EMS shows or movies

[DFIB]

Skid Marks

That is a movie?

[nancybell]

Bringing Out The Dead is awesome. As far as tv shows Rescue Me

[scubanurse]

I was a big fan of Third Watch when I was younger... I also enjoyed Rescue Me quite a bit.

[Richard B the EMT]

"Emergency!", which aired in the early 1970s, is a reason many became EMTs, Paramedics, and Fire Fighters back then, as "Adam 12" led numerous people to become Law Enforcement Officers, in the same era.

Me? I give recommendations as what EMS/FD related shows NOT to watch, most of which are off the air, anyway.

"240 Robert": Followed the doings of an L A area Sheriffs Rescue group, with the nice touch of having the helo pilot being a woman, a rarity in those mid 1970s days. First episode, they use a winch on the front of their Jeep to pull the door off a wrecked car, grab the woman out, throw her down onto a long spine board, THEN start immobilization. They also slipped a stethoscope down the generously endowed woman's shirt, in a fashion that seemed to me more copping a feel than medical necessity.

"Trauma Center": As strongman Lou Ferrigno was one of the Paramedics, they never needed a "Jaws Of Life", as he'd just rip the car apart with his bare hands.

"Rescue 77": In a tunnel partially full of water, a Fire Fighter/Paramedic defibrillates a patient by doing a handstand on top of the patient, with the paddles as he fires the shock.

"Trauma": Start with a Paramedic put back to work on a Medivac helicopter, on the one year anniversary of him being the only survivor of another Medivac helo crash. Make him a womanizer, but the only woman he can't entice is the lady pilot he's now assigned with. He also calls On Line Medical Control to advise them he's already done the procedure he was supposed to get authorization for, and arguing constantly with the OLMC doctor. This Paramedic and pilot also land their helo on rooftops and streets, with no security against someone walking into the blades, or leaving the aircraft unsecured against being stolen (not only stolen, but by a double leg amputee without prosthetics!).

We won't get into stable calls that, instead of going by the 3 land ambulances, were transported by the helicopter, and the fact that San Francisco, the city where the show takes place, doesn't even have helicopters in use by the Fire Department.