The LMRFD seems more worried about people passing background checks, drug tests, and medical examinations and the possible liability for new volunteers and employees who may have a disability. As far as disabilities I thought the ADA made concessions for the disabled, apparently not in Dolan.
If the fire district wants to worry about something, worry about the out of shape and overweight firefighters. The EMT who showed up at my house was an easy 350 pounds.
Each year half of firefighter deaths from heart attacks not running into burning buildings like on TV.
I wonder if some of the current volunteers or employees could pass a physical exam and stress test.
Heart attacks were the leading cause of firefighter deaths in 2015.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Saturday, June 24, 2017
CODE OF ETHICS FOR EMT's and PARAMEDICS
Sadly the EMT Paramedic oath I took many years ago said "I shall also share my medical knowledge with those who may benefit from what I have learned" It's missing from the new Code
Replaced with be nice on social media...
YOUR OPINION ON LMRFD
CODE OF ETHICS FOR EMS PRACTITIONERS
Professional status as an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Practitioner is maintained and enriched by the willingness of the individual practitioner to accept and fulfill obligations to society, other medical professionals, and the EMS profession. As an EMS practitioner, I solemnly pledge myself to the following code of professional ethics:
- To conserve life, alleviate suffering, promote health, do no harm, and encourage the quality and equal availability of emergency medical care.
- To provide services based on human need, with compassion and respect for human dignity, unrestricted by consideration of nationality, race, creed, color, or status; to not judge the merits of the patient’s request for service, nor allow the patient’s socioeconomic status to influence our demeanor or the care that we provide.
- To not use professional knowledge and skills in any enterprise detrimental to the public well being.
- To respect and hold in confidence all information of a confidential nature obtained in the course of professional service unless required by law to divulge such information.
- To use social media in a responsible and professional manner that does not discredit, dishonor, or embarrass an EMS organization, co-workers, other health care practitioners, patients, individuals or the community at large.
- To maintain professional competence, striving always for clinical excellence in the delivery of patient care.
- To assume responsibility in upholding standards of professional practice and education.
- To assume responsibility for individual professional actions and judgment, both in dependent and independent emergency functions, and to know and uphold the laws which affect the practice of EMS.
- To be aware of and participate in matters of legislation and regulation affecting EMS.
- To work cooperatively with EMS associates and other allied healthcare professionals in the best interest of our patients.
- To refuse participation in unethical procedures, and assume the responsibility to expose incompetence or unethical conduct of others to the appropriate authority in a proper and professional manner.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
NEED a Petition To Stop LMRFD Ambulance from Leaving the Fire District.
I don't understand how the LMRFD got stuck providing ambulance service for 2200 square miles. Dolan Springs and Meadview tax payers are supplementing the ambulance service to over 2000 square miles outside of our 144 square mile fire district.
We need to start a petition to keep LMRFD firefighters and the ambulance in the fire district except for mutual aid per mutual aid agreements.
If the people outside the LMRFD want ambulance service and fire service they need to join the fire district or start their own.
When our only ambulance is at mile post 3 on US-93 for a dehydrated hitchhiker and your husband has a heart attack and dies a block from the fire station, don't you want to know why?
Does anyone even check on calls in Meadview? Half the town pays no fire tax, yet gets the same service.
Either keep LMRFD resources in the LMRFD, or make the outlying areas like White Hills, Rosie's, the Chevron next to Rosie's and the first stop pay fire tax
It is not fair to have the poor community of Dolan Springs support 2200 square miles for EMS.
No other Fire District in Arizona allows their only firefighters and ambulance to go 50 miles outside the fire district to make a couple bucks. I don't understand why the people in the LMRFD don't get it.
We need to start a petition to keep LMRFD firefighters and the ambulance in the fire district except for mutual aid per mutual aid agreements.
If the people outside the LMRFD want ambulance service and fire service they need to join the fire district or start their own.
