Body Amor was Re: carrying on the job.

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if I swerve or brake hard to avoid bambi then I am the idiot.

Driver was a generic term for anyone that drives.

Thanks for the info on body armor.

Renny

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> Subject: RE: Body Amor was Re: carrying on the job.

> To: texasems-l

> Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 10:05 AM

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Unless you wear it over your head...probably not.? The largest majority of

fatalities in the back of the ambulance are due to head injuries...

Dudley

Body Amor was Re: carrying on the job.

Doc brings up something to think about. While medics getting shot is

not a very big problem, there are many blunt force injurys. Would

wearing a bullet/stab proof vest be a way to help avoid serious

injurys from the EKG that flies into your chest when the idiot that

is driving slams on the brakes? Yes I know secure all items but when

working a serious call we all do stupid things like not secure

equipment or ourselves.

In fact say all items are secure, in fact you are secure but patient

needs something. You release your belt, start to stand up and the

idiot driver swerves to miss a cat sending you flying hitting your

torso. Would body armor absorb some of this impact and thus limit

the amount of internal injurys, broken ribs, ruptured spleens, etc?

Would body armor be an appropriate safety precaution to have? With

Texas heat would they even be wearable?

Just a thought as safety is first rule of EMS even though it seems to

be the first rule forgotten.

Renny Spencer

NR-EMT-I

Paramedic Student

> If you look at statistics, more likely than not ,the gun will be

used on

> you. That is the unfortunate outcome of many concealed handgun

programs

> (which I am for politically). Also, what do you do with the gun

every time

> you enter the hospital? What if the call is a jail, school or

liquor store

> (where guns can't be carried), will your employer provide a proper

lock box

> to lock your gun up when you cannot carry it? You will spend so

much time

> locking and unlocking the gun that the novelty will wear off and

you will

> start leaving it at home. Better yet, if worried, buy body

armor.

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