Assaults in EMS

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A certain crew that I may or may not of been part of had a gun pulled out by the patients son during a cardiac arrest last summer. Always livens up the shift
 
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A certain crew that I may or may not of been part of had a gun pulled out by the patients son during a cardiac arrest last summer. Always livens up the shift
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We had a crew here that were at a cardiac arrest, a family member started swinging an axe at the Ambulance Officers but was quickly disabled by the other family members.
 
Had a drug od cardiac arrest where the family didnt want to believe their little angel was using more dope than charlie sheen. Pops tried to get rough with us and we had to put him down like a sick dog. While I was tangling with pops like a rowdy gator, my partner continued to work the arrest. 5 of droperidol later and pops was drooling on himself like a bed bound CVA pt. After PD arrived, they arrested the father and charged him with felony assault. We transported the pt. The father was racked with grief after the event and eventually apologized. At his court hearing, I testified and he was sentenced to a year in the big house. I also sued him civilly for emotional distress and was awarded 250,000$ in the verdict. To bring the story full circle, the jail where he was incarcerated is in our first due. We responded 4 months later for a stabbing and arrived to find no other than pops shanked in the back. His cellmate split him up the back like he was gutting a fish. Anyway, the father lived and is now doing good.
 
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Had a drug od cardiac arrest where the family didnt want to believe their little angel was using more dope than charlie sheen. Pops tried to get rough with us and we had to put him down like a sick dog. While I was tangling with pops like a rowdy gator, my partner continued to work the arrest. 5 of droperidol later and pops was drooling on himself like a bed bound CVA pt. After PD arrived, they arrested the father and charged him with felony assault. We transported the pt. The father was racked with grief after the event and eventually apologized. At his court hearing, I testified and he was sentenced to a year in the big house. I also sued him civilly for emotional distress and was awarded 250,000$ in the verdict. To bring the story full circle, the jail where he was incarcerated is in our first due. We responded 4 months later for a stabbing and arrived to find no other than pops shanked in the back. His cellmate split him up the back like he was gutting a fish. Anyway, the father lived and is now doing good.
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Cool story bro
 
Yesterday I got "beat up" by an 86 yo dialysis patient. I've lost count of how many times I've transported him without ever having any issue. We have six point harnesses on the jump seat and he latched onto mine like no tomorrow, keeping me from escaping from his torrent of punches.

He didn't hurt me, but it was a good reminder that no matter how often you transport the same person, you have to remain vigilant with the patient. Also, I need to learn some rudimentary Spanish.
 
Had a guy tell sic his Rottwieller (sp?) on me. Guy told me his "dog" dint like girls. Got elbowed in the face by an old guy. Nice bruise out of that one. Had an old "lady" threaten to (poop) on me and my partner. Got pinched so hard under the upper arm, bruised for a 2 weeks. But, the best was a chick that was on a pysch hold, (4 point restraints, cuz she tried to jump out of the moving ambulance), she didn't like me, but would talk to my partner. Transfered her to the pysch ward, while wheeling her thru the doors, of the locked unit, she called my partner over and announced, "would you please take the switchblade out of my back pocket and give it to the police". (The police and the transfering hospital assured me, that she had been searched). The police got a rather stearn talking to. Those are just a few of my "fun" calls. Be careful out there, you never know when something will happen.
 
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Had a drug od cardiac arrest where the family didnt want to believe their little angel was using more dope than charlie sheen. Pops tried to get rough with us and we had to put him down like a sick dog. While I was tangling with pops like a rowdy gator, my partner continued to work the arrest. 5 of droperidol later and pops was drooling on himself like a bed bound CVA pt. After PD arrived, they arrested the father and charged him with felony assault. We transported the pt. The father was racked with grief after the event and eventually apologized. At his court hearing, I testified and he was sentenced to a year in the big house. I also sued him civilly for emotional distress and was awarded 250,000$ in the verdict. To bring the story full circle, the jail where he was incarcerated is in our first due. We responded 4 months later for a stabbing and arrived to find no other than pops shanked in the back. His cellmate split him up the back like he was gutting a fish. Anyway, the father lived and is now doing good.
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EPICMEDIC said:
Had a drug od cardiac arrest where the family didnt want to believe their little angel was using more dope than charlie sheen. Pops tried to get rough with us and we had to put him down like a sick dog. While I was tangling with pops like a rowdy gator, my partner continued to work the arrest. 5 of droperidol later and pops was drooling on himself like a bed bound CVA pt. After PD arrived, they arrested the father and charged him with felony assault. We transported the pt. The father was racked with grief after the event and eventually apologized. At his court hearing, I testified and he was sentenced to a year in the big house. I also sued him civilly for emotional distress and was awarded 250,000$ in the verdict. To bring the story full circle, the jail where he was incarcerated is in our first due. We responded 4 months later for a stabbing and arrived to find no other than pops shanked in the back. His cellmate split him up the back like he was gutting a fish. Anyway, the father lived and is now doing good.
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That's a heck of a tale, Commander McBrag. But it pales in comparison to what happened to me while I was taking part in an EMT-B training exchange program in Papua New Guinea.

Sent into the uncharted rain forest for a three-month wilderness survival stint, I found myself starting into 60 pairs of fiery eyes belonging to none other than the almost inhuman, beast-like pygmy army of Ubambwa. Initially I couldn't tell who was more frightened -- them or their companion marmosets. No matter... even though they had weapons far superior to any I had, I knew I possessed a keener intellect, a new long board and my very own jump kit, complete with BVM, sterile water, 4x4s and two cravats.

Instinctively, I hatched a plan on the spot, and all I needed to make it work was a cold pack, a #2 oropharyngeal airway, a length of oxygen tubing and a root from the Traptim tree. A tinge of worry briefly shot through me when I realized the only thing I was missing was the OPA because I had used it earlier in the day to single-handedly resuscitate a mother Yamtar looking after her newborns.

Luckily, my improvisational abilities are unequaled and I found a suitable substitute by fashioning an OPA from my pulse oximeter by lashing it to a 16 gauge angiocath.

I'll spare you the torrid details, as they're too graphic for even the most hardened among us. Suffice to say that not only did I survive the encounter, the remaining soldiers thought enough of me to offer me the hand of their king's daughter in marriage. In a fortuitous chain of unexplainable events and a fluke genetic mutation, not only was she not a pygmy, she was a statuesque, bronze-skinned goddess whose only desire was to take me as her husband. Shortly after our marriage, her father passed of natural causes. And being the only male in the family, I inherited his vast fortune of money, jewels and land.

As he lay on his deathbed, he implored me, "Please, my son... take everything I have and do with it as you will. My only wish is for you and my daughter to be happy."

"All I need, father," I replied, knowing these words to him would be last he would hear uttered by any earthly being, "Is your daughter's love and a laptop computer with an Internet connection so I can spend my days surfing and replying to posts on the EMTLife.com forum."
 
And that's enough of this one.
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