EMS Emergency Trauma Calls

EMS trauma calls are up on the most challenging emergencies EMT and paramedics often face.  If we are smart we use our scene size up, have as much possible information from the dispatcher they can possibly get and hopefully transmit to us. No question our jump bags are ready. Radios in place. Equipment ready to use whether it's jaws of life, a window pop, oxygen or IV's.

No question our skills, training and hopefully experience is all ready so ingrained in us we don't have to stop and think about basics.

But absolutely every trauma call is a different trauma call. Who, what, where, when and how the heck do we manage this one keeping our first responders safe, the patient viable moving as quickly and safely as we can. Patient history. Mode of trauma. Trauma center? Fly or ride? And let's not forget - how many.

How many victims. How many cars. How many ambulances, police, fire. How many liters of O2. How many times have you faced these decisions?

No matter how many times you have, each time will be completely different.

Train. Keep training. Read. Learn from your experiences and from others. Keep updated with EMS networks, magazines, books and the vast amount of knowledge online.

You can never be too prepared, too trained or too confident in anything but the knowledge that you understand the job that needs to be done and that you are prepared to face it head on and adjust as you need to.  Stay safe out there everyone.

Firefighter EMS Police Thanksgiving Memories

Firefighters, EMS and Police celebrate Thanksgiving too. While the world is planning the celebration to include the turkey roasting, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie, firefighters are planning too. We can't help it. While you worry about burning the turkey, we are worried about you burning down the house.

Roasting a turkey is one thing, how about all those people deciding to deep fry the turkey! Structure fires waiting to happen. Yes it has happened on Thanksgiving, on my watch. Way more times than I can count.

Boiling pots of water and fry pans are not innocent cooking tools. Sleeves that hang over the flames while lifting the pot. Handles facing out that children can touch, can get knocked over by someone walking by.

Grease. Oh those grease fires. On the stove. In the oven. And the people who inevitably throw water on it .......

And the candles. People love burning candles especially on holidays. Fall scented, pumpkin scented candles that have started more fires on more holidays than I even care to remember. Children who were burned by the candles adults don't give a thought to when they put them out to impress their company. Medivacs for burned children on any day is awful and on the holidays.....

The roads are packed. The family is stuffed. Don't drink and drive - please don't drink and drive. Slow down it's OK. Too many motor vehicle crashes especially on the holidays. Especially on Thanksgiving.

And if you make it through the night without any of the above happening - you can be sure by midnight when the dishes are cleaned, the company is gone, someone will turn on the self cleaning oven and you will probably get your call then!

Firefighter holiday memories. Reminds me of how much we all have to be thankful for. Reminds me how important it is to take a little time, do a little planning so all of our holidays are happy. And safe.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. Stay Safe. Stay Thankful. Stay Happy.

EMS EMT and Paramedics Honor Veterans Day

EMS EMT and Paramedics Honoring Veterans Day - Thank you to all who have served in our military to keep us safe and free. Thank you to all military troops serving today.  Who can forget thank you to our military families through the years who have sacrificed so much for so many.  To all of our EMT and Paramedics who have served past and present in the military, we salute you this Veterans Day and Every Day!

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EMS Honors Memorial Day

Memorial Day EMS Honors

Memorial Day is honored by EMS every day but especially on this holiday every EMT and Paramedic I know takes some extra time to honor our Military Heroes, so many are Veterans themselves.  Wearing our USA flag pin or patch, hanging a flag on our ambulances, taking part in Memorial Day Parades to honor those who sacrificed everything in wars past and present so that we may be free.  Honoring always our heroes serving today in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines becomes even more special on Memorial Day Weekend. 

EMT and Paramedics Memorial Day Honors - Remembering and Honoring Our Fallen Military Heroes.  Never Forget.

EMS Week EMT and Paramedics

EMS Week For EMT and Paramedics is the third week in May every year and a great time to show appreciation for a special EMT and Paramedic.  Emergency services is there for you when you dial 911 no matter the emergency, the weather or time of time or night.  Responding career paramedics and volunteer EMT and Rescue Squads will save your life, comfort your family and will be there when you need them.

We Honor EMS Week and thank our EMT and Paramedics every day.

Happy EMS Week To Our Paramedic and EMT Friends

EMT All Over

EMT is not just a hobby.  Not just a thing you do when you have a chance.  Whether you are career or volunteer EMS, let's face it.  Responding to emergencies night and day is not just something you do, it's something you feel and someone you are from your EMT cap to your hit the street toes.  Stay Safe All.  This Emergency Services family knows how much you do.

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EMT Strong

EMT's are not often appreciated for how strong they are.  People always think of how strong firefighters are wearing heavy SCBA and bunker gear, hauling charged hose lines, ladders and equipment into structures, onto roofs and working out to stay in shape physically.  Everyone considers Police Officers strong, fighting with bad guys, running and chasing the perps, handcuffs and takedowns.  Just watch any movie or TV show featuring firemen or police they are all strapping strong and physically fit.  But no one ever thinks about how strong an active EMT has to be day in and day out.

  

  

EMS calls mean patients of all sizes and shapes and an EMT may respond with only one or two other people on his ambulance.  They have to carry overstocked first aid bags, defibrillators, oxygen tanks and carrying equipment into the patient with them at rapid speed.  After quick medical intervention and stabilization the patients now have to be carried out to the litter and ambulance, its rare that a patient can be allowed to walk out by themselves.  Imagine carrying full size adults, often very large full size adults laying on a board, reeves or even in a stair chair down flights of stairs.  Imagine doing this during their medical emergency.  Don't forget all the equipment they brought in has to be brought out along with the victim.

