A paramedic, also known as an EMT, is a first responder who provides rapid emergency medical treatment.
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Welcome to your first day on the job! Watch this video to see what a day in the life of a Paramedic is like.
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Preparing medical tools is an essential aspect of a paramedic’s job. Paramedics must know where each tool is in their kit and what it does. Every tool has a specific purpose – to save a life! In this activity, you’ll prepare your own paramedic tool kit!
STEP 1: Use an online search engine to research the different types of equipment that paramedics carry with them and use in an emergency.
STEP 2: Choose at least five different tools/equipment and make real models of these tools! Use paper, water bottles, popsicle sticks, etc. Whatever you have available!
STEP 3: Create a guide that has labels and identifies each piece of equipment along with a short description of what each tool does and how to use it. Your guide should be simple enough to read at a glance.
STEP 4: Put your guide to the test!
What from your kit would you use to…
Stop a gunshot wound from bleeding
Help someone having a heart attack
Help a child who hit their head from a bicycle fall
Share a pic of your paramedic emergency kit and how you would use it to help in these 3 scenarios above. Post in the Student Showcase.
Step 5: Now compare your kit to the kits paramedics use in real life! How similar or different were they? What did theirs have that yours didn’t?