Firehouse

Rapid Trauma Assessment and Prioritizing Fractures

Motivation: Upon arrival on the scene, EMT-B's sometimes mistake dramatic fractures for life threatening injuries. The intent of this drill is to remind rescuers that extremity trauma rarely causes a ...
Firehouse

EMS: Our Battle with Trauma Assessment

Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...
cnycentral

Amid deadly crash, local EMT explains trauma of first responders

SULLIVAN, N.Y. — A 9-year-old girl is dead, and her mother, Jordan King, is injured after a car crashWednesday morning on Route 31 in the Town of Sullivan. MORE: Head-on collision in the Town of ...
New York Post

EMT FAMILY TRAUMA – MEDICS’ KIDS MOST SHAKEN AFTER 9/11

Children in emergency medical technicians’ families were the most shell-shocked following the Sept. 11 attacks, a new study has found. Nearly one in five showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress ...
Business Insider

Inside the life of a volunteer EMT first responder in NYC, who decontaminates himself after every shift and has to pay for his own equipment: 'I still see people who won't take ...

Atma Degeyndt lives in the East Village and has been a volunteer emergency medical technician (EMT)/first responder in New York City for four years. He's been on the front lines of NYC hospitals since ...