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I just got back from a call for a 5yoM C/C "Nosebleed that wouldn't stop". We get there, and as we're getting out of the ambulance, we're told that the nosebleed has now stopped. We went in, spoke with the family, assessed the kid and got a refusal signed.
The part that I want to discuss with the group is how we were paged out. We received 3 pages over a 5 minute period, and each time the dispatcher sounded more exasperated that we hadn't responded yet. Most of us don't take radios home, and almost all of us live over 5 minutes away from the station. We are supposed to be paged out every 5 minutes until somebody responds on the radio that we've received the page.
I would just like to know how you deal with impatient dispatchers, if you have them.
The part that I want to discuss with the group is how we were paged out. We received 3 pages over a 5 minute period, and each time the dispatcher sounded more exasperated that we hadn't responded yet. Most of us don't take radios home, and almost all of us live over 5 minutes away from the station. We are supposed to be paged out every 5 minutes until somebody responds on the radio that we've received the page.
I would just like to know how you deal with impatient dispatchers, if you have them.