Great video, public education is so necessary, it's important to showcase the dedication of all EMS professionals, we are frequently overshadowed by the more public figures but our work is imperative for those who love their job and work hard everyday, thank you for all that you do
The FDNY's EMS Command (which include paramedics and EMTs) does handle over a million calls each year. Although the number various somewhat from year to year, they responded to 1.3 million in 2011. The numbers you wrote are the responses our *firefighters* make, as they, too, sometimes respond to EMS calls. Our website has all this information if you want more info.
just finished EMT class. i will take my NREMT soon. would love to work for FDNY EMS someday. i have to take my Paramedic course down here in Florida. A girl can dream of maybe one day.
Become an EMT maybe at your local college, try to get internship working, then if you like what you do and want to do ALS (advanced life support) go to paramedic school takes about one to two years depending the college/program. Good luck to you!
EMT: basic EMS, nothing invasive... one semester training. Great side kicks to paramedics. Also great for minor calls not requiring any advanced life support. Paramedic (or EMT-P): Have to be an EMT first, then go to school for another 1-2 yrs (including hospital and field clinicals), able to start iv, do EKG 12 leads and interpret, push drugs, as well as many other invasive skills.
usually what we do is that we take turns. you drive one day your partner drives the next day. the driver is in charge of the vehicle and all the equipment in it, the tech is in charge of the patient during transport and paperwork.
Shame paramedic pay isn't up there with the firefighters. Here in the UK once your registered as a paramedic and get to the top of Band 6 (including unsocial hours pay) you earn more than firefighters.
Greetings from germany to the brothers and sisters of FDNY EMS. In June im going on a holiday trip to NYC. Hope to get a closer look on one of your ambulances and to have a little small talk with some of these wimen and guys. All good to you and stay safe. A german paramedic.
Because its a tiered system where you have a large number of BLS units with a smaller number of ALS units and ALS flycars to handle critical calls. This allows the BLS units to handle the "help I've fallen and can't get up calls" while the ALS units handle the strokes, MI's etc... On a cardiac they will send an engine, BLS unit, ALS unit and or ALS fly car; you can do that when you have hundreds of ambulances and fire trucks in a 12 sq mi area. For the rest of us in the real world you 1 truck
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We work in pairs to, heres a question. Is th Guy thats driving in the video, does he always drive and thats it or do they rotate? Here in NZ, i could be driving one minute,then the treating officer on the nxt job
+Nycems Christopher hey are FDNY EMS firefighters as well or is it a separate department? like if you get a job with the ambulance side of things, are you also doing shifts on an engine or not?
What is the process like for a Canadian to move to NY and join FDNY EMS. Not the immigration process, strictly the Canadian EMS -> FDNY EMS. Is there a link that you can provide me with? Thanks!
The ambo company here has switched to the Stryker electric lift stretchers, man are they cool. No pulling a lever and bending over to raise the legs up.
As USUAL here's a PERFECT example of how They treat each other,NO BROTHERHOOD like the Firefighters and POLICE.These guys treat each other like shit then they whine and cry when New Yorkers complain about their sometime lousy patient care.can't expect to be treated with RESPECT if you BACKSTAB Each other day in and day our....
+bklynboombox brotherhood? when a firefighter makes mistakes that costs lives, I doubt they somehow ignore it for "brotherhood" reasons. comon! mistakes needs to be pointed out if overall quality is to improve.
I know what you mean, Im sort of an EMT here in Germany and colleagues mostly think of each other as competition instead of being coworkers, no matter what employer you work for. Kinda sad.
You're an IDIOT Bro!1.NYC has the HIGHEST Pre Hospital EMS Standards most likely in the WORLD!!,,,Don't talk about others,especially if ya can't compete with them,,Especially The men and Women of FDNY/EMS............
ima volunteer in nz for st john ambo amazing to see the difference between them, we dont have drivers we do the driving, and treating, but we onlyget abot 300,000 - 400,000 calls a year in NZ
That first patient/call was total garbage. Transporting an arrest, not to mention the shitty compressions & the total lack of urgency in general. I’d be totally surprised if they got a rosc. West coast does it way better. Almost every rig is staffed with a paramedic (ALS)
Emt here, yes sometimes that’s what you have to do if they get pulse back on scene 99.9999999% of local protocols say to immediatley transport. It sucks, yes but cpr isn’t what’s going to save a patient it’s cardiac drugs, and a highly trained and equipped emergency room to try and fix the cause of the arrest! Stoping cpr to mobilize the patient is perfectly acceptable because what you’re doing is getting that patient to a definitive level of care. I’ve had a call where we had a super narrow stairwell and had to go down 3 flights of stairs and then continued CPR it’s just the way it goes sometimes
@@Medix916 that’s old practice, now you work the code on the floor with as much space as possible and if there’s no pulses after 20-25 minutes you terminate care. That’s the best chance the patient has unless it’s a traumatic arrest then you might be transporting
@@Medix916 yeah load an goes aren’t a thing anymore with medical arrests. Traumatic arrests yes, you need to get them to the hospital. But otherwise some paramedics and some firefighters are just as effective at working a code than an ER room so it’s better to just stay in one spot and work them. CPR, ventilations, early defib, and medications are the patients best chance of surviving medical cardiac arrest
CrazyCessnaPilot EMT mostly do initial trauma care, paramedics do IV and administer drugs as well as more advanced procedures. Paramedics do a two year hospital location
They'll send 2 BLS to an arrest if there is not ALS which happens all the time in Brooklyn lol. At every arrest there will normally be 1 BLS, 1 ALS and 1 ENGINE assigned.
Are you new? Why wouldn't bls go to a arrest call? It's never one Unit that goes either. There needs to be enough units so each can take turns doing CPR. Don't know how you do it in your little town but here we have both als and bls respond to arrests.....because it's a smart thing to do.
FDNY - aprox 500,000 calls a year, 200,000 EMS Calls London Ambulance Service - aprox 1.5 million calls a year, all of them EMS calls Good video but this guy needs to get his facts right.
--- do you ems workers realize your guilty of murder in the future of atleast 1000 plus people who have been forcibly detained by you and the NYPD and those with no medical training , these people have lost jobs, their lives, homes animals ect.. i hope you all are medically equipped and trained enough, as will those be who will work around you people when you are all sent straight to prison.... - a lot of you are criminals a lot of you are not --- its a shame half of you are putting on a badge and gun every morning. Targeting innocent men/women/children on a 24/7 basis... thats not legal is it? or are the FDNY and NYPD still magicians at bypassing all laws , this time you are all a safety/health hazards for everyone ect its only a matter of time until this is accounted for and handled accordingly ---
FDNY and NYPD are NOT magicians... there are laws that protect them from legal suits that may arise as a result of their actions... it's called qualified immunity... www.law.cornell.edu/wex/qualified_immunity
