Open Airways: Stories from the back of the ambulance
The Chain of Survival Worked
Tim Sheehan
“One evening while I was teaching advanced cardiovascular life support at the college, we were just ending up class… when one of my old paramedic students came rushing into the room saying, ‘Tim, we need you down here in the gym!’” Click to hear the rest of this story from Tim Sheehan.
Tim is a paramedic instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
Open Airways is a project to capture an oral history for the benefit of the EMS Community. EMS responders share some of the most meaningful cases of their careers, sometimes with humor and always with compassion. We hope that they will help us improve your practice and inspire a new generation of caregivers.
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