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On a recent call, I had a (calm) disagreement with my partner - an early 30s female patient in custody s/p MVC (no trauma center criteria) wanted to refuse care (and law enforcement was OK with this). I was happy to oblige, given the clinical presentation: Alert and oriented (person...

Let me first start this post by saying, when someone is intoxicated how do we know if they are mentally capable of understanding a situation when alcohol consumption is different for every human being? We have a college campus in town (catholic private school) who has a policy on campus that...

I work for a 20 some unit private ambulance company running 911's and some private-line transports returning from ER visits and such. I also work nights in a college city in PA. Dispatched for the possible alcohol poisoning, AOS to find male standing upright by own power, CAOx4 with a GCS of...