Paramedic

In recent years, ethical and legal principles have been emphasized in the practice of medical practitioners such as paramedics, nurses and biomedical technicians as it is important to build up a solid foundation to protect human beings in relation to the drastic development in the medical industry. In this essay, the two legal principles that I will be focusing are justice and negligence. Besides that, I will be discussing on two ethical principles which are autonomy and confidentiality. As autonomy

Patients, that have suffered blunt or penetrating trauma that is significant enough to cause spinal injury, have always been treated by Emergency Medical Services with full spinal immobilization. Most textbooks for paramedics and EMTs stress the importance of procuring manual c-spine immobilization, followed by c-collar application, and then placed on a spinal board with the patient’s head secured to the spinal board. This management of trauma patients has long been the industry standard, but studies

watching the emergency vehicles parking in the driveway. He rushed down the stairs. Joshua led the paramedics upstairs. A few minutes later, one of the paramedics came out of the bedroom and said, “Sorry, she passed away hours ago. I’ll make the calls.” Arriving shortly, the police officers went from room to room while waiting for the coroner. “What is your mother’s name? Did she live alone?” The paramedic asked, holding a pad and pen in his hand. “Her name is Linda Gunderman. After Dad died, Mom insisted

Running head: Budgets and Fire Departments How Budget Cuts Effect Fire Departments Leann Rae Edison State College How Budget Cuts Effect Fire Departments Budgets have played a major role in fire departments all over the world. In the past couple of years, fire department budgets have been in the headlines quite frequently. This is especially true in Florida, where there has been much controversy in the proposal and passing of Amendment 1, in January 2008. The passing of

education and training. The addition of a potential CBRN agent to any situation significantly changes the flavor of that situation and therefore the reactions of personnel at the scene. The challenge for emergency medical services (EMS), comprised of paramedics and fire first-responders, is a combination of the following: recognizing that a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) event has occurred; providing resuscitative care in or near a

air lift from the rescue chopper but it was quickly dismissed as it was in need of repairs. I had passed out around this point still in the emergency room and the next thing I knew I had awoken inside of an ambulance with my mother sobbing and a paramedic tending to some machinery. The only thing that I could focus on was the unbearable pain that was in my abdomen and I was informed that I already had too much morphine in my system and I couldn’t have more or else it would have disastrous

On a cold December night in a little red brick house sat a ten year old girl named Robin who was there visiting her Great Grandmother Esther. Robin loved visiting her grandmother, because being at her house was like stepping into a time capsule. The walls were filled with old black and white pictures everywhere you looked and the heavenly aroma of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies filled the air. On this particular night grandma Esther opened up about her nursing days and shared many heartfelt stories

[pic] Ambulance Service of NSW [pic] [pic] Report 2b 11th November 2011 Prepared by Jane Fuller Table of Contents Executive Summary iii 1. Introduction 1 1.1. Purpose of Report 1 1.2. Background 1 1.3. Human Resource Department 1 1.4. Report Methodology 2 1.5. Report Assumptions and Limitations 2 1.6. Report Plan 2 2. Discussion 3 2.1. External Environment 3 2.2. Internal Environment 3 2.3. Detection of Problems 4 2.4. Verification / Rejection of Problems 4 2.5.

It was 2005 and I was a senior at a high school in Florida. My whole life I was raised by my beautiful grandparents in Miami who always hoped for me to attend college and study a rewarding career. All my friends knew their goals and were focused on pursuing their careers. I witnessed them trying to get into the finest universities; and many did get admitted into their dream school. On the other hand, I was uncertain what I wanted to study, although I knew deep down inside I was just as intelligent

The beginning of Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) started in the early 1970’s when “people believed more could be done in the out-of-hospital setting.” When the EMT was first introduced to the people of the United States of America, the curriculum to become an EMT included “400 hours of class, lab, and clinical rotations in various hospital settings followed by a 100-hour field internship.” 1970 had also included the very first National Registry of EMTs (NREMT), which in 1971, “1,520 personnel