The blood is stored in coolers just above freezing temperatures. When paramedics get a call, they can call for whole blood and it can be brought directly to the scene. "To see someone that you touch that they are ice cold — cold to the touch — they are pale, they're ba...
Panic ensued when Prosser was found—911 called, paramedics responded and tried to revive him. Kelsey, trying to help however he could, moved their ambulance directly in front of the Wake Forest basketball offices, just in case they needed to rush Skip to the hospital. It was too late. ...
In addition to a tuning control (VFO), the VHF-FM radio had a set of channel select pushbuttons, much like those in a car radio. I asked a guardsman a few questions about the radio, and he demonstrated the channel preset feature. A panel above the channel pushbuttons was labeled ...
One operator in Florida picked up a call from a man who was in the process of choking. The call-taker walked the man through the process of performing the Heimlich maneuver on himself using the back of a chair, dealing with the situation in an incredibly calm, encouraging manner considering...
(or with only basic first aid training) to drive the ambulance. However, most “ambulance drivers” today are trained EMTs or paramedics. Because of the multiple responsibilities, many EMTs and paramedics take exception to being called “ambulance drivers” because they do so much more. ...
One operator in Florida picked up a call from a man who was in the process of choking. The call-taker walked the man through the process of performing the Heimlich maneuver on himself using the back of a chair, dealing with the situation in an incredibly calm, encouraging manner considering...
Paramedics began pumping patients with as much as 1 to 2 gallons of saline — so much that their blood turned pink. Dr. Mark Yazer, a professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, said intensive care unit patients in the 1990s were often so swollen with saline, they resembled “...
Open Document It was Friday, March 17, and it was a minute before 2:35pm in which we would get out of school. There was so much anticipation for the final bell to sound and start spring break. “Diiinnnnggg,” went the final bell. Everyone bolted into the hallways to get home and...
There’s so much to share and I plan to do that soon, but I wanted to send my mom the teaching I gave on Joseph (in Genesis) at my Bible study and this is the only way my non-tech-savvy self can make it work. So… if you happen to have half an hour and need a little ...
rent when so many New Yorkers can't even work," Che wrote in a statementposted to Instagram. "Obviously, I can't offer much help by myself. But in the spirit and memory of my late grandmother, I'm paying one month's rent for all 160 apartments in the NYCHA building sh...