[FireBeyond]

You're absolutely fine! Definitely a lot other things can also have those influences on temperature, HR. Our EMS system started teaching SIRS (and then qSOFA) to EMS providers to have them tell the charge nurse that the patient "meets Sepsis criteria", because this was being missed in triage and septic patients were spending hours on hours waiting for care.

Paramedics don't get very much in-hospital time here, other than getting intubation experience in the OR with an anesthesiologist.

I appreciate your input, it does not come across at all pretentious - and as a paramedic, I would never want to "not learn more medicine".