Victims of trauma, motor vehicle crashes and fall victims have to be stabilized and maneuvered by EMS personnel often out of crushed cars and awkward locations.  All of course while doing no further harm to their patient.  And no harm to themselves. 

No one really realizes how much physical strength an EMT has to have to respond to their patient, treat them quickly and proficiently and deliver them to the hospital safe and sound for further medical treatment until they actually have to do the job.

Our thanks to all EMS out there sharing their EMT gifts of care, strength, compassion and dedication.

     

   

EMS Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness

EMS Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month because breast cancer screenings save lives and so do EMT and Paramedics.  Here's to wishing we wipe out all the damn cancers in our lifetimes so our children and their children will only hear about it in history books. Damn Cancer.

Never Forget 9/11/01

Never Forget Sept 11 2001

For All Who Were Lost 9/11/01. For All those who lost so much and lives that were shattered. For All Those heroes who searched and cried and survived. Never Forget.

The 2,977 victims included 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon.

Volunteer EMT's and Rescue Squads

EMS is more than just anonymous emergency workers that magically appear when you call 9-1-1.  An EMT takes highly specialized courses to get their certification including 100's of hours of classroom and hands on training.  Learning everything from taking vital signs like blood pressures, pulses and lung sounds to handling trauma injuries and psychiatric emergencies EMT's must be prepared for anything when they jump into their ambulance and respond to your emergency at a moment's notice. 

 

   

Many people don't realize that the EMT that responds to your emergency may be your neighbor, someone who lives in your community and volunteers their time and ability with your local volunteer rescue squad.  They wake up in the middle of the night even though they have a career job to go to the next day, they leave dinner with their families and drop what they are doing because they are that dedicated.

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Emergency Medical Technician Gear Bags and Apparel 

Emergency Medical Technicians offer their gifts of care in many different types of emergency situations.  Many volunteer EMT's go on to become career EMT'S, paramedics or Fire Rescue crews and still take the time to volunteer their expertise and personal time with their local volunteer rescue squads.

Your local volunteer rescue squad needs you.  Even if you have never thought of joining before or have never had any medical experience, consider calling your local rescue squad to learn more about volunteer opportunities in your community.



EMS Irish Wishes

EMS Irish EMT and Paramedic Wishes For St. Patrick's Day. Stay Safe Out There Everyday!

Happy St Patrick's Day To All Of My Irish EMT and Paramedic Friends and to Everyone, because I'm pretty sure everyone has a little Irish Pride and Temper In Them!

Emergency Winter Wishes

To all of my many dedicated firefighter, police and EMS friends still on the road, saving lives and helping others, stay safe my friends – you make a difference especially now. 

Winter Wishes Police, Fire, EMS Stay Safe Out There

Wishing everyone stays safe, stays home if they can so those who have to be out can do their job more safely. I wish your families who will be worried about you, an easy storm with smiles and a cozy winter scene inside as the snow and wind howls outside.

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EMT For Life

EMT For Life says it all. Serving with a volunteer rescue squad or career EMS job means it becomes part of their lives, always studying to learn more, always responding and always being prepared to help others. They are EMT's for your life too.

 

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EMT and Paramedics Saving Lives

EMT's and Paramedics are saving lives.  EMS is about Emergency Medical Services.  EMT and Paramedic calls are big and small.  When the tones go off, you never know what you will arrive on scene to find.  EMT's can be dispatched to a sick person and find someone who really isn't too sick and could have waited for a doctors appointment.

Or they can arrive to find a cardiac arrest.  Always prepared.  Always trained.  On the way home from a non-emergency type of call, they may be dispatched to a trauma, a motor vehicle crash, a HazMat situation, backing up firefighters at a fire.  In a moment of time, the situation they are in can change.  They face hazards.  They are compassionate to patients and family.  From sound asleep to wide awake.  Finding the right address.  Bringing the right jump bags and equipment.  Lifting and moving patients of all sizes.

EMT's and Paramedics are dedicated to saving lives every day.

EMS EMT Paramedic New Year

EMS EMT and Paramedic New Year wishes include responding safe, saving lives, health and wealth for yourselves and your families.  Happy New Year to every EMT and Paramedic, we know that every year, every day, every call brings new challenges.  Stay safe and save some lives because if anyone can, we know it's you.

Merry EMS Christmas

Merry EMS Christmas to EMT and Paramedics both volunteer and career.  Wishing your families, who sacrifice for others because of the time you spend saving lives and training harder, a warm and very Merry Christmas filled with memories, family and love.  Whether you are working, responding or taking the shift off - we wish you a very Happy Holiday Season, a Merry Christmas and a Safe and Happy New Year ahead!

EMT Paramedic Christmas Ornaments

EMT Paramedic Christmas Ornaments pretty much sum up the pride in EMS you and your family feel about your EMT and Paramedic careers, both volunteer and career.  EMS logos featuring the Star of Life, Ambulances and Christmas holidays go perfectly together whether you hang them in your family home, your fire dept and rescue squad, tuck one into your ambulance or give them to your EMS family or friend to show you know how much being an EMT means to so many people.

Here are some of our favorite EMS holiday ornaments, personalize them with names, your favorite saying, your own photo or buy them just the way they are.  Stay safe this holiday season and always.

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