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description: Dial 911 and they are the Emergency Medical Technicians first to arrive on the scene and your lifeline to the E.R. During those crucial few minutes your life is in their hands. Now from two veterans of an upstate New York volunteer EMT unit here is a true firsthand account of the daily traumas tragedies and triumphs behind theLights and Siren.An accident victim trapped in the twisted metal of an automobile...the bloodied casualty of a gang war...a boater struck by lightning... a patient whose heart has stopped beating. Lloyd and Herman have seen it all and they tell it the sudden rush of adrenaline the desperate search for a pulse the long hours of training distilled into a split second decision that can determine a patient's fate. It's a world in which no two scenarios are the same in which the only constants are the fight to save lives and the fear of losing them.
language: English
title: Lights and Siren
publisher: Ivy Books