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by Para
Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:50 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Ambulance Service Recruitment Age Poll
Replies: 11
Views: 6081

STANT -

How old are you? Im Northern region and was qualified Para at 25.

Interesting.
by Para
Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:25 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: ST JOHN AMBULANCE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Replies: 27
Views: 24580

Once the vollies are qualified they are able to work just like any member of paid staff. Sometime's 2 vollies will roster themselves on and it will give us an additional car, sometimes they jump on as thirds and we rotate job for job, and sometimes they are offered casual paid shifts - depends on wh...
by Para
Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:22 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: ST JOHN AMBULANCE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Replies: 27
Views: 24580

To be an ICP you are required to complete the Advanced Diploma of Paramedical Science, complete clinical log books then pass in Viva Voce which is a verbal question & answer session with a senior member of the paramedic training college (PTC), the operations manager and they sometimes throw in a...
by Para
Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:04 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: ST JOHN AMBULANCE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Replies: 27
Views: 24580

MMW - That has not been the case since I have been employed - will ask some of the old timers. The Ambulance service is entirely separate entity however we do work closely with the volunteers. The volunteers can also be trained right up to Intensive Care Paramedic level, the only ambulance service i...
by Para
Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:07 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: ST JOHN AMBULANCE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Replies: 27
Views: 24580

The attendant seat is not in the right position - it does slide forward however I still find myself kneeling between the seat and the stretcher - or sitting on the spare stretcher to maintain the airway once established. The ford is really good at night - lights up well - it has strobes in the headl...
by Para
Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:23 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: ST JOHN AMBULANCE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Replies: 27
Views: 24580

Here you go - hopefully they worked if not Im' sure some guru can have a look at the code and work it out. I fix people not computers. Cheers http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6614/007lc5.jpg http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4827/0072st8.jpg http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9072/newnerctb7.jpg ...
by Para
Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:12 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: ST JOHN AMBULANCE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Replies: 27
Views: 24580

St John NT

I'm a para in the NT will get some pics for you - we have some new mercs which catch your eye.
by Para
Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:58 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Pre-Hospital Questions & Resources
Replies: 142
Views: 53805

ET or LMA

I prefer ET intubation - protects the airway from aspiration and provides an additional drug route. The use of an LMA is extremely limited, its merely an "internal" face mask, really dont like its use prehospital, unless there is a failed intubation I wouldn't use it. Really it only rests ...