Work Related Injury Paper

While reviewing possible articles for this assignment, I found some very interesting statistics that surprised myself, and my husband, who is also a paramedic. Normally you would think the typical work related injuries among EMTs and paramedics to be muscular or tendon related, as well as neck, back, wrist and knee related due to heavy lifting and moving. And yes of course, we did find these injuries, but there were more important issue that have been brought to light. Statistics reported from EMSWorld.com in their “Work-Related Injuries among EMTs and Paramedics in Western Turkey” (12.12.14) showed injuries surprisingly not related to the moving of patients as expected. Although this study was completed in another country, I feel the same types of injuries are begin reported here in the states. For instance, their study of 163 EMS …show more content…
Fortunatley, after further digging into the reports, she found that the larger number of females that were assaulted were not firefighters, but employed within the department as EMTs and paramedics. With this new information, she gathered that paramedics were “twelvefold more likely than firefighters to be assaulted”. Taylor also revealed the employees she spoke with felt overworked and overstressed, having no turnaround time from one job to the other, no rest or destressing time after traumatic jobs, and with no meal time allotted, most meals were eaten quickly between emergency calls. And with all this already on their plate, EMTs and paramedics respond to all types of emergencies, many categorized as “unknown”, which are many times dangerous situations. As police officers are trained to respond to such emergencies, emergency medical providers have no such training and can be placed in the same dangerous