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[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[that-trans-lad]

Check out my instagram where you can see more into my life (school, work, cats, and hobbies) and less focused on being transgender.

A lot of you have asked for my gym routine so this will probably be where I will post them.

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[longliveblackness]

In the 1960s, if you had a medical emergency, a police van would respond, not the paramedics.

There weren't any government-run emergency services in the U.S. at the time. In Pittsburgh, the police and firemen who answered these calls didn't have proper medical training and "had little, no, or outdated equipment," according to the University of Pittsburgh.

These police emergency vehicles refused to go to some poor Black areas, like the Hill District in Pittsburgh. It was there that the precursor of modern EMT service was born-partly as an employment-generating initiative, partly as a way to provide emergency health care to an underserved minority neighborhood.

Black men organized and founded the country's first emergency medical service (EMS). The Pittsburgh-based group, called Freedom House, wrote a training book that still serves as the basis for EMS training even to this day and pioneered life-saving practices in the field. By the mid-1970s, the success made the city government take notice, and it soon took over the program.

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En la década de los 60, si había una emergencia médica, una camioneta de la policía respondía, no los paramédicos.

En ese momento, en Estados Unidos no había ningún servicio de emergencia administrado por el gobierno. En Pittsburgh, la policía y los bomberos que respondían a las llamados no tenían la formación médica adecuada y "tenían poco, ningún equipo o equipo obsoleto", según la Universidad de Pittsburgh.

Estos vehículos policiales de emergencia se negaban a ir a algunas zonas negras pobres, como Distrito Hill en Pittsburgh. Fue allí donde nació el precursor del servicio moderno de Paramédicos Técnicos de Emergencias Médicas, en parte como una iniciativa generadora de empleo y en parte como una forma de brindar atención médica de emergencia a los vecindarios desatendidos.

Un grupo de hombres negros organizaron y fundaron el primer servicio médico de emergencia del país. El grupo con sede en Pittsburgh, llamado Freedom House (Casa de la Libertad), escribió un libro de capacitación que, incluso hoy en día, sirve como base para la capacitación de servicios médicos de emergencia y fue pionero en prácticas que salvan vidas en el campo. A mediados de la década de los 70, el éxito hizo que el gobierno de la ciudad se diera cuenta y pronto se hizo cargo del programa.

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[jurassicsickfics]

Hi! Could you come up with some sickie/whumpee prompts for a paramedic?

Of course! Hope you enjoy.

Sickfic Prompts for a Paradmedic 🚑:

Paramedic Scenarios:

1: Realizing way too late that the reason they're suddenly queasy at the sight of blood (which they've gotten well used to) is because of an oncoming stomach bug

2: They were injured too in whatever happened to their patient, and they find themselves crying while trying to comfort their patient.

3: Getting carsick during the ambulance ride to the hospital and desperately trying not to throw up in front of their panicking patient.

4: A paramedic who's new on the job passing out at the sight of a particularly gruesome injury.

5: Starting to have a panic attack and trying desperately to stop it, but it's no use. This situation is just too terrifying.

Patient scenarios:

1: On the flipside, patient getting carsick in the ambulance as if just to add even more discomfort that they did not need.

2: Being completely unable to stop crying due to fear and or pain.

3: Accidentally throwing up on paramedic to add embarrassment to everything else.

4: Passing out or puking at the sight of their OWN blood.

5: Crying to be held even though their injuries force them to be left lying flat on the stretcher.

#sicknario #sickfic prompts #sickfic #emeto prompt #hurt/comfort prompts #whump prompt #paramedics

[aceofwhump]

Hi Do you know of a gif of a unconscious guy laying in the snow and he's turned over by paramedics and he's pale and his lips are blue from the cold And there a helicopter in the background

Oh that is very specific. Let me think..... Could it be one of these?

9-1-1 Lone Star 3x02

Arctic Air 3x08

Walking Out

Infinite Storm (2022)

Die Bergretter

Sorry that's all I've got for right now.

#whump #mod replies #hypothermia #snow #cold #freezing #paramedics #whump help

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#elijah mcclain #criminally negligent homicide #paramedics #sedation #wrongful death #died in police custody #first responders

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The B.C. government is hiring 271 new full-time paramedics to serve 60 rural and remote communities, and is shifting the staffing model for paramedics in line with recommendations from those in the sector. Thursday’s changes include the phasing out of the “scheduled on-call” shift in certain communities. Twenty-one of them will now move towards what’s described as an “alpha” 24/7 model that will triple the amount of time on-duty paramedics are in the station. Fourteen will shift to a “kilo” model that includes a full-time permanent unit chief, providing more flexible staffing options, and 25 will use the “mix shift” framework, designed to improve work-life balance through a doubling of on-duty staff time.

