Paramedic Sophie

05/08/2026

See you in Orlando!!

05/08/2026

Don’t forget you are a whole person beyond the uniform, beyond the license, beyond the lights and sirens and rotor wash.

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05/07/2026

Tell me a wild EMS story!

05/04/2026

You are more than the uniform.

EMS has a way of becoming everything—your schedule, your identity, your sense of purpose. And while this job is powerful, meaningful, and worth pouring into… it should never be the only thing you have.

The best providers don’t lose themselves in the job.
They build a life around it.

Because when your entire identity lives on the truck, every bad call cuts deeper. Every loss feels personal. Every shift takes a little more.

So this week—step away on purpose.
Do something that has nothing to do with medicine.
Protect the parts of you this job doesn’t get to touch.

You’re a paramedic.
But you’re also a human being first.

🖤

If this hit, share it with someone who needs the reminder.

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05/04/2026

One of my favorite on shift memories with ash! 🚑

05/03/2026

Disenfranchised grief = grief that isn’t acknowledged, validated, or supported.

In EMS, it looks like:
• patients you barely knew but can’t forget
• calls you never got closure on
• moments that stuck… even if no one else noticed

Your brain doesn’t need a long relationship to process loss.
It just needs exposure.

And we get a lot of it.

If we want to talk about burnout and retention, we have to start here.

💬 What’s a call that stuck with you longer than you expected?

05/03/2026

04/30/2026

Murphy’s Law? When it rains it pours? There ain’t no rest for the weary?
Yeah no kidding.

04/30/2026

You’re not faking it till you make it—
you’re showing up with shaking hands, a racing mind, and doing it anyway.

That’s not imposter syndrome.
That’s courage in real time.

Keep going.

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04/29/2026

Can’t wait to meet you all at the EMS event of the year in Orlando, Florida!!

04/29/2026

Let’s talk about it!

So, here’s the reality:
From first contact to antibiotics = often 60–120+ minutes

Open fractures → infection risk starts immediately
Sepsis → every hour delay increases mortality
💊 Antibiotics = time-sensitive therapy

Not for everyone.
But for the right patient… earlier matters.

And this isn’t fringe.
ACS COT • OTA • ACEP • NAEMSP • NAEMT
Surviving Sepsis • SCCM • ESICM

🚑 We don’t save life-saving care for the worst-case environments
👉 We give it when it’s indicated

SUPPORTING EVIDENCE:
* Surviving Sepsis Campaign (2021)
* Liu et al., 2017 (NEJM)
* Kumar et al., 2006 (Critical Care Medicine)
* Levy et al., 2018 (Sepsis Bundle Update)
* ACS COT / OTA / ACEP / NAEMSP / NAEMT (2024 Position Statement)
* Lack et al., 2015 (Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma)
* Hauser et al., 2006 (Surgical Infection Society)
* Gosselin et al., 2004 (Cochrane Review)
* Dellinger et al., 1988 (Archives of Surgery)
* Seymour et al., 2017 (NEJM)