In the spirit of the New Year, New Me and all of those other New Year's resolutions, I present to you my most recent blog post. Early in my EMS career, I had gotten burned out so I took a prolonged break. After that break, on my first day back, my first job back was a cardiac arrest. Originally dispatched as a diabetic emergency, upon our arrival, the female patient literally died in front of us with us standing there doing an assessment. She had suffered a left ventricle failure which even on an operating table would have been a mortal injury. That bothered me for quite a while, and I often wondered why. When I sat down to analyze it, I realized that all of the chips were in her favor that
In the spirit of the New Year, New Me and all of those other New Year's resolutions, I present to you my most recent blog post. Early in my EMS career, I had gotten burned out so I took a prolonged break. After that break, on my first day back, my first job back was a cardiac arrest. Originally dispatched as a diabetic emergency, upon our arrival, the female patient literally died in front of us with us standing there doing an assessment. She had suffered a left ventricle failure which even on an operating table would have been a mortal injury. That bothered me for quite a while, and I often wondered why. When I sat down to analyze it, I realized that all of the chips were in her favor that
