Past Articles Create username. Shining within the Sound of Sirens Cross Training Therapists in Emergency Medicine By Gary Rushworth, BSRT, RRT Flashing lights and wailing sirens announce urgency as an ambulance speeds toward the hospital emergency room.
Someone is in trouble.
A life may hang in the balance after a motor vehicle accident. A person in the throes of a heart attack may clutch a pounding chest. A child with status asthmaticus may gasp for breath, desaturating with each mile. Respiratory distress, chest pain and trauma remain the three leading causes for access to emergency medical care. During the past few years, the number of cardiopulmonary related emergencies has exploded, creating a scheduling nightmare for therapists and supervisors.