When our only ambulance is at mile post 3 on US-93 for a dehydrated hitchhiker and your husband has a heart attack and dies a block from the fire station, don't you want to know why?
Does anyone even check on calls in Meadview? Half the town pays no fire tax, yet gets the same service.
Either keep LMRFD resources in the LMRFD, or make the outlying areas like White Hills, Rosie's, the Chevron next to Rosie's and the first stop pay fire tax
It is not fair to have the poor community of Dolan Springs support 2200 square miles for EMS.
No other Fire District in Arizona allows their only firefighters and ambulance to go 50 miles outside the fire district to make a couple bucks. I don't understand why the people in the LMRFD don't get it.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
LMRFD Ambulance Crew Asks Sick Patient's If They Want Help To Their Car?
Is This A Common Practice? Has This Happened To You? If so PLEASE Tell Me...
A friend's wife called us about 5 AM one morning. Her husband was having trouble breathing most of the night and he was getting worse. When we got to their house he was sitting on the bed with his hands on his knees leaning over trying to breath. When I asked how he was doing, he answered in short choppy sentences because he was so short of breath.
He wanted me to give him a ride to the ER in Kingman, but just walking about 10 feet to the kitchen table, he was having problems walking and became very short of breath as he reached the table and sat down.
I told him I wasn't comfortable driving him into Kingman in case he went into respiratory arrest. He said he understood because just getting hit with the cold outside air made it very hard to breath. I called 911 and a while later the LMRFD ambulance showed up.
The EMT and paramedic came in and did their assessment. Then the paramedic did something that really surprised me. He asked the patient if he wanted help getting to his car so someone could drive him into the hospital.
WHAT! Any EMT or paramedic I know would have told the patient they need to go by ambulance, and if they refused they would need to sigh a release saying they were going by private car against medical advice.or AMA.
If an EMT or paramedic allow a patient with a serious medical problem like respiratory distress to refuse to be transported after they have assessed the patient and are aware of the condition. If they don't have the patient sign an AMA release and the patient dies, they can be held libel.
I'm afraid this may be a common problem here in the LMRFD. As I was telling another person that the EMT's wanted to load this guy in a car and have someone drive him to the ER, they said that's what they did to my mom.
This time the LMRFD ambulance crew offered to load a frail elderly lady with a broken hip into her car. REALLY....
In my opinion the EMS personal could he held libel in both cases. All I can say is unprofessional.
A friend's wife called us about 5 AM one morning. Her husband was having trouble breathing most of the night and he was getting worse. When we got to their house he was sitting on the bed with his hands on his knees leaning over trying to breath. When I asked how he was doing, he answered in short choppy sentences because he was so short of breath.
He wanted me to give him a ride to the ER in Kingman, but just walking about 10 feet to the kitchen table, he was having problems walking and became very short of breath as he reached the table and sat down.
I told him I wasn't comfortable driving him into Kingman in case he went into respiratory arrest. He said he understood because just getting hit with the cold outside air made it very hard to breath. I called 911 and a while later the LMRFD ambulance showed up.
The EMT and paramedic came in and did their assessment. Then the paramedic did something that really surprised me. He asked the patient if he wanted help getting to his car so someone could drive him into the hospital.
WHAT! Any EMT or paramedic I know would have told the patient they need to go by ambulance, and if they refused they would need to sigh a release saying they were going by private car against medical advice.or AMA.
If an EMT or paramedic allow a patient with a serious medical problem like respiratory distress to refuse to be transported after they have assessed the patient and are aware of the condition. If they don't have the patient sign an AMA release and the patient dies, they can be held libel.
I'm afraid this may be a common problem here in the LMRFD. As I was telling another person that the EMT's wanted to load this guy in a car and have someone drive him to the ER, they said that's what they did to my mom.
This time the LMRFD ambulance crew offered to load a frail elderly lady with a broken hip into her car. REALLY....
In my opinion the EMS personal could he held libel in both cases. All I can say is unprofessional.
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