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Friday Night Lights: Shift 14 - Wet Whistles and Steak
Here we go again, another Friday night springtime with a cold snap kicking in. As you grab your job shirt from your locker, look over your partner and tell them you’ll meet them in the rig. You hop in the passenger seat and adjust the position of the chair so it’s perfect, or at least as perfect as a beat-up ambulance will get.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 12 - Less Isn’t Always More
It’s another hot Friday night, where the humidity and the ambient temperature are essentially the same at 98 and 98. You’ve concluded that it’s like working in a crockpot, but there’s nothing better than a cold Poké bowl on these hot, humid nights. You go with your throwdown tuna and crunchy rice noodles, and your partner goes with salmon, trying to mix it up for the first time. You very much love the taste of the lime on top of the tuna.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 11 - The Silence that Lurks Beneath
It’s the last Friday of the month, which means nothing but the summer concert series on the lawn. Your partner is excited to hear the Dave Matthew’s cover band play “Two Step.” You both opt to grab a quick bite at Gino’s and head over to the park so you can enjoy some live music. You park outside the main area, hop out of the rig, and head to the lawn with your world-renowned cheesesteak.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 10 - Gravity Always Wins
It’s T minus 37 minutes until the end of the shift. It’s not often that you can catch nine calls in 12 hours, all of which were transports. As you look over to your partner to ask what they’re doing this weekend, the CAD chirps. You read it aloud, “Lift Assist 7878 Hill Road for a 78-year young male who needs help off the floor.” You adjust your seat back up and hit en route. It’s about a three-minute ride over where you pull up to a single-family home with a light on in the top right window.
Friday Night Lights: Shift Holder Over - Watch Your Step!
You’ve known your partner for ten years now and never thought you’d hear the words “AÇAÍ” or “KALE” come out of their mouth. You sit back and glance over at them with a “Who are you and what did you do with Kevin?” look. You maintain that look as you enter the new smoothie/bowl shop. Five minutes later, you two walk out with a protein AÇAÍ bowl and “warrior strawberry smoothie” and hop in the rig.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 6 - Nacho Normal Chest Pressure
Nothing beats starting your overtime shift on a nice, clear Taco Tuesday night with your regular partner on overtime, too. You both play rock paper scissors to decide which of your favorite food trucks you’ll be getting dinner at. Your partner is hell-bent on chicken tacos while you’re craving your favorite grouper tacos at Rick’s with the mango salsa. As you throw down rock and she throws down paper, your CAD chirps.
Got PEEP?
PEEP Use in BVM Management Before you start reading this article, I want you to sit back, relax, and take a deep breath. How refreshing was that? That was a nice 21.3% (ish) atmospheric oxygen breath that your body just enjoyed. Please keep that thought in the back of your mind for a minute. We will revisit that. We will spend a moment on PEEP, not the delicious and iconic Easter marshmallow treats that have become a yearly staple for many, but Peak End Expiratory Pressure.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 4 - Wearing Off and Waking Up
The night has been nonstop but as you arrive to the latest motor vehicle accident, the trooper waves you off signaling you aren’t needed. You give them a thumbs up, hit the in-service button on your computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system and excitedly ask your partner, “want to grab some food?” She enthusiastically smiles and enthusiastically says “hell yes!” Before you can even ask, “what’cha you want?” The CAD beeps dispatching you to a suicide attempt.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 3 - Above the Baseline
You and your partner are savoring the last drops of the best brew from the local coffee shop when the tones drop for a seven-year-old female with shortness of breath. It’s only about two miles away at the urgent care; as you start down the road, you bounce ideas back and forth with your partner. What are some of the things you think could cause this? It’s winter, about four inches of snow remain on the ground from a snowstorm two days ago, and the temperature is 28 degrees Fahrenheit.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 2 - Leaky Hose
It’s a warm Friday evening in July. You’ve just wrapped up a transport and cleared the hospital. As your partner turns out of the hospital parking lot, your ambulance is dispatched to a local distribution warehouse for a worker complaining of shortness of breath. On arrival, you load your stretcher with all your gear and prepare to get some steps in while traversing the expanse of the warehouse.
Friday Night Lights: Shift 1 - Balloons Under Water
It’s a cold Friday night in January. You just finished an uninterrupted meal at the local Chinese restaurant with your partner when you’re dispatched to a house in town for an 88-year-old male with trouble breathing. You pull up to a one-story house, sitting slightly up on a grade. The lights are on and the front door is open. As you enter a musty smell catches you as you lock your eyes on an older male. He’s tri-poding in an old, worn, puffy rocking chair.
Finding Value in Realistic EMS Simulation Trainers
April 14, 2021 at 2 PM EDT / 1 PM CDT / 10 AM PDT / 6 PM GMT Please join us for a timely discussion on the importance of realistic simulation trainers in EMS. During this webcast, we will discuss the value of scenario and simulation training in EMS education and talk about the importance of making scenarios realistic and interactive. Opportunities to provide students exposure to various patient types, conditions and presentations will also be discussed.
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