“The pre-hospital practitioner has the first and perhaps only opportunity to break the pain cascade.”

Thanks for all your responses to my post on Guns and EMS. A couple clarifications and further thoughts.

How committed to safety are you?

This looks like an awesome movie/book. Paramedico: Around the World By Ambulance. Paramedico Benjamin Gilmour Coming Soon Check it out!

Now I have been working in the city for nearing twenty years. Still sometimes there are streets I don’t know. Sometimes, I have to pull over and look at the map or else ask for a cross street on the radio.

An emergency doctor friend of mine has a great lecture called “It Depends…” He says that for many EMS patient care questions he is asked, the answer is “It depends…:” But there are other questions, he points out, where it does not depend.

Christian Schmeck passed away a few days ago at 59. I saw his obituary posted in the EMS room at a local hospital. I suspect most of the newer EMTs who saw it didn’t know who he was.

Our BLS crews didn’t have defibrillators nor did the police department who were the first responders.