tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471726210509022359.post4935108389903674915..comments2023-06-29T08:18:45.978-04:00Comments on East Coast EMT: Three Minutes OutElisabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126379960578268315noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471726210509022359.post-14048447694591811462009-08-12T20:00:08.648-04:002009-08-12T20:00:08.648-04:00Welcome to the world of EMS. I saw today that you ...Welcome to the world of EMS. I saw today that you are following my lonly single Blog. No worries more to come. It is tough becoming the boss, my desk is never clear for very long. <br />I wish you the best of luck, remember the passion even after 10 years of low pay and too many calls. <br />Remember your basics and that patients are people, treat them that way. <br />MICP2683Micp2683https://www.blogger.com/profile/14225743737749317296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471726210509022359.post-10267224997035889842009-08-05T09:16:25.303-04:002009-08-05T09:16:25.303-04:00Well hi there... I just noticed you are following ...Well hi there... I just noticed you are following my blog so I thought I would stop by and say hello. I'm looking forward to reading more of your blog. :)..https://www.blogger.com/profile/15436397363420611162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471726210509022359.post-49356822569568834392009-08-01T10:42:54.777-04:002009-08-01T10:42:54.777-04:00Ahhh the memories.. To think of all of the great t...Ahhh the memories.. To think of all of the great times I've had throwing EMT students into codes. I tel you, the look of shock and horror on their faces is just priceless.<br /><br />It's not to be mean, just to acclimate them to the show.<br /><br />I remember one where the Pt had a colostomy bag that kept filling up with each compression. We had to keep "burping" it to keep it from exploding in a shower of gastric contents.<br /><br />Guess whose job it was to burp the colostomy? Heh heh.. I love EMT students.<br /><br />Nice blog, keep up with it. I'll check in from time to time.Ckemtphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02120372673086912853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471726210509022359.post-64423162987361200202009-07-31T18:38:55.203-04:002009-07-31T18:38:55.203-04:00Yay!! Comments work this way!
Thanks Medic999 for...Yay!! Comments work this way!<br />Thanks Medic999 for helpin us out!<br /><br />I must say, the initial compressions were the most gross for me. Crackin a sternum is a nasty feeling. <br /><br />You ask about our first call we ever ran the other day and mine was so long ago, I cant really remember what it was. But this post of yours does remind me of the first time for something.<br /><br />We get on scene early morning to a chest pain/trouble breathing call in a very nice over 55 community. I was still a very new EMT at the time. The wife is frantic, she's trying to gather meds and tell us his medical history. We walk into the bedroom and there sat on the end of the bed a very short of breath older gentleman. He looked 50 although he was 65. In very good shape and quite honestly very handsome. (wierd things stick with you years later) He was having chest pains, and eating rolaids like they were candy. The medics got a line and 02 on him, hooked him up to the monitor and gave him a nitro. <br /><br />I chatted with him doing the assesment and getting history. He was such a gentleman. He was talking to me and telling his wife in the next breath he loved her. He told her he would be alright. As we transfered him to the stretcher he coded. The rest of the story is the same as every other code as they tend to blur together. Although it was my first time doing CPR on a live/dead person and not "annie". He was called by the ER doc an hour after he arrived in the ER.<br /><br />What remains with me to this day is I was talking to him one minute and watched him die the next. I listened to his last words to his wife of 48 years. Some calls just stick with you. This was the first of many I remember like they were yesterday and it was an awakening of what I'd really gotten myself into. And although I was sad he died, I knew I loved my job at that moment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07083141849691624128noreply@blogger.com