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Lights & sirens, the education of a paramedic, Kevin Grange

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Lights & sirens, the education of a paramedic, Kevin Grange
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Lights & sirens
Oclc number
898433475
Responsibility statement
Kevin Grange
Sub title
the education of a paramedic
Summary
"A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles. Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks--that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the 'Harvard of paramedic schools': UCLA's Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world. Few jobs can match the stress, trauma, and drama that a paramedic calls a typical day at the office, and few educational settings can match the pressure and competitiveness of paramedic school. Blending months of classroom instruction with ER rotations and a grueling field internship with the Los Angeles Fire Department, UCLA's paramedic program is like a mix of boot camp and med school. It would turn out to be the hardest thing Grange had ever done--but also the most transformational and inspiring. An in-depth look at the trials and tragedies that paramedic students experience daily, Lights and Sirens is ultimately about the best part of humanity--people working together to help save a human life"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
January: Day One, January: Week One, January: BSI, Scene Safe -- February: The Best Way Out is Through -- March: Struggling to Stay Afloat -- April: Classroom Finals -- May: The Eyes and Ears of the ER -- May: Delevering Babies and Do-Not-Resuscitate Order -- June: In Limbo -- July: Field Intership Begins -- July: Baptism by Fire -- July: All Eyes on Me -- August: A Black Cloud -- August: Trial and Initiation -- September: Becoming a Street Smart Paramedic -- September: Radio Reports -- Spetember: Graduation
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Lights and sirens

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