Recent content by ChristinaM

In the county in which I work we are a divided system that works together we have fire and we have EMS and we co-respond to calls. If the call is deemed a public assist call, like someone just needing help up off the floor, fire initially responds and then calls us if necessary. If the call...

Amen to that, it gets very tedious indeed. We were called to an assisted living facility by a hospice nurse for a patient that had increasing dementia that she wanted evaluated for placement in a skilled nursing facility and he should have been transported by non-emergency stretcher transport...

We had the same call recently.. a child about 18 months old.. woke up at about 0300 crying and wouldn't stop. We examined the child and found absolutely nothing wrong. We told the mother she may have had a nightmare and asked her if she tried to distract the child with a favorite toy, drink or...

We have a frequent flyer/drug seeker in our zone that has been calling with increased frequency irritating all crews on all shifts for the past several months. The last time we transported him to one of the local ERs, the nurse informed the doctor coming around the corner that <John Smith> is...

Hey, Hey... easy with the Florida references! :P

I ran a nasty MVC recently that amazed everyone on scene. A very large part of our zone is rural and there is a stretch of road in our zone that meets with the county line to the south that is particularly bad... lots of MVCs on that road. We got called to a rollover/hit a tree, witnessed...

We have the same type dispatch system here... called EMD certified dispatching... just coming online to us. Our dispatchers also leave it up to us as to how we respond - responding (lights and sirens) or en route (no lights and sirens). They will even say "your discretion" when asked. All of us...

Oh.. I have a good one... I was blessed to have worked in Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida.. primarily a very wealthy retirement community. We got a call one night at about 0200 for a traumatic injury. Upon arrival at the residence, an elderly female in the bed informed us that her...

I work for a county in Florida that is at the top of the game for aggressive/progressive prehospital patient care. Our medical director's philosophy is that he would rather us call 10 trauma alerts that are not true trauma alerts than miss 1 legitimate trauma alert. I think you acted in...