Beriatric Calls

[traumaluv2011]

My squad happens to be one of the few companies in the area with a beriatric unit.

I finally went to a beriatric call yesterday. 83 year old female with seizures. She stopped seizing by time we got there, medics were on scene a half hour before we arrived.

We have a wider than usually manual stryker, but we have a winch system and ramps to load the pt on the ambulance. It takes a crew of 3 or 4 to operate properly, but it surely is much easier than trying to lift the pt.

Has anyone ever done one of these calls?

 

[bigbaldguy]

Did you have to cut any walls?

 

[silver]

Bariatric*


Sorry, I cannot help myself.

 

[Anjel]

I'm sorry I don't know what you are asking.

Are you asking if we have done a BARIATRIC call?

I do BARIATRIC calls every single day.

I just did a BARIATRIC call about 3 hours ago.

It makes me mad that I and my female partner can lift a 300 pound Bariatric patient by ourselves on a normal stretcher, and don't get a lift assist. But a medic crew can get one no questions asked.

We have Bariatric stretchers, but no ramps or anything like that to help us lift. Just all man or female power.

 

[abckidsmom]

Once, we hit an ursine creature on the way to the hospital in the ambulance.

It was a beariatric call.

 

[STXmedic]

Once, we hit an ursine creature on the way to the hospital in the ambulance.

It was a beariatric call.

I actually Lol'd at this

 

[Meursault]

I recently had a patient who choked on a small seeded fruit. It was a berryatric call.

 

[abckidsmom]

I just love homonyms.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Never had one. We have 1 unit but the response time is a min of 1 hr 30mins. Pretty much if they fit in the ambulance then we transport. Anything over 400 starts to "overflow" from the gurney. Our gurneys hold 650lbs max. So any patient under that weight gets a normal unit unless they can't fit in the ambulance.

 

[JPINFV]

It was a beariatric call.

 

[ArcticKat]

I once had a dream that I was running a code, naked

It was a Bareiatric call.

 

[ArcticKat]

I transported a patient once that weighed less than 100 lbs.

It was a barelyatric call.

 

[ArcticKat]

I had to pick up a farmer from his field once...

It was a barleyatric call.

 

[ArcticKat]

I got called to take care of a purple dinosaur.

It was a barneyatric call.

 

[ArcticKat]

I went to a Toronto suburb magic show once because the lady got cut in half..

It was an At-Barrie-Trick call.

 

[abckidsmom]

AAGH! The perfect graphic with a punctuation error!

ETA: I just got it, so sorry for ragging on the punctuation.

I like a comma-to-the-top in random places, usually.

 

[ArcticKat]

When I was little, my cousin made me play with her dolls. When I played with Ken he did...

Barbieatric calls.

 

[Missedcue]

I recently had a patient who choked on a small seeded fruit. It was a berryatric call.

I lol'd so hard I almost puked.

Yeah, I work the bariatric car in my city. I have only ramped one patient and that was just because the patient requested to be ramped. I'm pretty sure I have the same stretcher as you... can lift 850 lbs in the load position and 1600 in the low position? I'm not super macho, but if I have an extra hand to lift our wheels my partner and I can lift over 500Lbs into our rig. It's amazing how many fat people can stand and pivot with the proper encouragement.

 

[tssemt2010]

have a frequent flyer around here, 516 pounds, keep in mind im 6 feet and 140 pounds, my partner is 6'2" and about 170 pounds so neither of us is huge, yep manual stretcher and she is 100% dead weight, no lift assist, just us 2, that is a mofo

 

[JPINFV]

AAGH! The perfect graphic with a punctuation error!

ETA: I just got it, so sorry for ragging on the punctuation.

I like a comma-to-the-top in random places, usually.