calls per shift

[Joe]

Pretty self explanatory. We work 24's and im just trying to see how you guys fair. What's the average number of calls you do? Do u cancel alot of transport everything? Lately we have run avg of 15 per shift with just about no cancels and long er waits.

 

[Medic Tim]

12h shifts.

day shifts are quieter as we have 3 trucks on. Nights are busier as there is only 1 truck. I work on the day/night truck. 2-4 calls per truck during the day and 3-6 at night.

 

[NYMedic828]

8 hours shifts.

Only get called to ALS triaged calls.

2-3 a shift.


BLS can easily do 8 runs in 8 hours depending on how they wanna make their day work for them.

 

[Epi-do]

We average about 5-6 calls in 24 hours. We probably transport 80-85% of all our runs.

 

[Anjel]

7-9 in a twelve hr shift.

Prob 3-4 get transported and the rest I hop on with ALS and assist on the way to the ER.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Average 6-10 in a 12 but I've had days where we run 13-15 in a 12.

16 hr cars usually average 10-12 but sometimes they can end up running the entire shift which is ridiculous.

 

[DesertMedic66]

12 hour shifts we normally get 6-10 transports. I don't count cancels and AMAs as runs.

 

[Handsome Robb]

12 hour shifts we normally get 6-10 transports. I don't count cancels and AMAs as runs.

That's a good point. We run more but get cancelled enroute/on scene or AMAs

 

[Shishkabob]

8-14 transports in a 16hr shift.

7-12 on a 12hr truck.





At my last agency, in a rural county, the trucks averaged 4-8 calls... and a 37% refusal rate

 

[STXmedic]

FT Fire: 12-20 per apparatus in a 24
FT Ems: 15-20 or more in a 24

PT Ems 1: Average is about 6 in a 24

PT Ems 2: Average 6 in a 12

 

[abckidsmom]

We average 5-7 in a 24. Transport is 45 min to 1 hr. In the snowed had Sunday, one call took 4.5 hours.

 

[FourLoko]

10 hour IFT taxi

Average 5-6 calls a day

 

[awestmo]

8-12 calls out of ~20 trucks in 132 square miles in a 12hr shift.

In the summer it's the latter.

Last year we ran 121,000.

 

[DrParasite]

At the FT job today: day BLS truck 1 did 14 calls, 11 transports, truck 2 did 17 calls with 11 transports. ALS 1 did 4 runs with 3 transports, ALS 3 did 9 runs with 3 transports. Typical for BLS is between 12 and 20 jobs, with the summer time being significantly busier.

Worked Thursday in the suburbs..... 12 hour shift became 14 hour shift became 16 hour shift. did one call at noon because the other crew was getting food, other than that, nothing at all (i think they had two calls during the day). typical day is between 4 and 10 calls in 12 hours, with most days being closer to 6.

Overall, I think we did something like 80,000 calls last year.

 

[medicdan]

At the private I work for, when working ALS, we can do 22-26 is not unheard of on a 24. Most are extremely short IFT transports, the others are fairly short 911s <5mi transports, although often some ER wait time. I don't think i've had an ALS 24 with less than 10 shifts before, and generally between 15-20.
We'll see how that pace changes when we move to ePCRs soon...

 

[46Young]

Fire based transporting department. 4.76 calls per medic unit, on average. Some don't turn a wheel, others run 9-10 most days. Calls average one hour to an hour and fifteen minutes.

We work a 56 hour week, 24 on, 24 off, 24 on, 24 off, 24 on, 96 off. Barring a disaster or significant incident, personnel cannot work in excess of 36 hours straight. This includes mandatory holdover, which is infrequent.

 

[Tigger]

5-6 calls in 10 hour day shift is typical. Most are bread and butter IFT, some emergencies thrown in now and then with short transport times usually. 8 hour nights rarely get more than 4 calls.

 

[Outbac1]

Most days 3-4 calls. Often though we do a "City" trip. That can kill 5-6 hrs or more, especially if we have to wait with a pt.

 

[Medic535]

I work at two services, one we run 1-3 calls on average in 24 hours (that's study time for school) the other is is 10-16 a shift. But that's the difference is a remotely rural service and a urban service. The difference is those 1-3 calls tend to be ALS and warranted and the 10-16 calls are 95% bull:censored::censored::censored::censored:, don't even need a ambulance and filled up by medicaid using welfare ho's. :censored::censored::censored::censored: like responding to a headache just to have the patient ask for a Tylenol when she lives across the street from a 24hr gas station....Both services are 24hr shifts

 

[truetiger]

It really depends. We do an average of 35 calls/day with 5 day crews, 4 night, and 2 swing. 12 hour shifts.