How Many LEO does it take?

[ckrump]

I work in 2 different areas - one where LE response is great and another where LE practices their ABC's - Ambulance Before Cops! That many LE on scene would make me wonder too what is really going on!:unsure:

 

[daedalus]

MedicPrincess, I enjoyed your post. The responses of others, too, got me thinking. It is good to see our selfs' "reflected through other's mirrors". It offers another point of view of our care, even when it is seemingly mundane.

I see the humor, and of course have heard many medics in my system wake up for a sketchy call and think out loudly what BS its going to be. Usually turns out that they are right, and a few times they are wrong. I remember a patient (c/c of CP) the medic wrote off as BS or a panic attack because nothing showed up on the 12 lead and it was his gut instinct. Brought the pt. to a hospital without cath lab or thrombolytics. Dispatch later calls out to transfer a pt from the same hospital to a STEMI hospital 20 miles out. Turns out to be the same guy. I realise that the medic did the correct thing by taking pt to closest ER but he was still much to quick to judge.

 

[EMTBandit]

I like it when our officers help out. They're usually more than willing to help us out because we got our hands full. The more the better. Unless they get in our way which rarely happens. I don't know if that's what happened to you or not.

 

[MEDIC213]

I've been a magnet for cardiac arrests lately, and I've had officers help me on every one of them. I love having them on scene most of the time. I've also had one that almost let me get my butt whooped because he believes in that old "people are inherently good" adage. I had to get kicked in the "twins" before he did anything about it, and then they wouldn't arrest him because they said he was "impaired" (drunk) and didn't know what he was doing.

 

[Grady_emt]

I've been a magnet for cardiac arrests lately, and I've had officers help me on every one of them. I love having them on scene most of the time. I've also had one that almost let me get my butt whooped because he believes in that old "people are inherently good" adage. I had to get kicked in the "twins" before he did anything about it, and then they wouldn't arrest him because they said he was "impaired" (drunk) and didn't know what he was doing.

Around here that would have gotten drunk in pubic at the least, then if you were feeling like it the associated assault/battery on public safety official charges could be tacked on the citation/arrest ticket

 

[MEDIC213]

He was at home and unresponsive when we got him. Put him in the truck and he becomes very responsive when I start the IV. D-stick was 40. Gave him the Thiamine and D50 hoping that the combativeness is due to the hypoglycemia. It wasn't. He was just an *******. He was threatening all of us, and we were less than half a mile from my house.

 

[Topher38]

"Talk too fast", not "talk to fast"

 

[Outbac1]

I have a question for you. Whats an ECHO or ALPHA response or a code 1,2,3,4??? Here we have two responses. Code 1 is with lights and siren and code 2 is without. Anything with SoB, cardiac. maybe a severe bleed. unconcious etc. or all unknown generete a code 1, (L/S) response from us. How do you respond inbetween a lights and siren response and no lights/siren?:unsure:

 

[ffemt8978]

The ALPHA through ECHO response levels are part of the NIMS which is supposedly supposed to categorize the priority of response based upon the information that the dispatcher is receiving.