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Lights and Sirens

The Education of a Paramedic

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Lights and Sirens

Written by: Kevin Grange
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
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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 Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Professionals & Academics Medicine Health Care Medical Education

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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.

Must read for aspiring EMS providers

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I read the book before listening to it. The narrator's vocal quality is annoying and he mispronounces many words. For most of this book's audience this is inexcusable.

Kevin Granger's book is beautifully written. This audiobook needs a re-do with a different narrator.

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

Fantastic memoir

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This was a well written. very interesting content. particularly enjoyed the experience with the author. definitely can relate

story teller

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

loved it, i will be listening to this again.

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