Friday night in the city on a dead end street. Light beams out of the ambulance’s open back doors. Inside the EMT spreads a clean white sheet on the black stretcher mattress. He hits the exhaust button on the wall, and then exits from the side doors. My masked patient steps up into the back where […]
Adamis pharmaceuticals is seeking FDA approval for ZIMHI™(naloxone) Injection, a 5 (FIVE) milligram intramuscular (IM) dose of naloxone for use in suspected opioid overdose. https://www.adamispharmaceuticals.com/zimhi-naloxone/ In EMS, we try to titrate naloxone to the smallest possible amount to reduce respiratory depression. We have that luxury because we carry bag valve masks, which enable us to […]
Twenty-seven years ago, in a retaliatory shooting, a man in Hartford’s north end opened fire with an automatic weapon, killing his target. He was sentenced to fifty years in prison. He left at home a baby daughter. *** I get called for the unconscious. I arrive first and climb windy wooden stairs to the third […]
Every morning when I report to work, I check my gear, my heart monitor, my medic bag, and the blood cooler. Our service has been carrying whole blood stored in a paramedic response vehicle for a couple months now, and none too soon. In the midst of two serious epidemics — COVID-19 and the opioid […]
When I woke up Friday morning and checked my phone, there was a notification asking me to join Connecticut’s new COVID-19 contact tracking app. I installed it right away. The app tracks my proximity to other people using the app. If I test positive, a contact tracer will ask if I will share my close […]
On the Sunday morning sidewalk Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned ‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday Makes a body feel alone. “Sunday Morning Coming Down” – Kris Kristofferson Twenty-six people in Connecticut died of overdoses on the four Sundays of this past April. Twenty-one males. Five females. One was aged 15-24, eight were 25-34, […]