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Trying to start a TEMS program within our fire department. SWAT wants us and they want us armed. Our Chief wants us to be perimeter. Our Local wants to be sure we're going to be paid for insurance reasons. Was TEMS for a private ambulance service ...
I am the senior medic for our SWAT team and I am armed as well as all of our medics. They must meet the qualifications of our team twice a year. We have 3 LEO and 2 Civilian medics.
All of our medics (EMT-P/T) and doctors are required to be armed. We all attend a reserve officer academy and are sworn. We are expected to be proficient tactical operators but our primary role is medic.
For BLS we use armed LE already on the team (we have ALS providers, but not a Medical Director or ALS kits for ALS support). For ALS, we rely on our (unarmed) Fire-Rescue medics on standby at a distance.
While I understand the importance of experi...
Our TEMS Unit is an unarmed unit who uses SWAT officer protection. We do have emergency proceedures that if we are treating an injured Officer and a threat comes at us we are allowed to use the officers weapon to defend ourselves and the patient
Anyone who has spent any good amount of time in EMS, will certainly tell you that children are not "Little Adults" and should never be treated as such. To start with when doing an assessment on a child you have to get down on their level speak sof...
I belong to a team with similiar circumstances and like yourself, the only grants we got were through local charrities as well, the only other avenue I have heard of is if the swat team gets you stuff through grants they are eligible for, homeland...
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- At 4:24pm on April 4, 2009,
Mark A. Duell said…
- Hey Kevin, hows it going? My son and I were just talking and I mentioned that I had replied to one of your discussions. I mentioned your name and he said that he knew ya. Well, I'm Matts dad. Nice to meet ya long distance!
- At 3:16pm on February 5, 2009,
Betty lou said…
- Hey Kev - How's it goin?
- At 7:13pm on January 31, 2009,
Tracey Baker said… - Thanks kevin--some do and some don't but--the joy of a forum!!!
- At 10:55am on January 31, 2009,
Tracey Baker said…
- WELCOME KEVIN!!!
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Yeah, but those threads aren't nearly as lively as these ones. :)
I suppose I could rise to your challenge, though, and steal a few things from this thread. Some of these things are evidence-based and I hope are easy to agree on; some of them are...
I think the punctuation is the key, the comma equalling OR rather than suggesting that those places were large UK services...
Whilst i'm typing i think i'd like to spend time with the Isle of Wight ambulance service, is the UK's number one perfor...
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