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[spockvarietyhour]

The Ottawa Paramedics' Multi-Patient Unit, a custom-made bus that can transport up to 3 patients on stretchers. (via twitter)

#Ottawa #Multi Patient Unit #Bus #Vehicles #Ambulance #paramedics #ambulance service #hide and queue

[bnhaoncall]

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[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Ambulances costing millions, but where’s the money for paramedics to staff them.

This seems backwards?

#uk politics #NHS #ambulances #emergency medicine #paramedics

[diannaphantom27]

Quirkless Paramedic Izuku

Okay. Idea. You know how I’m some cities Paramedics are stationed in firehouses? What if in MHA there are paramedics stationed in Hero Agencies?

So like, Izuku doesn’t get OFA. He still applied to Hero Schools, but only UA even lets him try. He still saves Uraraka, bc he’s Izuku, but it’s much less flashy and dramatic so he only get like 25 Rescue Points. He gets put in Gen Ed. He fights his ass off at the Sports Festival, but is beaten by Todoroki. 2nd year, again makes it to the final round of the Sports Festival and puts up a good fight, but is beaten by a Hero Course student bc no matter how hard he trains, it’s not the same as being trained by Pro-Heroes for the job.

It’s around that time the Teachers realize that Izuku isn’t going to have his dreams crushed and settle into a mediocre desk job like most. And Izuku is angry, especially at Shinso, bc Shinso failed just like Izuku did but he still gets a chance.

It’s Aizawa who eventually points out that there are no Quirk requirements to be a Paramedic like there are for Fire Fighters, Police, Doctors, etc. and that Izuku doesn’t have to be a Pro Hero to save people with a smile (WHICH WAS HIS TRUE DREAM).

He graduates. Goes to the Paramedic academy. Deals with discrimination from his mentors and peers. Is assigned the worst areas. Is pushed into failing. But rises above every time. Eventually working his way to the coveted position of Hero Agency Paramedic just as Class 1-A is finishing their sidekick years.

When Izuku is assigned to a new Agency as one of their paramedics, he expects it to be another attempt to break him and force him out. Of course, that was their intention, but the new agency is one all of 1-A started. They expected Izuku to crack under the pressure of being the medic for 20 new heroes and any civilian casualties they cause (typically higher with new heroes). Instead they put him in the perfect environment to thrive bc some of 1-A remember him and are PUMPED to have him working with them.

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[medulla-soblongotcha]

‼️TRIGGER WARNING:‼️ This post is a truncated personal account of the death of my partner. It includes mentions about death, life saving measures and personal trauma.

My partner died unexpectedly in our home two years ago today. I woke up this morning and pushed the significance of today to a dim corner of my mind for exactly two minutes as three of my cats began their pre feeding shark circling on top of me as I lie there in bed at dawn.

I remember everything for days before it happened.

What we did. What we ate. How boring the week was. The dinner we had. I still have the clothes the paramedics sliced off in a frantic ditch effort to put in a large bore line as they fired up the Lucas device which is a machine designed to deliver mechanical chest compressions after every member of the paramedic team had exhausted themselves after doing so many chest compressions they physically couldn’t do anymore themselves.

They were able to get a flutter. Enough to legally transport my partner to the hospital so they wouldn’t have to call and have mortuary services come pick up the body from our home. It was ultimately a psychological service for me alone. The state of Virginia doesn’t allow medical services to transport patients to hospitals if they have already died. They would have had to leave me with the body of my partner in the garage while I waited for the death van.

The house is haunted enough as it is.

I would have had to burn the place to the ground if my brain didn’t crack entirely.

I’m well acquainted with death. I’ve declared several patients, been with still many more as they transitioned beyond to the cosmos. I lost my first best friend in third grade to a drunk driver, and my maternal grandparents at a young age.

When I was young I was so afraid of it, I didn’t fully understand or know what to expect. As a child I would panic in the dark imagining an eternity either in hell for being born queer and doomed to damnation or eternal darkness alone because there was no god but simply nothingness beyond because I was too young to grasp the concept of simply no longer existing.

Now death is just a greedy thief to me: stealing those I hold most dear, refusing to ever give them back, leaving me powerless and empty hearted.

Fuck you, death, you miserable eventuality. You get to have everything, don’t you?

#death #mourning #cpr #Lucas machine #paramedics

[feckcops]

Israeli forces are deliberately shooting at Palestinian paramedics

“It’s not just the frequency of the attacks that has changed, Jumaa said, but the nature of the injuries too. ‘Israeli forces used to shoot Palestinians in their legs, but now intentionally shoot them in the neck or chest, which involves a more serious threat to their lives,’ she explained. During Israel’s raids on Jenin last month – the largest attack in two decades – she operated on three people with neck wounds. Recently, she said, she has also seen a significant number of children among the injured. ‘It is particularly distressing for me, as a mother.’

