“Sometimes you have to improvise.”
That’s what EMT Michael Rothschild said about his decision to use a blanket to drag a patient with the beginning signs of a heart attack to a nearby ambulance.
Crews were busy responding to a 30-car pileup, and Rothschild noticed a 58-year-old man in the rear seat of one of the vehicles was having symptoms of cardiac arrest.
“I had no equipment and the only thing I could think of was to make a sled and drag him over the ice to the ambulance,” Rothschild said. “I asked people in their cars if anyone had a blanket.”
With the help of bystanders, he dragged the man down an icy Route 95 to an ambulance. He was then transported to a nearby hospital.
For his quick thinking and resourcefulness, we recognize Rothschild as our EMS1 Hero of the Week