MedicPrincess
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Dispatched for an MVA. Dispatch was "very excited" and therefore pretty hard to understand, but it was obvious it wasn't very pretty. The best we were able to interrpret was there was possibly more than one incident.
On scene, find a single car had crashed through a fence and into some trees on the flightline of the Military Base. Patient was being backboarded by fire upon our arrival. My medic gets out, and before I can get out and around the ambulance she is giving me our "launch the helo/trauma alert" signal. So helo is on the way. In the time it takes me to get through to dispatch and tell them to launch our helicopter, get the doors open and the stretcher out, fire is walking up to our truck carrying a patient with blood everywhere and pressure being applied to his left AC area and his left inner thigh. Patient is CAOx4, laughing and asking how many people he had hurt. My medic asks what he was talking about, he said he took "some stuff" and drank a bunch and figured he'd have crashed before then, and how about we just let him die.
OH...so he's trying to kill himself. Get to work, pressure dressings on the to arterial bleeds, and all the normal ALS trauma alert stuff.
He keeps saying the bleeding arm and leg are not what is going to kill him. After a couple times one of the FF in the back with us asks him what is going to kill him. At which time he said this and grabbed hold of the back of my shirt - I was making him naked - and the front of my partners - she was in the middle of sticking him. He shoved her back and pulled me down. The number of FF and SO that suddenly entered our ambulance made me wonder if he wasn't about to die. So now he gets to be naked and tied to the bed with a couple FF on either side to ensure he is going to be good.
Anyway, we finish our work and the helo has a 2 min ETA. Our trucks Nextel beeps and its my ma. She was on her way to the airport when this guy in a silver car ran her off the road, caused a couple other cars to hit each other, hit another car and kept going. I looked at our patient and asked him where he started driving at. Two towns over. Everyone (including my kids) in ma's car is okay, but she wants to tell me to be careful b/c he's headed towards our district. Thanks ma...call you back.
At that point, I have not felt rage towards someone ever, like I did him. I told my partner, the FF, and the SO in the back what Ma had just told me. The SO in the back says, "Oh yea, he also had a loaded and cocked 9mm sitting on the seat next him in the car."
The guy was being so combative our Shift Commander was on scene and called for orders for Droperidal before putting him in the helo. MD said no, transport by ground to the hospital he was at. SERIOUSLY!! Yep, take him to the ER.
At one point in the ER he wiggled out of the restraints the put on him, grabbed our MD by his head and began fighting with him.
On scene, find a single car had crashed through a fence and into some trees on the flightline of the Military Base. Patient was being backboarded by fire upon our arrival. My medic gets out, and before I can get out and around the ambulance she is giving me our "launch the helo/trauma alert" signal. So helo is on the way. In the time it takes me to get through to dispatch and tell them to launch our helicopter, get the doors open and the stretcher out, fire is walking up to our truck carrying a patient with blood everywhere and pressure being applied to his left AC area and his left inner thigh. Patient is CAOx4, laughing and asking how many people he had hurt. My medic asks what he was talking about, he said he took "some stuff" and drank a bunch and figured he'd have crashed before then, and how about we just let him die.
OH...so he's trying to kill himself. Get to work, pressure dressings on the to arterial bleeds, and all the normal ALS trauma alert stuff.
He keeps saying the bleeding arm and leg are not what is going to kill him. After a couple times one of the FF in the back with us asks him what is going to kill him. At which time he said this and grabbed hold of the back of my shirt - I was making him naked - and the front of my partners - she was in the middle of sticking him. He shoved her back and pulled me down. The number of FF and SO that suddenly entered our ambulance made me wonder if he wasn't about to die. So now he gets to be naked and tied to the bed with a couple FF on either side to ensure he is going to be good.
Anyway, we finish our work and the helo has a 2 min ETA. Our trucks Nextel beeps and its my ma. She was on her way to the airport when this guy in a silver car ran her off the road, caused a couple other cars to hit each other, hit another car and kept going. I looked at our patient and asked him where he started driving at. Two towns over. Everyone (including my kids) in ma's car is okay, but she wants to tell me to be careful b/c he's headed towards our district. Thanks ma...call you back.
At that point, I have not felt rage towards someone ever, like I did him. I told my partner, the FF, and the SO in the back what Ma had just told me. The SO in the back says, "Oh yea, he also had a loaded and cocked 9mm sitting on the seat next him in the car."
The guy was being so combative our Shift Commander was on scene and called for orders for Droperidal before putting him in the helo. MD said no, transport by ground to the hospital he was at. SERIOUSLY!! Yep, take him to the ER.
At one point in the ER he wiggled out of the restraints the put on him, grabbed our MD by his head and began fighting with him.
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