First Response: Paramedics

E1

FIRST RESPONSE: PARAMEDICS follows select teams of paramedics at Saskatoon’s MD Ambulance as they deal with emergency calls ranging from life-threatening to broken bones to false calls. In the pilot, paramedics respond to several emergency calls detailing the trials and tribulations of the life of a paramedic.

A Long Night

E2

Teams respond to a motor vehicle accident, a domestic assault, a young woman using drugs, and a highway fatality.

A Matter for Code 8

E3

Teams also respond to a heart attack, a car that crashes against road paving equipment, and a street musician that is detoxing.

Dangers of the Job

E4

Paramedics respond to a woman overdosing, a bear mace victim, an elderly cancer patient, and a father having uncontrollable seizures.

Catch Your Breath

E5

Teams respond to a fight between brothers, a COPD patient, an IV drug user with chest pain, and a domestic assault.

Rights of Passage

E6

Paramedics response to a heart attack, a woman who strikes her head on the sidewalk, and a pair of suicide attempts.