num_pages: 249
description: For Emergency Medical Technicians life is the biggest rush of all . . . .A child suffers a seizure. A woman is beaten and abused. A driver is trapped in the twisted wreckage of an automobile accident. When tragedy strikes the Emergency Medical Technicians are always the first to arrive on the scene -- bringing hope comfort and care to those for whom a split second can mean the difference between life and death.Now EMT instructor Pat Ivey takes us into the hearts and minds of one volunteer rescue squad. These are the men and women who put themselves on the line in the face of overwhelming odds who treat -- without reservation or bias -- the victims of shotgun blasts psychotic episodes and deadly diseases. Share in their courage commitment and compassion in this thrilling heartbeat-by-heartbeat account of life on the cutting edge of emergency medicine.
language: English
title: EMT: Rescue!
publisher: Ivy Books