Excerpts from wspynews.com:
The following EMS Units were honored at the May 15th Swearing-In Ceremony at the Oswego Fire Department.
Engine-3, Medic-3 – Firefighter/Paramedics Jimm Pechinski, Matt Cox, Jon Vickery, and Lt. Dave Jordan
“In recognition of operations performed in a highly commendable manner during an EMS call resulting in a successful pre-hospital baby delivery”. A successful in-home assisted birth of a healthy baby boy with subsequent treatment and transport of mother & child to Rush Copley Hospital in the morning of February 27, 2017.
Engine-4, Medic-4 – Firefighter/Paramedics Jeff Pokorney, Kyle Sheley, Dave Martinez, and Lt. Dan Gallup
“In recognition of operations performed in a highly commendable manner during an EMS incident resulting in the Rush Copley Medical Center Call of the Year for 2016”. Rush Copley awarded this EMS call with both the Call of the Quarter and subsequently the Call of the Year due to the timely recognition of the severity of the patient’s symptoms and the resulting treatment and transport. The EMS crew initiated care, discovered and recognized an abnormal heart rhythm indicating the patient was an immediate candidate for a CODE STEMI (a STEMI is short for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction), which means the patient was in the midst of a significant life-threatening cardiac event. Scene time at the patient’s location for this event – which included assessing the patient, placing and interpreting the heart monitor, and initiating care & transport – was less than 7 minutes! The thorough and timely recognition of the cardiac event and the subsequent teamwork between the pre-hospital care of the Fire Department crew and the Emergency Room and Hospital staff, allowed the patient to undergo extensive cardiac procedures directly upon arrival at the hospital, thus saving the life of the patient.
Truck-1, Medic-1 – Firefighter/Paramedics Joshua Petersohn, Matt Goodbred, Jon Vickery, and Lt. Joe Johnson
“In recognition of operations performed in a highly commendable manner during an EMS incident resulting in successful cardiac defibrillation”. The crew responded to an EMS call for a patient who fell and was barely breathing. Upon arrival, it was noted that a bystander and then the police department had initiated CPR and an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) had been placed on the patient by the Police Officer with no shock advised. The EMS crew found the patient to be in asystole (without a heartbeat) and immediately initiated protocols and moved the patient to the ambulance for additional care. The patient’s heart rhythm had then converted to one that was shockable, and the crew successfully defibrillated the patient into a sustainable heart rhythm, sedated & intubated the patient to take over the breathing, and successfully transported to the Emergency Department at Rush Copley Medical Center.
thanks Dan
