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CHP Explorer
11-29-1999, 11:00 PM
So are all officers EMR or you have to submit a memo.
CHP Explorer
10-15-2006, 09:58 PM
How does an officer get to be an EMT?
23109
10-15-2006, 10:40 PM
How does an officer get to be an EMT?

EMT ? You put in a memo and request it...it's like DRE training and such.

Paramedic? I believe you pay your way through the classes yourself.
Bosco
10-16-2006, 08:50 AM
How does an officer get to be an EMT?

EMT ? You put in a memo and request it...it's like DRE training and such.

Paramedic? I believe you pay your way through the classes yourself.

You sure about this??? I was an EMT that got decertified for missing a class somewhere. I never had a choice to recertify. I highly doubt the department would let anyone put in to be an EMT when they have obviously been trying to kill the program for 10 years.
Officer_Grady
10-16-2006, 03:20 PM
bosco, you sense that in your neck of the woods too? First they give you the training, then they don't want to maintain your training. What gives?
webfoots
10-16-2006, 03:34 PM
What additional duties or pay go along with being EMT trained as an officer?
RodeoChippie
10-16-2006, 04:43 PM
What additional duties or pay go along with being EMT trained as an officer?
None. The best part of being an EMT is that I get a day off the road for training every 6 months and I have the training to take care of my family when they get hurt.
G-Man
10-16-2006, 04:56 PM
How does an officer get to be an EMT?

In order to be an EMT with the department now, you have have your EMT Cert. They used to train you as an EMT at the Academy now it is called EMR. I had my EMT cert before I got hired and I get scheduled for the training Mods every so often.
bcjack
10-16-2006, 06:49 PM
No more EMT at the Academy?????

I thought the CHP was going to end up with everyone an EMT... That's too bad if they killed the program...
RodeoChippie
10-17-2006, 05:31 AM
Its my understanding that the EMR classification was created by the CHP to replace EMT so they would not be held to the same recertification process as EMT. As it is now, EMTs must recertify in one of the four modules every 6 months, working through all four mods in a two year period. An EMR only has to recertify once every three years. I have also been told that the training is almost identical except the EMR don't administer o2. This info is second hand, so take it for what its worth.
Bosco
10-17-2006, 10:45 AM
bosco, you sense that in your neck of the woods too? First they give you the training, then they don't want to maintain your training. What gives?

My guess for canning the EMT program is the cost of training. I hate to do EMT stuff, but I liked having the extra training (and the extra days off the road didn't hurt). Kind of a relief though now that my scope has narrowed for liability.
G-Man
10-17-2006, 05:28 PM
emr's can do O2. they cannot do traction splinting.
RodeoChippie
10-17-2006, 07:24 PM
emr's can do O2. they cannot do traction splinting.
10-4 I stand corrected.
Lucky Seven
10-17-2006, 11:55 PM
Last I heard all RP officers still have to be EMT certified.

The EMT program was a project that was to have eventually had all officers certified. Unfortunately, there was a cost analysis that apparently revealed it was not effective based on treatment submission forms. The program is not gone but has been cut significantly.
Mac
10-18-2006, 12:46 PM
So are all officers EMR or you have to submit a memo.
All officers are EMR. Mandatory training.
E433035
10-18-2006, 02:30 PM
This is the first I've heard of the EMR certification. Might it be similar to the First Responder cert. I had as a vol. firefighter? First Responder is the basic level all FFs are required to have and it replaced the Advanced First Aid cert. years ago if I recall.
Everyone on our squad also had to have a separate cert. for the Automatic Defibulator. Any of those in the field with the CHP yet?
SB 405
10-18-2006, 03:05 PM
I've been trained on those Defibulators at the last two places I've worked. Only problem I noticed with them was the price:shock:
Welpe
10-18-2006, 04:44 PM
I've been trained on those Defibulators at the last two places I've worked. Only problem I noticed with them was the price:shock:

I have training on them too. While I pray I never have to use it, the unit does seem pretty idiot proof.
chico.medic
10-18-2006, 04:58 PM
What's a Defibulator?

AED's (automated external defibrillator) are becoming more and more prevalent in today's society. Pretty much everywhere you go, an AED is close at hand. Airports, malls, restaurants......... And yes, they are pretty idiot proof. Most models are automated and speak to you, telling you what to do. They analyze the patients heart rhythm and determine whether or not to shock the patient. I teach Advanced Cardiac Life Support through The American Heart Association and while I don't have the numbers in front of me, survival rates for sudden cardiac arrest involving ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia (the two cardiac arrhythmias were shocking the patient is indicated) are greatly increased in the cases where the patient was able to receive early defibrillation.
SB 405
10-18-2006, 06:36 PM
"What's a Defibulator?"

Oh for cryin'out loud chico....tomatoe,tomato
Welpe
10-18-2006, 06:59 PM
What's a Defibulator?

Funny, I knew what he meant.
chico.medic
10-18-2006, 10:05 PM
"What's a Defibulator?"

Oh for cryin'out loud chico....tomatoe,tomato




LOL, Are you serious? Try telling that to the instructors @ the Academy. There is correct, and there is incorrect. Heaven forbid the Paramedic points out anything incorrect related to medical jargon. :rolleyes: I thought I was a lot nicer about it than some other people have been regarding LE stuff.
not5150
10-18-2006, 10:11 PM
Can you please pick me up some fallopian tubes at the nearest medical store?? Thanks. :smile:
Welpe
10-18-2006, 11:09 PM
"What's a Defibulator?"

Oh for cryin'out loud chico....tomatoe,tomato




LOL, Are you serious? Try telling that to the instructors @ the Academy. There is correct, and there is incorrect. Heaven forbid the Paramedic points out anything incorrect related to medical jargon. :rolleyes: I thought I was a lot nicer about it than some other people have been regarding LE stuff.

Well I don't think SB 405 is going to be worrying about the instructors at the Academy any time soon. :lol:

Unless SB found a reverse aging miracle? :shock:
SB 405
10-19-2006, 07:24 AM
And it's not as if someone at work called for the Defibulator I'd come running in with a microwave oven under my arm.
chico.medic
10-19-2006, 03:20 PM
:lol: :lol:

You guys are a riot. I once used a Zippo and a car battery and a section of copper wire to re-start a patients heart in absence of my defibrillator or my microwave........True story!!! :rolleyes:
SB 405
10-19-2006, 03:51 PM
You're a good sport chico,I'm just yankn' your chain a little.
PeckerHead
10-19-2006, 06:46 PM
Bigredmedic (Chico) let me guess, the Zippo was to light everyones smokes while they looked down at the patient and said "MAN!, That looks like it really hurts!"
chico.medic
10-19-2006, 10:49 PM
Bigredmedic (Chico) let me guess, the Zippo was to light everyones smokes while they looked down at the patient and said "MAN!, That looks like it really hurts!"
A CHP officer in Alturas gave me the nick name "Grande Rojo"........So Big Red kinda followed suit after that.........What are you gonna do when your 6'4'' and irish?