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 woman overdosing, a bear mace victim, an elderly cancer patient, and a father having uncontrollable seizures.
Teams respond to a fight between brothers, a COPD patient, an IV drug user with chest pain, and a domestic assault.
Paramedics response to a heart attack, a woman who strikes her head on the sidewalk, and a pair of suicide attempts.