The Long Emergency

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…

gone to Santa Cruz, California for a vacation. They were at the boardwalk, and since the rides were closed, chilling out at the beach was the best option. Brynn was swimming, and April was trying to splash Iris, who was sitting near the beach. After a long day of playing and getting soaked in the salty and playful water, the three headed back to the hotel. “I wish I could go to the beach everyday. The water speaks to me,” said April. “Yeah, it’s cold in New Jersey.” Brynn remaked. The three…

Company No. 1 and was established in 1887. Into the early 20th century the Department began to fully expand its operations such as improved membership benefits, use of motorized apparatus, creation of the Mountain Patrol, and the implementation of the Emergency Medical Service System. In 1915, the Department changed over to a two-platoon system, requiring members to work a 12-hour day or 12-hour night shift for a total of 72 hours per week. Until then, members worked full-time with one day…

Introduction: The book “Would You Kill the Fat Man?” by David Edmonds, presents a philosophical discussion on the ethical dilemma called the trolley problem. The situation that is proposed is that a runaway train is headed towards a group of five people who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five of the people. You are standing nearby and have the option to pull a lever to to redirect the train to a different route, which has one man tied to the track…

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.…

Disaster Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of every community. In fact, emergency…

are Mazzeno and Russell (2015). For memory, the human losses accounted for more than 1,800 people; the destructions’ costs were estimated at $125 billion, more than 1, 5 million people were evacuated, and nearly 80% of the city was flooded for many long days according to Russell (2015). A look on some images of the event takes me to pass out a…

and billing for such care was a priority to administrators. I commonly refer to such people as “carpet people”. I think that they must have has some interaction with taking care of patients at some point in their career, but have walked the carpet so long that they forget what is involved. Some of my coworkers, mostly carpet people, are not so pleased with my terminology, but sometimes I am not so pleased with their train…

cleaned and sown up. I learned about the types of knots that were used to secure the stitches and the importance of counting how many sharps there was before and after the procedure. I actually assisted multiple times throughout my four days in the emergency department. Another very important skill I got to enhance through practicing was starting intravenous access…

refuse care. EMT's have a high burnout rate. They work long hours with low pay, and do not get paid like they maybe should for as hard as they work, or for as much as they see as well as go through. Imagine dreading to get up and go to work in the mornings, or feeling no vale to an employer, rather than just another person to fill spots to be on call. Even as far as feeling disillusionment and frustration with the work they…