Lights & sirens
Subtitle: the education of a paramedic
By: Kevin Grange
Edition: Berkley trade paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780425275238
Subjects: UCLA-Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program; Medical emergencies; Emergency medicine; Students; Study and teaching; Emergency medical technicians; Ambulance service; Education; Biography
Description: "A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles. Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks--that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the 'Harvard of paramedic schools': UCLA's Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world. Few jobs can match the stress, trauma, and drama that a paramedic calls a typical day at the office, and few educational settings can match the pressure and competitiveness of paramedic school. Blending months of classroom instruction with ER rotations and a grueling field internship with the Los Angeles Fire Department, UCLA's paramedic program is like a mix of boot camp and med school. It would turn out to be the hardest thing Grange had ever done--but also the most transformational and inspiring. An in-depth look at the trials and tragedies that paramedic students experience daily, Lights and Sirens is ultimately about the best part of humanity--people working together to help save a human life"--
Table of contents: title: January: Day One, January: Week One, January: BSI, Scene Safe; title: February: First IVs and Pharmacology; title: February: The Best Way Out is Through; title: March: Struggling to Stay Afloat; title: April: Classroom Finals; title: May: The Eyes and Ears of the ER; title: May: Delevering Babies and Do-Not-Resuscitate Order; title: June: In Limbo; title: July: Field Intership Begins; title: July: Baptism by Fire; title: July: All Eyes on Me; title: August: A Black Cloud; title: August: Trial and Initiation; title: September: Becoming a Street-Smart Paramedic; title: September: Radio Reports; title: Spetember: Graduation.