The members of Batt 3's Engine 1, 5, and Amb 4 crews should be put up for a reward for a job well done last night. They were dispatched for a 20 Y/O female pt, CPR in progress. Being the highly trained bunch of EMT's and Paramedics that they are, they knew that the typical cardiac arrest protocols were not going to be effective in this case. With the quick thinking of say, a sloth, they bipassed the oxygen, epinepherine, lidocaine, and any other medicine imaginable, and went straight for the ammonia inhalant. Voilat! (spell check wouldn't work). A SAVE!!!!!
I have no doudt that after reading the narrative from this run report, the powers to be are going to be rolling out a new cardiac arrest protocol list. I just hope they get the indications correct, which are as follows: pt must have a pulse (this one never lost hers), must be breathing on her own, and her mother must be the one to perform CPR. The only side effect will be a sore chest (probably from the compressions).
Keep up the good work guys.
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