Lights & sirens : the education of a paramedic / Kevin Grange.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Berkley Books, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 327 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 042527523X (paperback)
- 9780425275238 (paperback)
- Lights and sirens
- Grange, Kevin
- UCLA-Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program -- Students -- Biography
- Ambulance service -- California -- Los Angeles
- Emergency medical technicians -- Education -- California -- Los Angeles
- Emergency medical technicians -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography
- Emergency medicine -- Study and teaching -- California -- Los Angeles
- Medical emergencies -- California -- Los Angeles
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Grange, K. G757 | Available | 33111008016145 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
January: Day One, January: Week One, January: BSI, Scene Safe -- February: The Best Way Out is Through -- March: Struggling to Stay Afloat -- April: Classroom Finals -- May: The Eyes and Ears of the ER -- May: Delivering Babies and Do-Not-Resuscitate Order -- June: In Limbo -- July: Field Internship Begins -- July: Baptism by Fire -- July: All Eyes on Me -- August: A Black Cloud -- August: Trial and Initiation -- September: Becoming a Street Smart Paramedic -- September: Radio Reports -- September: Graduation.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.