Longest time without a call?

[ACarpenter696]

Just curious. How long have some of you gone without a call during your shift?

 

[NomadicMedic]

I went 3 days without getting dispatched.

 

[DesertMedic66]

12 hours

 

[ACarpenter696]

Damn. How many calls do you average a shift? or does it vary?

 

[ACarpenter696]

Where are you guys located?

 

[Flying]

2 12s without a call in a place that averages 3-4 a night over a weekend

 

[CALEMT]

As a seasonal I would go weeks without a call. We worked 72 on 96 off. At my AMR gig I've gone 12 hours with no calls or post moves. I have yet to work a 24 without a call. Although Ive come damn close (2 in a 24).

 

[TransportJockey]

Four days. That's when I was working seven on, seven off in west Texas

 

[DesertMedic66]

Damn. How many calls do you average a shift? or does it vary?

It varies greatly. Some days we may only have 1 in a 12 hour shift and other days we may have 10+. My average (total guess) would be ~5.

Where are you guys located?

Southern California

 

[WolfmanHarris]

When I was unassigned to a specific station I spent a few weeks at our most rural station (we're a predominantly urban/sub-urban area with some rural; 80k calls a year) and went 9, 12 hour shifts without a patient contact. A few moves to cover another station but that was it. At my more central station I'm at now we do 3-5 calls in a 12 hour.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Four days. That's when I was working seven on, seven off in west Texas

I'd go nuts.

I've done a 16 with no calls or post moves, once.


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[TransportJockey]

I'd go nuts.

I've done a 16 with no calls or post moves, once.


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Dude it sucked. Horrible. And we could leave the station without our partner. By day four we were in our separate bunk rooms ava barely grunting at each other

 

[ACarpenter696]

Dude it sucked. Horrible. And we could leave the station without our partner. By day four we were in our separate bunk rooms ava barely grunting at each other

Its hard to imagine going that long without a call.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Dude it sucked. Horrible. And we could leave the station without our partner. By day four we were in our separate bunk rooms ava barely grunting at each other

I start getting bored after 12 hours. Right now I've got plenty of other stuff to do between learning the truck, equipment and studying our SOCs.

And napping. Only because we run more at night at my station....


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[BASICallyEMT]

I once had no call for two weeks! I was on a CCT shift though. Hated it.

 

[Tigger]

Twice a winter or we'll go a whole set with no calls while at our substation in nowheresville. No thanks.

 

[Jim37F]

Did a 12 hour shift with no calls once, one of 6 ambulances covering a city of ~200,000 population, 16,000 calls for service annually.

 

[cruiseforever]

When I first started out as a medic, I kept a log. For me it was six weeks without a call. Now I average 4 calls in a twelve hour shift.

 

[johnrsemt]

I have had 1 transport this year; and 4 refusals

 

[exodus]

As a seasonal I would go weeks without a call. We worked 72 on 96 off. At my AMR gig I've gone 12 hours with no calls or post moves. I have yet to work a 24 without a call. Although Ive come damn close (2 in a 24).

My first 24 we had a shut out