Respond Code 3 with The EMS Professional and get tips on proper EMS response, call types and after call feedback.
This code three response to a single vehicle rollover revealed the importance of re-assessment of your patients and keeping your thought process going as a paramedic and good EMS provider.
The VRM responds to a COPD patient with difficulty in breathing who had called 2x in 2 days. The patient refused transport the first time. Was that his best option and did he understand it?
This VRM responds to a difficulty breathing patient. It's important to remember all the many respiratory condition you can encounter on these calls while also keeping the basics like airway management in mind. Especially if that is the only thing you can do for the patient. Watch this episode to see what the VRM found upon arrival and what the patient outcome was.
This VRM covers a response to a patient whose internal defibrillator went off. Watch to find out what was found and points you should be thinking about for these EMS call types.
Getting caught up in a call type can leave you with tunnel vision. This VRM points out how this can happen and discusses a call that could have been just that. Have you had situations like this? How do you keep on track and avoid treating the call type?
The VRM assists another paramedic on a witnessed cardiac arrest call. While there was ROSC, find out what the VRM felt was more important to note about this call.
Take a look at the response to a highway accident. While MOI isnt always the best way to decide treatment, many EMS guidelines require that certain treatment be given based on MOI alone. What did the VRM do and what would you have done? Be sure to leave your comments below.
Check out this paramedic response and follow up to a pediatric allergic reaction call. What are some key points to think about during EMS response? Drugs, signs & symptoms, other causes? Take a ride with the VRM on this one and see what he was thinking and get some tips on what you can bring to mind on calls like this.
Responding to unresponsive patients can lead to finding an overdose upon arrival. See what the VRM found, the treatment and what intentional or accidental causes mean for prehospital providers.
In this VRM see why not all cardiac arrests associated with trauma are from the trauma. Medical emergencies can also cause a potential traumatic event. Watch to see what this call was and what actually happened.