This blog is dedicated to everything related to emergency ambulances and the professionals and experts that save thousands of lives each year. Ambulance services (ground or air) are used by those in need of emergency care . This could be planned ahead or required at a moment's notice. Whatever the cause, ambulance services are prepared to take care of your needs.

Why is Healthcare not Free in the US?

The Professionals that work in the US Healthcare Industry 

 

There are many professionals that work in the Healthcare industry. Nurses are assistants to doctors, their duties include giving medications, managing intravenous lines, monitoring patients to make sure they are okay, maintaining records and keeping the doctor updated on the patient's condition. They are also in charge of the various aides, just as a head nurse or doctor is in charge of them. Nurses are the comforters and the caretakers, though they are one of many professionals in the US healthcare industry. Doctors are the ones who do all the decision making and are the ones that are relied on to diagnose, treat, and cure various illnesses and diseases. 

There are many different types of doctors and they perform many different functions. For example, there are surgeons who perform surgeries, or operations on the body which require cutting open and removal of various tumors or other malformed parts to make the person healthier. There are heart surgeons, brain surgeons and pediatric surgeons. There are a variety of surgeons that operate on different parts of the body. The doctors are integral to the healthcare field, and typically make the most money. However, to become a doctor, it can take many many years. First they have to go to regular college, then medical school, then they typically do an internship before they are considered doctors in their own right. The home aides and other aides are the ones who provide the basic health services, the take blood pressure, they help with therapy, and they clean bed pans and change the sheets. 

There are also various techs that work in the healthcare industry. An x-ray tech is someone who gains licensing and is certified to use the x-ray machine. There are also EEG Techs, Polysomnographic Technicians, Psychiatric Technicians, and surgical techs. The healthcare industry is a good industry to get into especially nowadays. The baby boomers are all retiring and are at the age where they need more and more healthcare. Not only that, but there is a shortage of various healthcare workers and so if you wanted to get a job or start a career in the healthcare industry , you won’t have much competition. Also, the profits and the margin of profit for the healthcare industry is high and stayed strong during the recession and there will always be those that need healthcare so these jobs have great job security. 

 

There are few things that can scare you more than being in the middle of an emergency medical situation that requires fast action. The last thing you want to do when you are in such a situation is panic and the way to avoid panic is to be prepared and have a plan. While its impossible to plan for every type of situation, some basic knowledge and information can go a long way in reacting to these scary scenarios.

When you are faced with an emergency, if at all possible, you should call 911 or contact the people that are best able to handle such a situation. It takes time for emergency support to be dispatched and to arrive, so the sooner you make that call, the sooner they will be there to assist. After you've contacted the appropriate emergency medical staff, recognize what you are capable of doing without making the situation worse. An example of this would be someone who was in a car crash and their vehicle is leaking gasoline onto the ground with a small fire some where on or around the vehicle. The obvious risk is that the gasoline could ignite making the situation much worse. If possible, the best thing you can do is to either put the fire out or better yet, get the victim further away from the risk.

Staying calm is extremely important and will allow you to think clearly, so you can make potentially life saving decisions. While you may be scared, you may find yourself in a situation that if you take a moment to think and focus, it may become clear what you can best do to help. For example, if someone has been electrocuted by a hair dryer that has fallen into the water, unplugging the hair dryer from the outlet would be critical to preventing further harm, if at all possible.

Staying clam, thinking clearly, contacting the appropriate people to help and recognizing steps you can safely take to reduce risk to the person or persons involved in the medical emergency are great ways to initially handle an emergency medical situation.

How to Handle a Medical Emergency

One of the most important things that you need to do when facing any kind of emergency is not to panic. When you panic, mistakes occur and you cannot afford to make any mistakes in a medical emergency. So learning to calm oneself is important. If you panic, you could also end up hyperventilating and passing out and if the medical emergency is involving others, then you will not be able to help them.  One really good way of avoiding the panic is to avoid the uncertainty that comes with an emergency. The way you do this is with a plan that you have prepared ahead of time and with practice runs. This may seem like overkill, but there is an old saying, "you are never too prepared". 

When it comes to a medical emergency, you need to know that you are not a medical worker. If you are, then you should use your training, but if you are not, then you need to get your friend or whoever is injured medical help as soon as possible. So make sure if your friend , for example , is injured, then you need to be able to get to a phone, or better yet, use your cell phone to call someone. You should talk to the person to keep them from going into shock and keeping them talking is what dispatchers are trained to do. The goal is to keep the victim talking because it focuses them on something else other than their injury. This avoids letting the person go into shock.

When you call the dispatcher, make sure to help them with the location and stay loud and clear on the phone. You also want to make sure that your friend is comfortable, but if they have some sort of neck injury, you should not move them. Make sure the ambulance gets to you, if there's anyone else, have them stand to flag them down. Then go with them to the hospital and if you cannot ride with the person, then follow the ambulance, but make sure to obey all the traffic laws, just because the ambulance can run a red light does not mean you can. In a nut shell, this is how you should ideally react in an emergency.