Peer Support Groups Help Sedgwick County EMS Providers Deal with Psychological Trauma

  SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) - Every nine minutes, Sedgwick County EMS is responding to a call. "We take about 170 calls per day and transport 120 patients," explained, Former Director of Sedgwick Co. EMS Department, Scott Hadley. "That equates to about 63,000 calls a year and 44,000 patients." Hadley told KSN the job can take a toll on first responders, whom become connected with the person on the other end of that 911 call or the person they're rushing into the emergency room, on a stretcher. "Unfortunately as first responders, dispatchers, firefighters, law enforcement officer or paramedic; we don’t get to script the outcomes for patients and sometimes they don’t all turn out the way we want them," explained Hadley.
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