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Greetings all,
This topic has probably been done to death (excuse the pun) but I was wondering if you could share with us the first time you responded to a patient with cardiac arrest.
I've been on active duty for only three months, and the way the system is set up where I live, I've only just recently been authorized to respond to emergencies. So this is definitely an entirely new kind of experience for me.
I think I handled myself quite well during the emergency and was able to do everything the senior EMTs asked of me. But it hasn't been easy to deal with psychologically.
It seems like as EMTs, we really do see an entirely different face of reality. While most people were sound asleep, one family in one part of the world was watching as they lost their son, brother, uncle, and father.
How do you deal with the death we face in this line of work?
This topic has probably been done to death (excuse the pun) but I was wondering if you could share with us the first time you responded to a patient with cardiac arrest.
I've been on active duty for only three months, and the way the system is set up where I live, I've only just recently been authorized to respond to emergencies. So this is definitely an entirely new kind of experience for me.
I think I handled myself quite well during the emergency and was able to do everything the senior EMTs asked of me. But it hasn't been easy to deal with psychologically.
It seems like as EMTs, we really do see an entirely different face of reality. While most people were sound asleep, one family in one part of the world was watching as they lost their son, brother, uncle, and father.
How do you deal with the death we face in this line of work?