The challenges of emergency calls

It amazes me, idiots get stupid and worse then ever thought before, People who go through life doing their own things not knowing how their actions will affect others, I think to myself at the ER desk as I write a few words someone might never read and could be a warning or prophecy. We laugh we , we cry, we laugh more, we lose sleep, People think their choises are theirs and don't affect others, poor nieve folks! Maybe I should become a philosopher, Why is it that I get a spurt of energy and expertise in my times of tiredness. I have been up several hours probably over 15017 hours. I got up around 0800 yesterday, today I was home maybe 1/2 hour before I was called back for an emergency run, because the primary crew was out on a call. I have been here since then it is noon. I did sleep yesterday afternoon a few hours. I can in starting to feel run down, this job is killing me! I ache, I pop in my shoulders, I pop in my knees and ankles, elbows, I shouldn't be this way at such a...

We haven't done much last few nights, first night of the set of shifts, we do nothing, my partner is sick and manages to grab some sleep. He looks very pale. Next night, we do nothing until after midnight......... Around 0111 we get a 911 call for chest pains, we roll hot to the location, arrive on scene load and do a 12-leak ekg, and I make a field diagnosis, A-FIB, it means her heart will be fast, then slow down a bit, then speed up, makes you have chest pain, some shortness of breath and scares you. It feels like it is coming out of your chest then it slows enough it doesn't feel like it is beating. My partner says yup looks that way, what does the monitor printout say, A-Fib, Right Bundle Branch Block with Rapid Ventricular Response. I am good, but I know you can never trust the reports given by the monitors as they are computers and can make mistakes. My partner starts an IV and we roll into the hospital. FALL We get a call from a shelter care location for a male who ...

I haven't wrote a blog in like forever and it is well overdue since the last blog I have incurred alot of stress and alot of strain, including lots of crazy calls. About 2 weeks ago I transported a late 30 year old male who had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, a few weeks later had a heart attack, now I find myself transporting him to an ICU for monitoring for shortness of breath. Little did I know he wouldn't come home. I heard on the news a few days later he had passed away. Sad, cancer is such a bad thing! A few days later we transport a 60ish female from the nursing home for some nausea and vomitting earlier in the day. The complaint is that her urine is also smelling strong. My partner and I agree it is probably a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) we were right on when we get the call to return her that was it! The woman also has something I haven't heard of before which we knew when we took her to the hospital. She has an E-coli infection on the skin. Wierd. Anot...