Last call of the day is....

Last was a garden variety kid with fever.
 
Penile hemorrhage...I reminded my partner (21 y/o and female who was doing patient care) about the basics...if the bleeding is not controlled to apply direct pressure. You should have seen the look she gave me. I also mentioned as an after thought that if all else failed we could try a tourniquet, got another funny look from that comment as well.
 
Lol
 
Bari pt with bilateral knee pain...
 
42 yo female, right hip pain s/p fall -loc
 
My last call of the weekend last weekend was a diabetic who's blood sugar was 20. Almost identical to the one I posted about in a different thread, but this time he was A/Ox4 and not combative. Refused IV for D50, did agree to Oral glucose and a peanut butter sandwich. His blood sugar was 38, when we got a refusal with medical direction contact.
 
Hospital discharge - 30 YOF with end stage alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Her skin was so jaundiced that it was literally green. It was pretty sad. I've never seen it that bad in someone so young. :(
 
Last time I worked was Tuesday. We were dispatched to a respiratory distress call. Walked in and it turned out to be a cardiac arrest.
 
Stabbed in back of neck at base of skull and in the LL abdomen. Lost probably 3000+ mLs of blood; took 2000 mLs of fluid in the field and 4 units of blood in the ED before making it into the OR. Looks like he'll make it. [emoji482]


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Stabbed in back of neck at base of skull and in the LL abdomen. Lost probably 3000+ mLs of blood; took 2000 mLs of fluid in the field and 4 units of blood in the ED before making it into the OR. Looks like he'll make it. [emoji482]


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Damn!
 
Near syncope at a hair salon. 80s/40s for a pressure, and of course the patient who mentioned many times that she was a nurse wanted to drive herself.
 
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An extremely dehydrated heat exhaustion patient asked me the following at various times: Should get tested for HIV and Hep C if he was worried he'd been exposed; Where he could get free water since he didn't have any since last night; Why his IV start hurt more than tattoos; and if we were hiring.

Answers in my head? Yeah (duh), literally anywhere (somewhere truly exotic like McDonald's for a start...), because you're thinking about it too much, and yes we're hiring, but probably not you.

Hopefully I came across as slightly more diplomatic.
 
We got slammed all day and our last call came in as rectum pain... Pt had a hemorrhoid... It was the last day of our bid. That called summed up our entire 6 months
 
34 yo female, 6 months pregnant lower abdominal pain due to MVC
 
One of my last was a "didn't want to leave, couldn't stay and couldn't make up his mind" kind of dude. Left before I did...
 
Little old lady called from one of those little assisted living places that are a converted house. (My grandpa is in a nice one in Orange County.....this one was tiny and looked rather illegal, if they had all their paperwork in order, the packrat conditions could easily change that, place was nasty). Lady called because she was worried that her blood pressure was too high, and that her roommates blood pressure was too low as well as a couple of other chronic conditions (aka why they're in the assisted living place in the first place)......oh she never actually checked any blood pressures, neither of them wanted to go to the hospital, oh and this was all at 0400...
 
Heat stroke patient going in and out of consciousness who has been working outside in the 111 degree temps with 30% humidity for 6 hours.

Unknown temp on scene (we don't carry thermometers). Cold packs on neck, armpits, groin. Dumped water on him, took cloths off, AC full blast, and cold saline bolus. Rectal temp at the ED was 100.8.
 
First and last call of the day today: vehicle into a house at ~40mph. 2 minor injuries.
 
ATV accident waaaaaayyyy into the woods. Got the call at 2330, back at the station at 530. Guy had a clavicle and rib fractures which the helicopter crew found a bit beneath them. Sorry guys, you're taking him. It took us an hour to get to the patient by ATV, probably triple that time out with a patient in a stokes. Plus the 90 minute ground transport.
 
Last call of this shift was a syncopal episode. kid passed out in the roadway, passerby almost ran him over and stopped to help him. PT said he can't remember his name or where he is. Get him in the back of the truck and he starts "remembering" things. Wants to go to the hospital. Deputy on scene gets a hold of kids guardian, who tells us that he ran away from home after being caught looking at homosexual porn and having his phone taken away. He can't consent to treatment because he's a minor, and guardian decides to take him in...I had a canceled call, and a refusal yesterday. A good day, indeed.
 
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