Emergency medical services

you hope to eventually serve? During my paramedic education, I had to fulfill clinical hours in the emergency department at Legacy Salmon Creek. During that time, I’ve interacted with patients who have suffered life-threatening ailments, but many of my interactions were with patients who weren’t experiencing life-threatening episodes. Understandingly, the latter of these patients use the emergency department because they lack the health insurance to afford a primary care physician or the local…

Paramedics are similar to EMTs where they both are quick responders to the sick and injured in emergencies. While responding, paramedics are able to bandage a wound, asses a patient’s condition and identify the path of treatment needed, provide first-aid and life support treatment, transport patients in an ambulance to a hospital, and report knowledge of the patient to the staff at the hospital. Some paramedics are able to work on a helicopter or airplane with the proper training and equipment.…

troubling dilemmas in prehospital care that you have experienced?” 21% of the 400 EMT participants answered that the most troubling dilemmas “were conflicts involving do-not-resuscitate (DNR) situations. (Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medical Services: The Perspective of Emergency Medical Technician). This percentage is hardly surprising when considering the potentially complicated nature of DNRs. DNRs are complicated enough issues but add in suicides in relation to DNRs and it creates an…

RN III to Clinical Nurse Resource Promotion I graduated from nursing school in 2011 and accepted my first nursing position here at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Saint Joseph Hospital in the Emergency Department that same year. I started my orientation with two other staff nurses and began working independently after eight weeks. I remember that I felt so unsure of myself and was frequently asking others for their input on patient cares. After I had been here for about one year, I recall I found…

Over the course of the 90’s paramedicine slowly transitioned to a university course in response to the expanding role. Ambulance services have evolved from providing a simple mode of emergency transport to a provider of definitive care; to currently being a technical field of health providing pre-hospital assessment, diagnoses and treatment. Changes in the roles and skills performed by paramedics have resulted…

the scene,” responded Matt via his radio, as we wore our helmets, checked for gloves, and hopped on our bikes to an apartment off-campus Temple University. Matt was a Field Training Officer at Temple University Emergency Medical Services who had years of experience as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Yana, another EMT on shift had a few months of experience. However, it was my first call as an EMT preceptee. A student had tried to slit her wrists. “We can handle this,” Matt said as he saw…

AAS and FGS: Which is Superior? Anglo-American systems (AAS) and Franco-German systems (FGS) are the two main models for emergency medical services (EMS) that are used internationally. Two countries that have implemented each of these models are the United States and Germany – the United States has implemented the AAS while Germany has implemented the FGS. It is apparent that both systems work, as they have been used for over 40 years, but which one is superior? Although the answer cannot be…

These options equal up to unnecessary training dollars being expended to train new 68Ws and the possible reclassification of the unqualified Soldier, who now faces an uncertain future. The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army (AMEDD) Center and School has recently removed the RCs capacity for meeting their own training requirements. This means that RC Training Commands no longer have the ability to deploy Mobile Training Teams (MTT) to perform…

In a perfect world, brutality, car crashes, and other catastrophes would not occur. Then infections and sickness would be nonexistent. EMTs or paramedics would not have a purpose for their job. Unfortunately, our world is not a perfect place. EMTs or paramedics are globally essential to our society. In Breathe: Essays from a Recovery Paramedic, the author, whom is a former paramedic emphasize the stressful circumstances and difficult incidents that she experienced on a daily basis. Using…

On Wednesday October 2nd, I attended the event Turn The Red Zone Green. A group of students came up with this campaign called the Green Light Campaign. They were hoping to create a safe space as well as stop victim blaming. The group does not agree with the saying no is no, because that means something already occurred that one of the individuals did not agree with. Instead the speaker stressed that it is important to talk about consent. The focus of the event was to educate individuals on…