Paramedics: Emergency Response

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.

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

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

Paramedics respond to a high-speed car crash, a woman unconscious underneath a bridge, and a Fentanyl overdose.

Teams respond to a man who has taken a large fall, a raging house fire, and a young man stabbed during an assault.

Paramedics respond to a car crash on a bridge, an elderly man with pneumonia, and a young man stabbed in the back of the neck.

Paramedics respond to a patient pursued by police, a blind boy with seizures, a woman with an abscessed tooth, and a man with a major head trauma.

Teams respond to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle, a man who tore apart his boss’s car, an injured man aided by good Samaritans, and a highway rollover.

Paramedics are called to an opiate overdose, an elderly man with congestive heart failure, an engineer assaulted with bear mace, and a teen stabbing victim.

Teams respond to an overdosing patient pulled from the river, a woman left at the scene of a car crash, a young man with chronic alcoholism, and an injured Police officer.

Paramedics treat a teenager who fell from a 3rd floor balcony, a man struck by a passing truck, a home-care patient having a psychotic episode, and an HIV-positive homeless woman.

Paramedics respond to a 3-wheeled motorcycle rollover, a heart-attack patient, a mom with severe anxiety, and a patient overdosing in a parking lot.

Paramedics are called to a woman bitten on the arm by a home invader, a paraplegic in chronic pain, a fentanyl overdose patient, and an alcoholic who will die if he doesn't stop drinking.

Paramedics treat a man overdosing in front of his scared girlfriend, a young woman possibly having a miscarriage, and a criminal with multiple personalities. A Paramedic is attacked by a man on drugs.

Parmedics respond to an overdose patient not breathing, a man with extreme blood pressure, a victime of a home invader, and a man with end stage liver failure.

Paramedics rush to a single-vehicle rollover, a woman with severe chest pain, a man in a diabetic emergency, and a grad student stabbed by a burglar.

Paramedics treat a cyclist with head injuries, a man with excruciating intestinal pain, an attempted-suicide patient who flees the scene and a man in a drug-induced psychosis.

Paramedics respond to a man kidnapped and stabbed, an intoxicated driver who passes out behind the wheel, a fentanyl overdose in a parking lot and a schizophrenic patient who believes he was poisoned.

A man is beaten by men armed with hammers. A homeless patient has a hidden weapon. A man is assaulted with bear spray.

A man in a bar fight gets a gruesome injury. A young woman goes into severe anaphylactic shock. A man has a seizure in front of a worried wife.

Paramedics respond to a young woman in drug-induced psychosis, a chronic smoker with chest pain, a suicidal father who breaks into his old backyard.