Paramedic

Ever since I was a child I wanted to help people and didn’t realize how, until I stepped foot in my 7th grade science class. The day still replays in my mind like it was yesterday. I was walking into a new school, with new people, and I felt like the last leaf stuck on the tree, waiting to fall in place where I belonged, but oddly enough, this one basic anatomy and physiology class made me feel welcomed. What made me feel welcomed wasn’t really the teacher or the students in there, but the…

PREPARATION • Traffic Template • Ruler • Internet Access (i.e. YouTube) • Pencil • Copy Paper • Easer • Traffic Crash Management Guide // http://www.alibris.com/Traffic-Accident-Management-Donald-J-Basham/book/6771463 by Donald J Basham • Quiz • Visual of Traffic Collision and the aftermath (VIDEO) INTRODUCTION Students would be able to create a traffic accident diagram utilizing the above preparation material. Student would be able to follow specific guidelines to create a NOT to Scale…

Timing and Outcome of Therapeutic Hypothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest A study published in 2009 aimed to evaluate the effects of the timing of therapeutic hypothermia treatments on the survival rates and subsequent neurological function at hospital discharge and also 6 and 12 months after the cardiac event. This study evaluated both the effects of the time which it took to reach the target temperature and the time during which the patient was induced into a mold hypothermic state.…

summary The author pointed out that Emergency Care and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) can benefit from mixed methods research. However, the mixed method consists of combining quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The researchers conducted the study to identify the complexities that are characterized within the healthcare system. Also, the research addressed medical errors, behaviors, human interaction, team performance, and communication. By combining mixed method approaches,…

Fear of Driving A Car » Driving Anxiety CureUnderstanding and Controlling it Driving is just another trigger for anxiety or panic attacks and so coupled together is known as driving anxiety attacks. These attacks can get triggered by any number of daily events. Such as, driving, heights, flying, death in the family, problematic relationship etc. As the attack leaves no physical evidence behind, the condition mostly goes undetected or noticed by others around them.Understanding Anxiety attacks…

On April 4th, 2017, I had the opportunity to be part of the care team of Medical City Denton’s (MCD) Emergency Department (ED) as a student nurse. Shortly after the morning ED shift huddle, a patient in her mid-fifties was brought in by paramedics due to a stroke. Upon arrival to the ED, the patient was initially responsive to verbal commands, but took a turn for the worse as she was returning from the radiology department after a computerized tomography (CT) scan. The CT scan indicated…

of the north tower (history.com). About 18 minutes after, the 2nd plane crashed into the 60th floor of the south tower. Soon after the 2nd plane hit, everyone realized that America was now under attack. Almost 3,000 people including firefighters, paramedics and officers died. Only 6 survived their fall and almost 10,000 were severely injured (history.com). The attackers were members of the Islamic group, Al-Qaeda, which was being led by fugitive Osama Bin…

fathomed. I was a young teenager when I discovered my mother slumped over on the floor of her bedroom; beside her was a note to document her final manifesto accompanied by an empty bottle of prescription medication. I watched helplessly as the paramedics wheeled my mother into the back of an ambulance. In those fleeting moments I didn’t know if I would ever see…

Paramedics come face to face with death on a regular basis, for them death is nothing out of the ordinary, just another day at the office. Death is something they have gotten used to, something that does not have much effective on their life’s the majority of the time. In this poem the author portrays how the death of a particular celebrity had an effect on these men. If you were to only read this poem without reading the title you would not know who had died, or why they were so important.…

very important so should be done as soon as the casualty has been stabilised or if possible whilst/before, this is because a bystander can only help an individual to a certain extent because they lack the professional skills that a nurse, doctor or paramedic would provide. So the quicker the individual is in the hands of professionals the better chance they have of having a fast and full recovery. The student may be affected by the incident because they may feel embarrassed by what happened,…