EMT: Beyond the Lights and Sirens

A cardiac technician takes you to the front lines of emergency medicine—from tragic car accidents to gunshot wounds—in this "fast-moving" memoir (Booklist).

This book takes the reader to the front lines of medicine, from a serious automobile accident on a dark country road to a woman in cardiac arrest to a young man with near‑fatal gunshot wounds. For these patients and countless others, treatment cannot wait until they are wheeled into a distant emergency room. If lives are to be salvaged,...