Essay On Cardiac Arrest

The tones go off, again. This was the fourth time in the last six hours. A grumble of incomprehensible words come from the loudspeaker as we shuffle our way to the ambulance. Halfway to the patient’s house we realize this is not our normal type of call; someone was in cardiac arrest. Slight panic begins to arise; I can feel it at the bottom of my throat. Although I received my EMT-B certification within the year, this was my first experience with such an event. As we screeched to a halt I froze, I knew I had to reel my thoughts back in and think about what I was taught to do. I grabbed the LUCAS (a CPR chest compression system) and ran in following two other EMTs and a Paramedic.
Proceeding past the crying eyes of family members we found the patient lying in bed unconscious. That’s when we realized this man was someone we knew; he belonged to the local fire department. Being one of our own, the stress level rose. We worked as a team, I assembled the LUCAS, a fellow EMT began cutting off the patient’s clothes and the paramedic inserted an …show more content…
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