Great points Eric.
How many times have you had RT's show up on scene as part of the flight crew and does it chaff you as it does me? We are basically being told we are incapabable of providing in-hospital care by some nurses and then told by those same nurses that another allied HCP can come on our scene and work in our house. Why are we cast aside while RT's are being integrated into air crews in some cases doing IVs, ECG's, Intubation's.....etc...... And oh yeah, I've been in the E. D. when that code came in or that shooting victim was dropped at the doors, I was certainly capable then. ( for IVs, DFib's and Tubes)
Don't mean to go off but who do they think teaches most of those ACLS, PALS, and PHTLS courses? PARAMEDICS
Rich Combs NREMTP, CCEMTP
