Emergency contraception

Paramedics are repeatedly exposed to critical incidents. Critical incidents are events involving death, life-threatening injury, a crisis situation with a need for rescue or emergency that may result in stress-related reactions and the development of PTSD. Statistics show “paramedics have the highest incidence of PTSD, higher than police or firefighters (McFarlane, Williamson, & Barton, 2009), reporting that up to 22%, or more than one fifth, of paramedics will develop PTSD (Bennett et al.,…

Program Introduction The Texas Fire Chiefs Recognition Program is a voluntary process where fire departments in Texas prove their compliance with Texas fire service’s current Best Practices. These Best Practices were carefully developed by Texas Fire Service professionals to assist departments in the efficient and effective delivery of service and the protection of individual’s rights. The Texas Fire Chiefs Association developed the Recognition Program to assist Texas departments in meeting…

EMT stands for Emergency Medical Technicians. EMTs and Paramedics have the same knowledge and skills to take care of patients. The biggest difference between them is their scope of practice. They’re usually associated with 911, like operators of 911. They accept the blame for to commonplace medical emergency, but the most common are car accidents, childbirth, violent traumas, heart attacks and accidents. Their mission is to assess the medical needs of sick people and their injuries, and then…

Why should firemen be EMT’S A Lot of people think all firemen do is sleep and watch TV, There not wrong we do sleep and Watch TV after all our training and clean the station is done. There is a lot of stuff that we do that people don’t know and its behind the scene. Firemen have to Be physically fit to do our job. We are constantly training to stay in shape we train to learn the new technology for our job or new ways to fight fires. Now why should firemen be Medically trained? All we do is…

companies to venture into. The paramedics of today are not of the same caliper than when I first started my ems career in the late 70s and early 80’s. The education and skills that are now required makes the current paramedics well versed in emergency care, but lacks in the knowledge of psychological care. For instance, more than once I held the family members hand when informing them that the patient, or their loved one, had died. Simple acts such as making sure…

your body is one of the many things that happens when you are encountering a major situation. Being a paramedic is the job that happens to make you feel as if you're actually doing good in the world. Paramedics are the people who are there in any emergency situation; assisting injures along with transporting those who are ill or injured to the hospital. In this instance, being a paramedic is the occupation that specifically suits my interest. In order to be a paramedic an individual has to…

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and ambulance technician are terms used in some countries to denote a health care provider of emergency medical services.[1] EMTs are clinicians, trained to respond quickly to emergency situations regarding medical issues, traumatic injuries and accident scenes. Under the British system and those that are influenced by it, they are referred to as ambulance technicians (often shortened to techs), while in the American system and its influenced countries, they…

with the worst consequences for humans, goods, properties and the environment. The Hurricane Katrina effects led to its calling as a mega disaster or the costliest natural disaster in American history. In disaster prone areas like in New Orleans, emergency managers can be successful by checking and correcting all mitigation…

Jeremiah Gorham Mrs. Kemmer Language Arts 3B Period 1 4 February 2015 Black smoke rises high into the sky. The wailing of sirens can be heard throughout the neighborhood. Dozens rushed down the street to the site of the fire. Men and women are pulled from the blaze while many watch in shock. The powerful hoses soon douse the flames. The surrounding crowd applauses and cheers for the heroic few. It was at this moment when I had decided that was what I wanted: to become a firefighter. To help…

Literacy in my life comes within my extensive knowledge of the fire and EMS field. I grew up with a father that was a firefighter, and a mother as a nurse. I grew up around the emergency setting, as well as the medical field. My father taught me everything he knew since I can remember. He would tell me stories about how he would get called to a structure fire, and carry my mother and me along. My father would fight the fire while…