Ok, so it has been a few months since I last posted on here. I promise you that I will start posting more often..... My goal is going to be weekly to start and then maybe even more than that.

Since the last time I posted on here a lot has happened in this world. Santa Clause visited our houses, we all celebrated the new year, some more than others, We voted a new President in. The funny thing with elections is that no matter who is elected no one is happy! I will admit that I did not utlize my right to vote. Had I voted I would have voted for Obama. Enough about that subject.
I traveled to Apache Junction AZ the first week in January. I was there to assess their fire department to see if we felt they met the requirments for Accredited status. This was a great visit as we did recommend them for Re-accreditation. I was very impressed with the dept and even stated that if I was looking for a job I would go there! Then in March I traveled to Orlando FL for an Accreditation Conference. Had a great time, learned a lot. As you can tell I am really enjoying the whole accrediation stuff, not only for our dept but also as a PEER Assessor and member of a technical working group for the Commision on Fire Accreditation International.

Well, enough about what I have been doing over the past months, time to get down to it.....

Each year someone comes up with a new piece of equipment that is better than the last. I have been in EMS for over 15 years now and still see something that I think, "we have to have that!" The bad part is that we have all these great "tools" but where do we put them? I do agree some of these newer tools are better than previous ones and replacing them is great but someone thinks that we have to have a back up incase the new one fails. Here is where I start to have a problem.... For example... the King LT airways, great airways that work. Most are replacing the Combi tube with these. But some think that you need to continue caring the combi tube as a back up! My question for them then is what is the back up for the combi tube? Tell me what you think? Soon we will have to carry in more bags than we do now to get the tools we may need by the patient.