The Officer's Role in EMS

摘要

As truck 2 drove to the hospital to pick up its personnel who rode with Medic 2 to assist with patient care, Captain Jones could not help but think how oddly the patient had reacted to the care provided. In his 17 years of experience, he could not ever remember defibrillating a patient more than 10 times. Even the antiarrhythmic medications they administered had not helped. The patient stayed in ventricular tachycardia the whole time, initially with a pulse; but they lost that after the third shock. Hopefully, Jones thought, the patient would start responding to treatment on the way to the hospital. As soon as Jones walked through the emergency room doors, he knew something was wrong. This place is never this quiet, he thought. The staff avoided eye contact with him. What was going on? Then he found his personnel. Firefighter Cruz was pale and looked as if he was about to vomit. "We shocked a paced rhythm," he blurted out.