ambulancequestion
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Hello everyone, I'm not in the medical field so I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but this seemed like the best place to ask.
We had an email circulate around the office recently, a hilarious list of frivolous complants people thought they needed an ambulance for, written by EMTs. That got us talking and long story short, some of my coworkers will call for a broken wrist and others will drive themselves to the hospital with a gushing head wound.
I've always thought that if you're on death's door you should call an ambulance, but you should take a cab if you're able. But what about the gray areas? For instance, if you're alone and you break an ankle badly, then you might not be able to hobble out and find a cab, but it doesn't seem serious enough for an ambulance. What about a broken arm with bones piercing the skin?
What are your thoughts on the minimum requirements for an ambulance? By the way, we did google this but came up guidelines that were too general. Thanks for your time, you'll be educating a whole office of clueless IT people.
We had an email circulate around the office recently, a hilarious list of frivolous complants people thought they needed an ambulance for, written by EMTs. That got us talking and long story short, some of my coworkers will call for a broken wrist and others will drive themselves to the hospital with a gushing head wound.
I've always thought that if you're on death's door you should call an ambulance, but you should take a cab if you're able. But what about the gray areas? For instance, if you're alone and you break an ankle badly, then you might not be able to hobble out and find a cab, but it doesn't seem serious enough for an ambulance. What about a broken arm with bones piercing the skin?
What are your thoughts on the minimum requirements for an ambulance? By the way, we did google this but came up guidelines that were too general. Thanks for your time, you'll be educating a whole office of clueless IT people.