DESTRESS FOR THE EMS: MY CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS AS AN EMT 
Another Critical Incident that truly affected me was when I responded to a 6 year old male, who was hit by a car, as he was riding his bike, on his way to school. As we got on scene, he was still breathing but, he was really messed up. We provided sp...
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DESTRESS FOR THE EMS: FIRST RESPONDER STRESS MANAGEMENT 
I have found that first responders, paramedics, firefighters, emt's, police officers, and even life guards are not often willing to ask for help when they have high levels of stress.
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DESTRESS FOR THE EMS: ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; SYMPTOMS 
For a diagnosis of acute stress disorder, symptoms must persist for a minimum of two days to up to four weeks within a month of the trauma.A person may be d
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DESTRESS FOR THE EMS: DSM-IV-TR CRITERIA FOR PTSD Part I 
In 2000, the American Psychiatric Association revised the PTSD diagnostic criteria in the fourth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). The diagnostic criteria (Criterion A-F) are specified below.
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DESTRESS FOR THE EMS: Acute Stress Disorder & PTSD 
For those of us in the EMS, existence may be easy or it may be hard, depending on where we are in life. Life tends to go in phases, easy sometimes and hard other times. Let us take responsibility for our lives and move towards a life we truly desire ...
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