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After a 32-hour shift in Pittsburgh, I realized EMTs should be napping on the job

  • Written by P. Daniel Patterson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
After a 32-hour shift in Pittsburgh, I realized EMTs should be napping on the jobThe reality of EMS work is that most paramedics and emergency medical technicians work 12-, 24-, and 48-hour shifts.Svitlana Hulko/iStock Collection/Getty Images Plus

At 7 a.m., roughly an hour before the end of my shift as a paramedic in Pittsburgh, my colleague and I were dispatched to a patient who was violently vomiting and not alert. We...

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