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Typical call with atypical results: So, I was dispatched to a local nursing home for an 82 y/o female pt who was hypoglycemic, I thought, ok, check glucose, rule out other possibilities, give her some D50 and perk her up - pretty typical call. We get vitals, do a 12-lead, all normal, BG not...

We just dropped off a patient at a hospital and was parked under the awning where ambulances load/unload patients. We came out and sat inside the unit getting ready to go back in service. All of a sudden our unit shut off and mild smoke came from under the hood. We were like "great, we...

Well, my wonderful partner and I were dispatched to a call last night for a possible CVA and we had a nice, quick two-minute response time. When we get on scene, the pt's door is locked and we cannot access her apartment and she is not responding nor answering her door. FD was in route with a...

This happened locally, not to our company, but to Acadian at the next town over....I'm glad my ambulance is always locked.... http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/1292878.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=3728322#Comments_Container

Okay, I was coming in from my shift this morning and I read the most bizarre and craziest patient report on our "Call of the Day" board that occurred last night.: A young male patient, in his 20s, called 911 w/ ABD pain. Turns out, he swallowed eight (8), yes, I said eight, 7" "dildos" on a...

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Well, I've read this forum for quite some time and I've always read how others mention the difficulty of a bad pediatric call. Well, I got the first of my career. We got a call for a cardiac arrest, unknown age. We had a short arrival time, considering the dense fog that cut our visibility down...

Well, I went to work yesterday hoping it would be like any other Sunday...a pretty easy going shift. Boy, was I wrong! We had a finger amputation where a newspaper worker got her finger caught in the machine. Was able to recover the finger, but unfortunately, it was not able to be reattached...

As I was walking in from my shift, I happened to look at our board for the "Call of the Day" and read as I do every day and normally there is only one up there, but for some reason, we had SIX up that day. Turns out, a guy at our company, ran 6 Cardiac Arrests that day, all in a 12-hour shift...