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I just have to share this with everyone, I've had my fair share of trauma, MVCs, stabbings, GSWs, etc... But last night, toned out at 0'dark thirty, from a dead sleep, we were running to the rig, to go look for our patient. Actually our patient hadn't been found yet, but the report was a male, possibly hit by a train. When we arrived on scene, there were 3 engines, apx. 10 cops, and an ALS unit onscene already, and no one had seen the patient, as far as we could tell. Keep in mind this was a freight train, multi-engine, so everyone was looking the full length of the train. The pt was located by ALS, and the cops, we were second in. Pt had massive open head trauma from the center of his eyebrows past the top of his forehead, pt's right humerus was broken (100% displacement), unk. stability of neck/back, unstable thoracic, poss. unstable pelvis, and needless to say, not conscious. Tx was tubed (ETT), trauma lines, BB/CC, rapid txpt. But the most unusual thing was as my partner and I confered post call, was looking into the open head trauma, w/grey matter. I don't know if he "made it" or not. It was also interesting to have to lift our package over the train and hike him out to the rig past the tracks. By far the most interesting call I've had to date. BTW, call range for yesterday incl. 45 day old w/distended ABD/vomit/diarrhea/no temp elevation, F. crackhead with anxiety/L. Arm Numbness, 35 yo F with chest px/pressure/hypotension/morbid obese/syncope/sig. cardiac hx w/last MI/arrest this year, 80ish F vomit/syncope/likely vagal, 15 yo F/HA, 40ish M w/ruptured spleen, and some facility runs.
Not a bad day for 9/11
Not a bad day for 9/11