Open Airways: Stories from the back of the ambulance
Circle of Life
Bruce Evans
Bruce Evans, EMS Chief for the City of North Las Vegas FD, shares the story of a patient whose sister asked to speak with the responders – several years after the incident.
“It turns out she was so impressed with the care that her sister got that she changed her major from accounting to nursing and had since become a cross-trained flight nurse and paramedic. She had also gone onto become an EMS instructor – all within 5 years time.”
Bruce says the lesson was all about caring for the person, not just the patient – which he had learned from a flight nurse and then passed on, unknowingly, to a new flight nurse.
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.
This series is produced by FISDAP with the support of EMSResponder.com. Listen to the latest features here and look for the series archive at openairways.net.
To share your most meaningful case and the lesson it taught you, call FISDAP Open Airways at 1.651.314.7424
Open Airways: Stories from the back of the ambulance
Snowmobiler vs. Tree
Greg Friese
Greg recalls an incident in rural Wisconsin in which a snowmobiler zoomed up to his ambulance and motioned for him to get on the back in order to reach an injured person. After they took off, Greg realized, “The stench of alcohol on his breath was so strong I almost fell off… and I realized the folly of what I had done in accepting a ride from this fellow.”
Click to here this story by Greg Friese, president of Emergency Preparedness Systems LLC.
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.
This series is produced by FISDAP with the support of EMSResponder.com. Listen to the latest features here and look for the series archive at openairways.net.
To share your most meaningful case and the lesson it taught you, call FISDAP Open Airways at 1.651.314.7424