Jump to content
RemedySpot.com

Oil Spill Operations

Rate this topic


Guest guest

Recommended Posts

Guest guest

Austin,

The Medics and EMTs operating during the spill are under medical direction of

their agency's MD and licensed in Louisiana.

The reciprocity provided by Jindal's order is a temporary, valid license to

operate in Louisiana, under the terms of the order. NREMTs that are going out to

work are being approved in a emergency fashion in much the same way, but with no

requirement of supervision.

I'm not sure how legality applies 3 miles or more offshore. That's US Federal

Waters and all operations there are being directed by the Coast Guard, with the

vessels paid for by BP, and medics provided by the major carriers. Anyone know

previous law on that? Since there is no Federal standard for EMT, you are

operating as an extension of the medical director... if I remember right, that's

borrowed servant, right legal beagles?

-Brad

>

> > An attorney friend of mine has a technical term for

> someone practicing

> > without a license, especially medics who work

> offshore. The term is

> > " payday " .

> >

> > If you know of anyone who is practicing without a

> license I encourage you to

> > report it to the proper authorities.

>

>

>

> ------------------------------------

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest guest

Jim,

That's an excellent description of how it is. Much more clinic work than

emergencies. However, real emergencies do happen and are challenging, since

you're not 10 minutes from a level 1 trauma center, weather is bad and the birds

can't fly, and swells are running 30 feet and the wind is gusting at 72 mph..

Gene

Re: FW: Oil Spill Operations

very good points, gene. i don't do that contract stuff. that is a mess, i agree.

i work for a company (BTW we don't drill-we do other stuff) my actual job title

is EHS advisor (Environmental, health, safety advisor) some companies call it

HSE (same thing, different acronymal order-i just made up a word!) well over 90%

of my work is preventative so i don't HAVE to do paramedic stuff, i make general

safety inspections, make sure people are wearing appropriate PPE, inspect such

things as fire extinguishers/ladder/fall protection systems, food sanitation ,

water testing,etc.

it's more of an occupational health environmental than EMS. I've had to treat

such diverse stuff as athlete's foot, skin infections, pink eye, bronchitis,

sinusitis, tonsillitis, dental absesses (sp?) if there are saturation divers on

board there are very complex neuro exams pre and post saturation to do and

having to assess them through a TV camera which is inside the chamber. they can

only get PO meds, if something really bad happens to them it's 3 hours to get

pressed down the their pressure and 72-120 hours to get you and them

decompressed back to atmospheric pressure.

in general for everyone on board the good side is that i know a) their

history/meds/allergies

i have some normal medical equipment and some stuff that would be considered off

the wall from what i've been used to: woods' lamp/fluorscein dye, reflex hammer,

tuning fork, steri-strips. i can't suture in the gulf of mexico but we do in SE

asia, etc. I have no pedi/neonatal equipment. i have 36 OTC and 86 prescription

meds and several abx, meds for gout, IBS. it's a whole different world. most of

them time i'm myself (no EMT,FF,etc to help) our medical control isn't an ED doc

but i have internal medicine, occupational med doc and a dive physician. you can

have epidemics of stuff like MRSA and GI illness. it's like a cruise ship but

the gumbo is better and there is no karoake.

jim davis

EHS Advisor

> An attorney friend of mine has a technical term for someone practicing

> without a license, especially medics who work offshore. The term is

> " payday " .

>

> If you know of anyone who is practicing without a license I encourage you to

> report it to the proper authorities.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest guest

Good thoughts, Austin. To clarify, I wasn't really talking about the

established contractors. I had in mind those ambulance operators asking for

medics to work FEMA contracts and stuff like that. That's where the broken

promises come in.

I never found the oilfield operators to be sleazy at all. It's the private

ambulance companies who are trying to get in on this where the sleaze comes in.

As far as salaries go, 30 years ago I was making $2,150 per week (for 84 hours)

and often had 20-30 hours on top of that. That was very good money in those

days since my only expenses were transportation to and from the jumping off

place. I expect that today's medics are probably not paid as much when adjusted

for inflation and so forth.

GG

Re: FW: Oil Spill Operations

>

>

>

>

>

> i work offshore. the ship's master has nothing to do with delegation of medial

care.

> a physician delegates medical care to us and we have protocols/standing orders

just like medics on land have.....

>

> jim davis

>

>

>

>> An attorney friend of mine has a technical term for someone practicing

>

>> without a license, especially medics who work offshore. The term is

>

>> " payday " .

>

>>

>

>> If you know of anyone who is practicing without a license I encourage you to

>

>> report it to the proper authorities.

>

>

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest guest

Understand completely.

Gene

Re: FW: Oil Spill Operations

we have a small helideck so the IFR (2 pilot choppers) are so large they cannot

land on it at night.

it's 24 x 24. if we get above 8-10 foot seas we got towed outta there (i'm on a

barge-no engines) push comes to shove i can have the USCG winch someone off the

helideck

in a stokes (maybe)

jim

> An attorney friend of mine has a technical term for someone practicing

> without a license, especially medics who work offshore. The term is

> " payday " .

>

> If you know of anyone who is practicing without a license I encourage you to

> report it to the proper authorities.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest guest

Understand completely.

Gene

Re: FW: Oil Spill Operations

we have a small helideck so the IFR (2 pilot choppers) are so large they cannot

land on it at night.

it's 24 x 24. if we get above 8-10 foot seas we got towed outta there (i'm on a

barge-no engines) push comes to shove i can have the USCG winch someone off the

helideck

in a stokes (maybe)

jim

> An attorney friend of mine has a technical term for someone practicing

> without a license, especially medics who work offshore. The term is

> " payday " .

>

> If you know of anyone who is practicing without a license I encourage you to

> report it to the proper authorities.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...