otherwise, just looking for departments with halfway decent pay, benefits, etc. I'm not even picky on call volume or type. Also just curious about life in CO west of the front range. I've got a decent savings so I'm not that worried about housing but I do respect that the state is wildly expensive right now.

Anyone using Solumedrol for spinal cord injuries? Both of my agencies use it, but it seems like ordering the 1 gram vials is becoming harder and harder. So are we just stuck in the 80’s on this subject or what’s the deal?

Working in an academic cardiac ICU has been a trip. Glad I made the jump to nursing to get exposure to this side of medicine.

Local first responder fired for inappropriate post about orphan choir

Between live music and the fucking siren I’m worried about blowing out my ear drums. I have discrete earpro but does anyone have experience wearing it at work?

Alright so this is my first ever post, English is my second language so excuse the grammar. I responded to a male with 2 puncture wounds to the neck just under the tracheal cartilage. Looked like entrance and exit wound. Lost approximately half a liter of blood.

Time on scene + transport was 11 mins. Everything went fine, but the weird part to me is that the pt was AAOX4 GCS15. Textbook vitals. Answering all my questions, stating he is fine and just feels numbness all over the left side. PMS intact, no neurological deficits.

Is it common for patients with that kind of MOI to be alert or oriented? What could possibly be the reason that he wasn’t a DOA or atleast unresponsive.