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Lights and Sirens

The Education of a Paramedic

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Lights and Sirens

Written by: Kevin Grange
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Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks - that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age 36, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools": UCLA's Daniel Freeman paramedic program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world.

Few jobs can match the stress, trauma, and drama that a paramedic calls a typical day at the office, and few educational settings can match the pressure and competitiveness of paramedic school. Blending months of classroom instruction with ER rotations and a grueling field internship with the Los Angeles Fire Department, UCLA's paramedic program is like a mix of boot camp and med school. It would turn out to be the hardest thing Grange had ever done, but also the most transformational and inspiring.

An in-depth look at the trials and tragedies that paramedic students experience daily, Lights and Sirens is ultimately about the best part of humanity - people working together to help save a human life.

©2015 Kevin Grange (P)2015 Tantor Medicine & Health Care Industry Professionals & Academics Health Care Medical education

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Fantastic memoir

the author relays the story in an emotionally enriched manner. A truly captivating tale of entrance into a paramedics world

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loved it, i will be listening to this again.

well written, a must read for anyone who wants to be a paramedic or is a paramedic.

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Must read for aspiring EMS providers

This book is essentially a step-by-step manual of what it takes to become a paramedic. If you are considering a career in pre-hospital emergency care this is part memoir, part textbook. I stumbled across this at random and I know that I will be buying this in print so that I can go through it over and over again to learn and also reflect as I continue on my own EMS journey.

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