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My first call was my best freinds dad he had a massive MI. My first call shift, my first call. I will never forget that one.
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i bet you will never forget. did his dad make it?My first call was my best freinds dad he had a massive MI. My first call shift, my first call. I will never forget that one.
My first ever call was an MVC. No damage to either car and the woman in the passenger seat was the biggest prima donna I've ever seen! Her neck hurt oh so bad!
I'm envious (if ya wanna call it that) of all y'all. I've been a Basic for about a year and rode with my company for a couple years before that as an observer. I'm a full-time dispatcher, but also work in a rig a couple shifts a week in our county region. I've only ever run back to the hospital with my lights and sirens once, and that was cuz the woman was diabetic and we couldn't get an IV on her.
why didn't you give glucagon?
She wasn't conscious enough for it.
Huh? Glucagon is administered either IV or the most popular route of IM and usually for those that are unconscious and not being able to establish an IV.
2nd - potential MI at a "doc-in-the-box".... that was a a joke of a call... the guy's vitals were just fine.
First call as a student:
I remember as if it happened two minutes ago instead of two years...
Two car MVA with entrappments and death in the compartments.
Needless to say but not only was the on scene work a blast but the transport was a toughie to work.
I loved every minute of it.
First call as a certed EMT: Multiple GSW...shotgun (remember every bit)
long story short we basically did open chest CPR as the entire front ribcage and left arm were ripped away by the gunblasts. My medic later stated that he'd never started lines inside someones chest before. First learned that blood had a smell.
First call with own pt: Childbirth: (no I didnt deliver) an OB team jumped into the rig as we pulled in, we (ems) jumped out, and the kid came into the world two minutes later.
I LOVE trauma. I love ems, I love helping people. But for better or worse not a single call I have ever had has affected me. No, not bothered me, AFFECTED ME. I dont even think of my calls once I leave work. Never felt good about a call, just knew I'd done my job, Never had a single nightmare, and Ive done GSWs CPR on family members, 3rd degree burns on Peds. Maybe there is something wrong with me. Meh.. I hope tones drop for a car wreck tonite...its icy. ( no i am not someone who wants folks to get hurt, I just want to get paid for doing my job, instead of sitting on my butt)
I LOVE trauma. I love ems, I love helping people. But for better or worse not a single call I have ever had has affected me. No, not bothered me, AFFECTED ME. I dont even think of my calls once I leave work. Never felt good about a call, just knew I'd done my job, Never had a single nightmare, and Ive done GSWs CPR on family members, 3rd degree burns on Peds. Maybe there is something wrong with me.
Well then you obviously are truly a person of extreme apathy....or you have been on the job for what a few months? There's always at least one thing that affects everyone. Personally i think your FOS but that's just me. You ever work on someone you live with, work with every day, call your brother because they are closer than friends and most family could ever be...worked as hard you may, did everything in your power just to have them die on you? I have. I still dream of it and this was 2 years ago. Once you have been on the job long enough/ performed some of those things you claim to have. something will jostle you...make you question your profession, faith in humanity among other things. Don't try to bulls*** something like that. I have my Combat Medical Badge...that is something I would not wish on my worst enemy...