It was a chilly day on March 6, 2007. Me and my family were on 495 going to the Holy Cross Hospital with a slight delay of traffic. For some reason, I kept fiddling with my fingers, I was really nervous to see him. We took the exit 31A and we all shifted to the left since it was a sharp turn to the right. My big sister, Maisie, was on my shoulder and we shifted her head fell on my lap. She woke up and asked where we were. “We are almost there Maisie” my Dad said. We stopped at the traffic light and I fiddled with my fingers some more. “Stop fiddling with your fingers!” Maisie whispered to me. In my head, I say “I can’t, he is the first boy of the family, the first! Besides me!” I stopped fiddling and looked at the huge structure in front of me, The Holy Cross Hospital.…
The Southampton Sling (Also known as the Yeldrin Sling) was designed by the then Southampton Ambulance Service (Now part of Hampshire Ambulance NHS Trust) during the 1960’s, Its design and purpose was to be able to rescue casualties from difficult situations within the dockyard (mainly cargo ships).…
''Keep pressure on it, stop the bleeding.'' She instructed before turning to Joe. ''Make sure he stays awake, don’t want to risk it until we know the extent of his head injury and how much the energy outburst affected him.''…
Fourteen years after Johnny’s accident, he was playing on a swing set when he suffered a seizure. He fell of the swing, hitting his head. The additional damaged caused him to have a massive stroke. Two days later, he died as a result of the injuries. His funeral was attended by Dixie, the Rampart doctors, the old Station 51 Crew, their family members, many of the friends he had made in NAMI groups, as well as some old friends and victims who had remembered him from previous years.…
Mr. Collins life. But he’s okay.” They all jump into one of the Helicopters and are surprised to…
“Yes, ma’am, I’m alerting the EMTs and an ambulance will be on the way. Please go out front and wait, so the paramedics can find the address quickly.”…
he is going take care of himself. “I’ll be all right.” I comforted my mother. “I’ll get out of the…
I hear a sharp, long beep. He’s flatlining. I jump on top of him and they rush us to the OR. Nobody knows about us so I can operate on him. Thank…
“You’re going to be okay,” the husky-voiced officer says to Father. Blood soaks the top half of Father’s shirt. One of the paramedics with a red chinstrap-curtain…
Jessica swings the ambulance door wide open and invites us along for an exciting ride….…
An emergency medical technician, also known as an EMT, is a job that requires you to have postsecondary education that include an Associate's degree. Within the postsecondary education, you must take and pass an approved EMT course that is about 120 to 150 hours long. After completing this course, you are required to take and pass the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians to obtain a license to be an EMT. After receiving your license for EMT, you must start your training hours. In the United States, there are four different levels of training. The four levels of training are Emergency Response Technician, EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate and EMT-Paramedic. Each level requires a different amount of training hours. The minimum hours of training varies from 40 hours for an Emergency Response Technician, 120 hours for an EMT-Basic, 320 hours plus an addition of 40 hours for an EMT-Basic for an EMT-Intermediate and 1000 to 1200 hours of training for an EMT-Paramedic.…
In the beginning of summer Joe went to a fair. Him and his friends were having fun up until they got hungry. Joe buys some fries with a cheese burger. That same night when joe got home he through up. He didn't feel well. The next day he goes to the hospital thinking he has food poisoning. The doctors check him and run test on him and take samples from his blood. They find out Joe had caught a virus that they had never seen before.…
As we age, we forget (parallelism). We forget the joys of being a child. We forget (repetition) how to play, how to laugh (parallelism). We tend to become so fixed on growing up that we forget many of things that we found wondrous as children as they have faded away like the night (simile) as the sun of time rises and illuminates the harsh reality of life. I have found however, one thing from my childhood seems to stick with me even as I have grown up and that is bandaids. This is not because they are something that can easily acquired but instead because of what they represent.…
Wehling rushed inside and grabbed the paramedics so they can help Ms. Wehling. The paramedics got her on top of the bed and pushed her inside, into a room. It was 2:30 pm and Ms. Wehling was crying of happiness because her triplets were finally born. But then suddenly the doctor walks in with terrible news. He tells Mr.Wehling “ Come here,sir I need to talk to you” so then the doctor takes him in a corner. And asks him “ do you already have in mind who’s going to be giving up their lives for your kids”? he replies back in a trembling voice “What what what are you talking about doc” doctor says “ well you see, in order for your babies to stay alive,there has to be three family members or anyone that you know that is going to give up their lives for your three beautiful kids.” “well let me talk to my wife” says Mr.…
Two men went to the doctor’s office one afternoon for their annual physical. The doctor examined them one at a time, accordingly she concluded that the first man needed open heart surgery immediately for a blood clot, while the second man’s health was in perfect condition. The doctor took a moment to speak with each of the men separately. When she informed the first man that he needed to go the operating room for open heart surgery, he did not question it much because he experienced heart pains recently. Before the man was escorted to his operating room, the doctor informed the second man that he too needed open heart surgery. He was startled! He thought he was perfectly fine. So the doctor took a moment to explain, “The man before you also came in for a physical, and he will require open heart surgery. That means you should have the surgery as well.” Just…