Thousands and thousands of emergency calls come into the control center at Life EMS in Grand Rapids. The results are then mapped out for the dispatchers and used to predict the future. Ambulances are sent out to the areas of the city based on the frequency of past emergency calls.
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The care we need to provide has to include a good measure of comfort and compassion. Could the board have been padded? Might analgesics be provided? Not all of what we provide as care in the back of the ...
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One of the things I'm most often asked by students and rookie EMTs is, "Kelly, how am I supposed to hear a blood pressure in the back of the rig?"
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Would you believe me if I told you that it's safer to transport an ill or injured child on the back of a motorcycle with no helmet than it is in an ambulance? While that comes from some statistical manipulation, ... Full Column
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