Paramedic / Flight Paramedic — Career Preview

Emergency medicine in intense situations

Paramedics provide advanced emergency medical care including administering medications, performing intubations, and reading cardiac monitors. Flight paramedics do this from helicopters.

A day in the life

You respond to a cardiac arrest, start an IV en route, deliver a baby in a parking lot, and later fly a helicopter medevac to a trauma center. Every call is life or death.

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