Paramedics — Season 1, Episode 8: Desert Jackpot
Reality • 45 min • 3 seasons, 37 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Las Vegas: A construction worker sufferers a serious head or neck injury after falling off a two-story building; A man is hospitalized with a heatstroke after drinking two much alcohol and passing out in the baking Sun; An incoherent man is found sitting in a parked car near a freeway; A 42-year-old man has been assaulted in a parking lot; An 80-year-old woman with ulcers is complaining of stomach pains; An emotionally disturbed man roaming in a parking lot after terrorizing a day-care center suffers second degree burns from the hot pavement after he is wrestled to the ground after trying to grab one of the paramedics; A construction worker has fallen off a scaffold; A woman stoned on drugs is found on the ground complaining of pains all over her body; A 80-year-old man is possibly suffering a heart attack.
About Paramedics
Paramedics was a medical-based television reality show that ran on TLC from 1999 to 2001 and now runs infrequently on Discovery Health Channel. A spin-off of Trauma: Life in the E.R., Paramedics followed the activities of teams of EMTs and paramedics in a number of large urban centers in the United States. The show had no regular cast; every week featured a different city and a different group of paramedics. Actor Michael McGlone narrated the series. Composer Chuck Hammer scored the series. The excitement as well as the occasional tedium of being a member of a paramedic team is evident, as cases ranging from life-and-death to broken wrists to false calls are all featured. The show differed from Trauma: Life in the E.R. in that it did not show surgeries and hospital discharges. Instead, it focused on the importance of a paramedic's immediate care and social skills in dealing with a variety of people.