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Pastor Dean's Blog
 PASTOR DEAN'S BLOG As many of you know my volunteer work with the Fire Department includes responding to medical calls. This is especially true if the call is a serious trauma or cardiac arrest. These are the most intense calls and while we always try to remain calm and focused there is no denying that the adrenalin is pumping because we all know these are literally life and death situations.
A cardiac arrest call requires the most personnel to manage. One person must open and maintain the airway and ventilate the patient (that is breath for them because in cardiac arrest the patient is not breathing). Usually it takes at least one (and sometimes two people, who trade off this very strenuous work) to perform chest compressions. One person is needed to attach the cardiac monitor and keep track of the patient's heart rhyme and administer shock if that is needed. Another person is needed to start an IV and administer drugs. Still another person is needed to record the patient's vital signs and the drugs and shocks administered and their times. Finally someone must actually drive the ambulance to the hospital. In short usually a minimum crew of six is needed to manage a patient and keep them alive. As I mentioned earlier each person is working very intensely in order to maintain the patient on the way to the hospital. Usually after a run like that the responders are exhausted physically, mentally, and emotionally. It is a very demanding and high pressure business to try to keep someone alive. It takes all the attention and energy of six people to do this.
Here is an amazing thought. God does this for all and every one of us all the time---by himself. As Paul reminded the Athenians in the Areopagus, "In him we live, and move, and have our being." (Acts 17:28) It is God who animates and keeps us all alive---billions of human beings. Six of us working feverously can hardy keep one person alive. When we put the work of God in perspective it just seems absolutely amazing.
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