10 years into being a Paramedic…. This is my life after 10 years…. I’m paramedic‚ I care for the sick or injured in emergency medical settings. People’s lives often depend on how I and my team can quick reaction and competent care. We respond to emergency calls‚ performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities. Now in this essay I am going to tell you what I do and pros and cons to this job. As a paramedic‚ I would need to stay calm while dealing with life and death
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Helicopters have a bad reputation. Many people unfamiliar with them think that helicopters are a collection of rotating parts‚ ready to fly apart and cause disaster at any time. Or they have seen a tail rotor shot off by a missile in an action movie and picture themselves spiraling to the ground‚ victims of inherent instability. People have had to make judgements about the riskiness of helicopter flight without good information‚ not because data about helicopter safety doesn’t exist‚ but because
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Special Report March 2012 Ornge Air Ambulance and Related Services Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Office of the Auditor General of Ontario To the Honourable Speaker of the Legislative Assembly I am pleased to submit to you my Special Report on Ornge Air Ambulance and Related Services to lay before the Assembly‚ as requested by the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and in accordance with Section 17 of the Auditor General Act. Jim McCarter Auditor General March 2012 ©
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without electricity‚ telephone service‚ or water. Damage was estimated at over $20 million. The local power company was in radio contact with the sheriff’s office within 5 minutes and was moving trucks into the area within 40 minutes‚ encountering such hazardous conditions as exposed fuel oil and LP tanks. The telephone company set up an emergency bank of phones. Both companies needed several days to complete repairs. A command post was established to coordinate emergency operations. Local officials
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the healthcare and public protection authorities namely Chicago Department of Public Health‚ Chicago Police Department and Emergency Medical Services Commission of Metropolitan Chicago for initially not understanding the intensity of the situation and employing the relevant preventive measures and also not specifying definite guidelines for the operations of the medical services‚ which saw various loop holes during the situation in the form of announcing Bypass by hospitals at the time when should
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12/7/12 Cited page: American College of Emergency Agency. Website www. Acep.org The law of EMTALA (1986) is where a patient has to follow the rules of the program so that they can get the medical treatment that they need to get and to make sure that they get the right medical treatment that they need to get. So when they go into the emergency room department the doctors have to make sure that the person has to be stabilized and treated
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just over two years later a twenty-year-old male shot and killed twenty-six children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ CT. The increasing frequency and complexities of these incidents demonstrate the need for all emergency agencies to collaborate and train for this sad new reality of society. With the recent rise in Active Shooter Incidents (ASI) the author David C. Billings‚ wrote the Executive Fire Officer Paper‚ EMS Under Fire: Developing an Active Shooter Incident
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and a distance of approximately 200 feet. Three victims were pronounced dead on scene and there were close to three-hundred injured. Luckily the Boston marathon was highly equipped and prepared for the worst and had a lot of first responders and medical personnel in close proximity to come to the victims’ aid very quickly. This research paper will address how effectively the responders managed the incident‚ how they could improve in future incidents‚ the parts of the incident that went well and the
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levels do not reduce or simply cannot cope. Simply consulting with a Medical doctor could be an option as short-term medication will be subscribed but closely monitored by the subscribing doctor (Southern Cross Medical Library‚ n.d). The Employee Assistance programme [EAP] (2014) is one of the best organizations that provides the best care and support in the ambulance sector (2014). Some of the services EPA provides are services like‚ Face-to-face counselling appointment‚ 24/7 phone counselling for
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Training Guide CPR stands for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. This involves the giving if life giving breaths and a series of external chest compression to person who has no breathing and no pulse. Often‚ CPR is associated with medical emergencies such as heart attack‚ drowning‚ chocking. It should be noted however that CPR is applicable to any situation where in the victim or patient has no breathing and no signs of life The Chain of Survival The chain of survival involves
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