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How to Become a Paramedic in the Army

Paramedic Training Spot

These prerequisites include maintaining a valid EMT-B certificate or higher, successfully completing a CAAHEP-accredited education program within the past 2 years, maintaining valid CPR-BLS credentials or their equivalent, and successfully completing the cognitive and psychomotor examination portions of the NREMT-P curriculum.

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The Colorado Verdict

Peter Canning

One of the reasons I declined was because I wrote a blog about being a paramedic that included descriptions of calls where things didn’t go as they do on TV (or as the public might expect). They did CPR for a bit, and then loaded her onto a stretcher. I declined. I imagined being cross-examined by an attorney. “So Patient drop.)

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Trauma

My Paramedic Blog

I can feel the hunger for paramedicine again, the drive to learn, to push myself towards the goals I set back in 2009. I pounded on his chest, performing CPR. I found I lost the raving passion I once felt for paramedicine, I found myself pushing it away. Then the spark disappeared, his eyes dilated and turned dull.

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Ignorance is Bliss?

My Paramedic Blog

Doctor: “Start CPR. I could feel the atmosphere in the room get heavier and heavier as we waited… And waited… And waited… Is this really supposed to take THIS long for the heart to restart?? The nurse looked at me, and we all looked at the doctor, the doctor looked right back. Don’t die on me!