I am new to the ems world been an emt for 10 months and employed for 9 months. I have had 4 cardiac arrest in the 9 months of employment and 1 while going through school.
Now with the company I work with we get our fair share amounts of Codes and the schedual I work is 4, 10 hours days my medic and I just ran our first code this past saturday and the most recent one on this past Monday.
The first one was getting called out for Breathing Difficulties at a residence, we arrive on scene and find a female in her 80's that looks sick, she had SOB low bp of 74/40 and we moved her from the house to the rig in 2 mins, get her to the ambulance and the pt goes unresponsive cpr and acls started immeditly and another unit called in to assist.
Now on monday we get called out to one of our local Nursing Homes for breathing difficulties again. We respond with about a 2 min response time go up the floor and find out the that pt has become unresponsive. immediatly go in to cardiac arrest mode I strap the pads on and the four lead and start compressions and so on.
Now what I wanted to ask everyone if they could give me some advice on how to deal with the after affects of working a code. Of all my 5 codes I have been on none of them have been able to be brought back. Monday was the first time I had been there to be the first to start compressions and still have the feeling of the ribs breaking while doing cpr. Does that feeling always stay with you? and How did everyone react to there first time?
I have never thought about quiting and going onto a stright BLS truck where we do transports and a few emergancy calls. I know that I am new to being an emt and have started off working pt on a als truck and now full time on an als truck. I like being on an als truck to be able to see different calls and to help out different types of illeness. So if anyone could give me some advice would be greatly appreciated.
Outta the 5 codes I have worked 4 of them 1 of them was a pediatric cardiac arrest that was pernouced prior to our arrival.
Thanks
Now with the company I work with we get our fair share amounts of Codes and the schedual I work is 4, 10 hours days my medic and I just ran our first code this past saturday and the most recent one on this past Monday.
The first one was getting called out for Breathing Difficulties at a residence, we arrive on scene and find a female in her 80's that looks sick, she had SOB low bp of 74/40 and we moved her from the house to the rig in 2 mins, get her to the ambulance and the pt goes unresponsive cpr and acls started immeditly and another unit called in to assist.
Now on monday we get called out to one of our local Nursing Homes for breathing difficulties again. We respond with about a 2 min response time go up the floor and find out the that pt has become unresponsive. immediatly go in to cardiac arrest mode I strap the pads on and the four lead and start compressions and so on.
Now what I wanted to ask everyone if they could give me some advice on how to deal with the after affects of working a code. Of all my 5 codes I have been on none of them have been able to be brought back. Monday was the first time I had been there to be the first to start compressions and still have the feeling of the ribs breaking while doing cpr. Does that feeling always stay with you? and How did everyone react to there first time?
I have never thought about quiting and going onto a stright BLS truck where we do transports and a few emergancy calls. I know that I am new to being an emt and have started off working pt on a als truck and now full time on an als truck. I like being on an als truck to be able to see different calls and to help out different types of illeness. So if anyone could give me some advice would be greatly appreciated.
Outta the 5 codes I have worked 4 of them 1 of them was a pediatric cardiac arrest that was pernouced prior to our arrival.
Thanks