“Sometimes Jumaa is herself a target; as the attacks on Palestinians intensify, so too do attacks on ambulance workers trying to assist the injured. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), has recently recorded incidents of Israeli soldiers physically assaulting medics and targeting their ambulances with live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters. In total, there were 193 incidents targeting staff and vehicles in 2023 – a 310% increase compared with the same period last year. 

“During the attacks on Jenin last month, Israeli soldiers killed eight Palestinians and injured 50 more, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports. Israeli forces also directly targeted two ambulances belonging to the PRCS with live ammunition. Jumaa, who was in one of these ambulances, said that Israeli forces shot at the engine of the vehicle in order to disable it.

“Several health workers who spoke to Novara Media reported recent incidents of occupation forces blocking ambulances from reaching the injured and from getting them to hospital. 48-year-old paramedic Waleed Abu Alhaija recalled coming within a metre of a casualty in Jenin last month, only for an Israeli sniper to open fire, warning him and his colleagues against evacuating them. ‘The four of us paramedics suffered injuries from shrapnel from the sniper’s fire,’ he said. ‘The injured person continued to bleed until he died.’”

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[soryualeksi]

I've been thinking a lot these past months, since my cherished colleague died, about us people working EMS and what ties is together and how I guess there is a selection bias going on, obviously I guess, with all things people say that *affect* you when you work as EMT or paramedic, how the work influencew you and "makes" people do or feel this and that, and like. The selection bias I think, at this point, is how a lot (I'd say the majority lol) of people choosing this career already bring a certain set of characteristics and like. The majority is "pre-traumatized" already when choosing the field ooor ending up there by lots of little things, all long before their first case that shakes them to the core (which can be anything).

So I'm mostly rambling but I got scolded by my doctor again today for coming in sick only now when I've been sick for 2 weeks lol. And how GODDAMMIT IT'S BAD TO GO TO WORK SICK. And I realized that I only "gave up" and went to the doctor when a colleague suggested that I do.

And I realized that it's always like that lmao.

But not just for me. For pretty much all of us.

So my amused-in-a-bitter-way thought was. "Selection bias again: People who choose a career on the ambulance have NO self-preservation and rely on each other to tell them to take care of their health, physical and mental."

And I remembered this one guy who told me he had a heart attack once and could NOT for the love of god be convinced he needed help until his team physically dragged him to the chest pain unit and raised hell (and the nurses raised hell, too, lol).

And then I remembered all the other times we would go at each other like, "What would you tell a PATIENT in your situation??" - "I would tell them they need help." - "So what does that SAY about your situation???" - "That I need to push harder. :D"

So the bleak observation is... I don't think EMTs/paramedics in general value themselves enough and somehow the career of "I want to help people, but in the most unglamorous, under-appreciated, physically tasking and also SELF-ENDANGERING way :DD" draws us all in lol.

And we all need therapy. But I guess that's true for 99% of society. :'D

#this is incoherent rambling #but it amused me in a dark way #like everyone here is constantly endangering their health #willfully #that's not a good character trait #lol #EMS #EMT #paramedics #medblr #i guess?

[jtemtsocialmediadude]

Friends and family, this week Mike shared that he has been diagnosed with cancer (Hodgkin’s lymphoma), after visiting the doctor for what he thought was a routine scan for an injury. He recently began chemo, and although the outcome is very positive, he has a long road ahead of him. Mike will be out of work during treatment for the next six months. We would like to show our love and support to Mike, Marcela and their three boys (Marko, Franco and Valentino). If you feel moved to help by donating, any amount will be appreciated. Our hope is to help lift some of the financial burden so that Mike can focus on his health and recovery. Please continue to keep the Coutu family in your prayers for strength, comfort and peace. We thank you all so much. God bless.

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

If elected next month, the Manitoba New Democrats say they'll hire 200 paramedics — a pledge that's receiving support from a group that represents first responders in the province.  That plan and a recently announced promise by the NDP to reopen three Winnipeg emergency rooms shuttered by the Progressive Conservative government earned a nod from the advocacy group Paramedic Association of Manitoba.  The Seven Oaks ER closure in 2019 was a "terrible decision for northwest Winnipeg," NDP Leader Wab Kinew said during a Friday morning news conference outside the hospital, located at McPhillips Street and Leila Avenue. "There are a huge number of hours on a given paramedic shift that are being spent transporting people here at Seven Oaks to the Health Sciences Centre, because we no longer have those health services here."

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