Imagine that your pager goes off. You abandon lunch and rush to the rig. Click in your seatbelts, turn on your siren, flip on your lights and go. At this point in your career, maybe the moves are muscle memory, going through the motion without much thought. When was the...
Summer is here and temperatures are rising. With the rise in temperature comes more heat related emergencies. So, let us take the time to do a review. Heat related illness generally occurs from one of two causes: the temperature regulation centers in the brain fail or the patient is...
Being a first responder is an innately stressful job. Day in and day out we are exposed to the full spectrum of human emotion: from assisting in bringing new life into the world, to watching one leave the next call. Add on the stress of intense workloads, risk of personal...
California online Paramedic Licensure service is coming soon! California will soon have its first ever online Paramedic Licensure process. No longer will you have to mail in a paper application and all supporting documentation and then wait weeks for a response. The California EMS Authority will be launching the new...