Charge-shock-Change

The two ems workers had been partners for about five months, and had become close friends through it. they had shared many calls together good and bad. That afternoon, they were posted on one of the many random street corners that thier company covered. The two were engaged in conversation, laughing as they usely did when the 911 call was dispatched. She quickly grabebd the map book to find the location of the call as he geared the engine into drive and turned the orange amber lights on. she told him how to get to the call and then threw the map book back onto the ambulance dashboard. The 911 call was for chest pain. a typ of call that she had responded to many times in her first five months as a brand new paramedic.
With in a few minutes the two were approuching the street, they saw the fire engine parked by a dirt lot and the three firemen huddled around a man sitting on a random cemet block. From what she could see as they parked. The man was middle aged and he was slupted over clutching his chest. The fire depot had the patient on thier cardiac moniter. One fireman was starting an iv, one was getting the patients blood pressure while the captian was asking questions to the responsive patient.
The two jumped from thier ambulance and pulled out thier gurney. As they approuched the four men they saw the patient all of a sudden go completely unresponsive and start to fall over. The fire medic caught the patient as they two wheeled their gurney over quickly to load him. She turned to the fire medic and asked him what he got so far as they placed the gurney seat belts on the patient and lifted the gurney. The fire medic informed her that the patient had been complaining of chest pain and that the collapse ca,e with out signs. They quickly loaded the patient and jumped in. She yelled to her emt partner to head code three to their closest hospital. Within seconds the two fire medics and her felt the gurking of the unit and heard the familiar sirens. The fire captian sat in the jump seat above the patient's head and was bagging the patient, who at this point has stopped breathing. The fire medic sat in the bend and began re-establishing his iv.
'he isnt breathimg" the captian yelled.
'What do we have on the moniter." she asked as she read justed its screne. the normal cardiac rythm was replaced with a rapid heart beat. ( ventricular tachycardia) she reached down and felt his rapid pulse. With sweat from the heat of the dat rolling hown her forehead she truned to the fire medic and stated.
"V-tach with pulsess, dude we got to cardiover him." the fire medic took a quick look at the moniter.
"right." he said as he reached over and adjusted the moniter. She quickly pulled out the defib pads and stuck them on the patient's chest.
"All you after you clear us." he told her.
"Okay, clearing, you guys all clear? Here we go." she yelled.
"clear!" came the response of the two firefighters. She reached out and pressed the charge buttom. the sound of the power charging up sounded like a bomb about to expload. It reached its full charge point and started alarming.
"Clear, we all clear?" she yelled again.
"Clear!" they all moved as far away from the gruney as they could in the small ambulance.
She reached a pressed the shock bottun.

cardioversion: is a bolt of electricity that camptures a rapid heart beat and shocks it. Its goal is to stop the rapid beating with electricity and re-start the heart

The patient few up a few inches from the gurney.
patient: went from not breathing, completely unresponsive, rapid heart rate to sitting up and yelling "where am I? where am I?"

The fire medic turned to look at the five month paramedic and said, "I think we just saved his life." the paramedic's mouth went from wide open to a smile of hope. "ya i think we did." the two stared at each other for a second before doing a victory statement through a high five. They felt the ambulance come to a stop in the ER bay. The emt opened the back doors to to stare at his partner.
"Good job." he yelled with a smile. With in a few minutes the patient was in a hopsital bed surrounded by a doctor and many nurses.
The two paramedics talked as they did their paerpwork side by side. They laughed as they leaned on the counter and cheered as they told the story to those around them. This call would be the begining of a close , trustful working relationship between the new medic and the emperinced firefighter. Before he left to two of them walked over to the patient who stated that he did not remember anything that happend and asked who they were. The firefighter paramedic informed him of everything.
"So you two saved my life?"
"Yeah looks liek it."
"Thank you two so much." after hand shakes all around the fire medic turned to her, "See ya on the next one." he said with a wink.
"Of coarse." she said back with a smile. She walked back over to the counter and finished the last of her paperwork. She took a glace back at the middle aged man who now sat comformtably in the bed watching the busy ER. He was alive, only by a shock of electricity that touched His heart.

What do you let touch your heart? who do you let touch your heart? I heard a man once say "That God is the only one who we are supposed to let touch our hearts." see we were all created with a void in our hearts that only God can fullfill. yes God created us to have relationships with other: human contact. But he is the founder of relationship and the only one that can fill that void in our hearts. He is like a cardiac moniter, captureing your every heart beat in His heart, and when he sees your heart beating unsafely fast, sees you on the road to enternal death He desires to reach out and touch you; shock you with electriciy and re-start your heart anew.
If you have never felt God's touch dont wait too late, cause choosing weather you want God to cardovert your heart or not will be choosing between death and eternal life. Let Him restart your heart for Him while you are living and re-start your heart for eternal life with Him, where there is no death.

"My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." - paslm 73:26

I remember leaving that ER and thinking to myself 'I actuely saved that man's life.' I will never forget that call, seeing someone on the brink of death and living after a bolt of elctricity....let God cardovert your heart and change your life forever...may your heart beat to the rythm of His....