"EMS is not about the
thanks afterwards.
It's about doing everything you can
to help a complete stranger in their
time of need.
If we don't do it, who else will?"
~ Jeff Little, EMT-B
Cheyenne County Ambulance
Accident in Colorado Springs
This video depicts
the teamwork and patient care needed to be a successful
Emergency Medical
Technician. The scene shows career firefighters and
Emergency Medical Technicians (Basic & Paramedic)
providing initial care and transport to a patient
involved in a motor vehicle crash. The second scene
in the video
shows another important aspect of the emergency medical
system as a young man is transferred from one facility
to another for definitive care. These scenes are
made possible by personnel from American Medical
Response,
Stratmoor Hills Fire Protection District, Ute Pass
Regional Ambulance District, St Francis Medical Center,
and Pikes Peak Community College.
Accident in the Country
This video is meant to show
how many volunteers may respond to provide care
in an emergency situation. Rural ambulance services
will often have to provide initial care and transport
for a significant time and distance before the
patient is delivered to definitive care at a trauma
facility. In this scene, the motorcycle rider has
sustained significant injuries and the responding
ambulance has requested transport by an air medical
team. This scene is made possible by personnel
from Limon Ambulance Service, Memorial Star Flight,
American Medical Response, and Pikes Peak Community
College.
Watch this video to listen
to professional and career opportunity interviews by
those who currently work in the field.
Watch this video to listen
to those who are currently involved in the volunteer
aspect of EMS.
Watch the video with the remaining
interviews
of those who are currently involved
in the
volunteer
aspect of EMS.
Please bear with us as the audio is a bit off on
this
video. We are working to get it corrected.
If you would like to receive
your own, full length, copy of the "So, You Want to be an EMT!" DVD,
please contact
Kim Schallenberger - Plains to Peaks RETAC at kschally@plainstopeaks.org or
719-344-5584.
This website was made possible
by a grant from the Colorado Rural Health Center