
We respond to a heroin overdose. Onboard Alpha 2 is my Paramedic, a probie, and myself. As we are pulling up on scene P.D. reports CPR in progress. We walk in to see a cop doing chest compressions. The patient is purple in color and unresponsive. We tell the cop to stop CPR. I check for a pulse... she has a strong radial pulse at about 100bpm. I throw a BVM to the probie and tell him to start giving breaths, he does, I then hook the O2 bottle to the BVM. While this is going on my Paramedic gets his intubation kit ready. My partner drops the tube perfectly and I spike a bag of saline. We get the line on the first try. The probie is back to bagging our patient. As I secure the line, our second unit arrives and I throw the Medic on that truck the Narcan and tell him to draw it up. He gets the Narcan ready and my Medic pushes it. I held down the patient while the medic extubated her after she started to breath on her own. She wakes up! We transport to the local hospital and the next day she walks out.... Everything just went perfect on that call. It was awesome teamwork with a great outcome... yaa us! JS
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Great story. This is why you guys are my heroes. I love checking out your blog and hearing about the work you do! Thanks
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