10 Lies You Learned in EMT Class

Call these lies, mantras, myths or misinformation, these pieces of EMS lore have been perpetuated in classrooms forever. It never hurts to occasionally clean out the closet so we thought we’d take a moment to share old—and even a few new—lies learned in EMT class.
1. Oxygen is the wonder drug
The AHA pretty quickly doused that fire for us. We may still use oxygen in some patients but...