Tulsa EMS In The Classrooms

Most of us have been there before. A puking, nearly unconscious teenager on our pram. All the predictable problems; airway issues, responsiveness issues, behavioral issues. When kids learn the hard lessons about alcohol and drugs we’re often the ones who get called in to clean up the mess. And, as tiring as the routine gets, we do what we can.

We protect the airway, administer our oxygen, start the IV, monitor the capnography, pay attention to the heart rhythms, the whole kit-n-kaboodle. (You may use another term … that’s just me.) The subtleties of treatment change with level of certification and protocols, but the call runs remarkably the same.

Some medics is Tulsa, OK decided that we run this call far to often and they got the bright idea to see if they could change that dynamic. Today in high school classrooms around Tulsa EMT’s and Paramedics are taking their kits and prams into the classrooms to talk to teenagers about just what it’s really like to be laying on that pram after an alcohol or drug use mishap.

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