Dumb Calls

[njff/emt]

I'm a little confused as to how this is a dumb call? You may not have gotten the information you needed from dispatch, but a knee fracture certainly qualifies as a medical emergency that would require an ambulance.

I'm not surprised the patient didn't feel any pain - he's a paraplegic, as you said, and might not feel anything at all below the waist - which can make his condition even more perilous. I'm curious as to why you lifted him manually out of the bed instead of using something like a scoop stretcher, though. Wouldn't grabbing him head-toe and lifting him onto the stretcher possibly cause more damage to his knee, even if he couldn't feel it?

We did a head/toe with the sheet, sorry forgot to mention that.

 

[Veneficus]

This sounds more like an issue of an emergency for the dispatcher than an actual emergency.

 

[MrBrown]

Sounds like a simple miscommunication between the hospital and the communication centre.

Your standard of grammar and presentation is extremely poor and you seem to have your knickers in a twist over what looks like a lot of hot air. Makes me wonder about you more than this job.

 

[mycrofft]

Ouch.

Oh well.
Yeah, dispatch boo-boo'ed. It iss their job to get complete info to you and make the proper dispatch. This was seemingly a failure on both counts.

People calling for transport who use the word "code" ( as in "code three" or "code two") need to be gently questioned as to what is going on. Some people think "code three" is a means of shortening your response time regardless of patient acuity; this can be at the behest of their boss (fall-o- phobia and lawsuits on her mind), or due to a wailing pt disturbing others, excitement, etc. I think the macho "code three" etc should go th way of tens-codes. Give me a distance/address and acuity, not a blind license to boogey.

The weight deal...Mr Dispatch needs to talk to his boss about mis-info. I'd be looking for the real pt when I arrived.

And safety of vehicle ops here was a problem. "How would this sound on the witness stand"....

What a great anecdote to share later?