Primal Quest Dispatch #7: Race Reflections
By Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P, WEMT, Emergency Preparedness Systems, LLC
EMSResponder.com Contributor
In his last podcast on serving as a medical volunteer at the Primal Quest Adventure Race, Greg Friese reflects on the experience and what he can take from it into EMS at home.
In this series wrap-up, Greg shares an update on the athlete who was rescued and hospitalized after suffering severe heatstroke, and he describes the importance of the combined response by the patient’s fellow and opposing racers, event medical staff, and hospital staff.
Greg also shares highlights about the teams’ accomplishments and his interactions with them, and EMS lessons in the power of compassion, reassurance and humor. Greg wraps up this final report by describing how the experience was a beneficial and uplifting change of pace, and shares suggestions to help other care providers explore ways to apply their skills in unique settings.
This concludes Greg Friese’s podcast series on his experience at Primal Quest. Watch for his related feature, “An EMS Adventure: Providing Medical Care for the Primal Quest Adventure Race,” in the September issue of EMS Magazine.
keep going brothers and sisters!!!