North Shore Health – you’re being dispatched to a 72-year-old female with chest pain, nausea, and vomiting.
North Shore Health – you’re being dispatched to a 17-year-old male, unresponsive, barely breathing.
North Shore Health – you’re being dispatched to a 43-year-old female, unable to move her left side, slurred speech.
North Shore Health – you’re being dispatched to a 2-year-old male, been seizing for the past three minutes.
North Shore Health – you’re being dispatched to a multi-vehicle rollover, unknown injuries at this time.
Preparation for these calls happen well before the pager tones.
Last week, our EMT students started putting their education to work in our hands-on skills lab.
Patient assessments, scenarios (stroke, heart attack, overdose, anaphylaxis, altered mental status, hypoglycemia, sepsis), tourniquet application, and obtaining intraosseus access by drilling into training bones. The team even practiced their hand at drilling into raw eggs for that extra challenge. Not one broken egg in the bunch!
Training for life. Training for our community.
Karla – North Shore Health EMS Director