Clinicals - EMT

Our EMT class started that Monday. It is 5 days a week from 8:30-5:30pm - nothing short of exhausting.







Our clinicals were the first weekend that we had in CB (the 10th and the 11th) so that meant a return to the front range. We took cottonwood pass up and over from Crested Butte to Buena Vista - it was gorgeous. As the pics show...

The clinicals were in Colorado Springs in the ER for 10 hours and on an ambulance for 12 hours. They were an incredible experience to say the least.

My clinicals weren't nearly as exciting as Liz's - which in some ways is a good thing. She had a severe trauma with a 25 year old girl that had been ejected from a car. She bled out and died. Liz also had a stab wound to the head come in during her shift... I had an incredibly sad trauma case come in during mine: a 6 year old girl who had been flown in on flight for life - her mom and two of her sisters had been killed in the head-on rollover accident. She apparently had been hanging by her seatbelt next to her dead family for about 30 minutes till the ambulance finally arrived.... as they put her on the exam table she was handed a teddy bear - which she promptly hugged tight against her tiny bloody chest... yeah - it yanked on the heart strings for sure. I also had a lady with a severe abdominal blockage... most likely caused by the popcorn that she had eaten every day for the past week despite her Dr's strict orders not to. She was extremely aggitated and passed out (I caught her and put her back on her bed) - it finally got to a point where she was screaming that God was there and that her mom was standing over her (her mom had died years ago) - she got upgraded to critical (the docs were saying that it's common for a patient to die once they start saying these things.... weird.

It's finally our first weekend to relax and hang out - so I'm off to do that.