MedicPrincess
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My number was up last night. It was my "lucky" night to get to try out all that fancy crap we learn in PALS. So, now its my "lucky" turn to get it out...
We were only about 1 mile from the address, so not only were we the first on scene, but we beat S.O. to the call too. On the way there the EMS dispatcher gave us 9 month old, FD's dispatcher gave them 9 week old. I asked our dispatcher which was it 9wk or 9mo...to which he replied... "Stand-By"
I haven't yet expressed how much I REALLY want a new partner...but thats another story...so anyway, she looks at me and asks if it really matters if its 9wks, 9mo, or 9yrs...Um...yea...it does.
As we turn into the neighborhood, its clear the entire trailer park is in a frenzy. We have to stop about 3 trailers away from where we needed to be, b/c people kept running in front of us. Didn't matter anyway, as I opened my door to and goto get out a man came running through the crowd yelling, "Oh thank GOD!! I have been doing compressions on his back for 4 min now!!!" (who the heck is teaching compressions on the back!! When I took the baby from him, he tried to grab him and roll him over so I could do them on the back!) And sure enough, he had a very obvious 9 WEEK old boy laid over his arms and was doing compressions between the shoulder blades. He then...almost....threw the baby at me...But I managed to closed the gap between him and I so I could take him.
He was cold, covered in vomit....clearly not saveable. I climbed up in the truck telling my partner (who was in the back getting our stuff together to take in the house) to clear the stretcher and tossed my braslow tape at her. AND...she was frozen where she stood...just staring at me...mouth open a little. So now I am pulling crap off the stretcher, grabbing a BVM, the monitor, the pedi bag...and trying to do compressions...on the chest this time...and telling S.O. who had got there to get one of the Medics off the ALS engine that had arrived and tell him to get over to me, so I could get some help.
Somewhere my partner remembered she wasn't a bystander and managed to take the BVM and start that. Once I got the FF's on board, I told her to get going. We had half the damn trailer park crawling in every door they could find. They bystanders were like freaking roaches....just when you think you had them contained...a dozen more showed up.
We suctioned 25cc of formula that seemed to continuously pour from the baby's mouth and nose...got him intubated...it got pulled....reintubated... an IO and a round of drugs in the 5 minute transport to the ER.
25 min later, the Dr called him. Mom was in the room when the Dr called him. It wasn't long before she had her son swaddled in a blanket and was holding him as if nothing was wrong....she had pulled the tube...Of all the people involved...other than the parents obviously...the person I feel the worst for, is the S.O. deputy that had to go into that ER room and take that baby out of that mothers arms.
Sucks....its the second in a week for our service (the private one I work for).
We were only about 1 mile from the address, so not only were we the first on scene, but we beat S.O. to the call too. On the way there the EMS dispatcher gave us 9 month old, FD's dispatcher gave them 9 week old. I asked our dispatcher which was it 9wk or 9mo...to which he replied... "Stand-By"
I haven't yet expressed how much I REALLY want a new partner...but thats another story...so anyway, she looks at me and asks if it really matters if its 9wks, 9mo, or 9yrs...Um...yea...it does.
As we turn into the neighborhood, its clear the entire trailer park is in a frenzy. We have to stop about 3 trailers away from where we needed to be, b/c people kept running in front of us. Didn't matter anyway, as I opened my door to and goto get out a man came running through the crowd yelling, "Oh thank GOD!! I have been doing compressions on his back for 4 min now!!!" (who the heck is teaching compressions on the back!! When I took the baby from him, he tried to grab him and roll him over so I could do them on the back!) And sure enough, he had a very obvious 9 WEEK old boy laid over his arms and was doing compressions between the shoulder blades. He then...almost....threw the baby at me...But I managed to closed the gap between him and I so I could take him.
He was cold, covered in vomit....clearly not saveable. I climbed up in the truck telling my partner (who was in the back getting our stuff together to take in the house) to clear the stretcher and tossed my braslow tape at her. AND...she was frozen where she stood...just staring at me...mouth open a little. So now I am pulling crap off the stretcher, grabbing a BVM, the monitor, the pedi bag...and trying to do compressions...on the chest this time...and telling S.O. who had got there to get one of the Medics off the ALS engine that had arrived and tell him to get over to me, so I could get some help.
Somewhere my partner remembered she wasn't a bystander and managed to take the BVM and start that. Once I got the FF's on board, I told her to get going. We had half the damn trailer park crawling in every door they could find. They bystanders were like freaking roaches....just when you think you had them contained...a dozen more showed up.
We suctioned 25cc of formula that seemed to continuously pour from the baby's mouth and nose...got him intubated...it got pulled....reintubated... an IO and a round of drugs in the 5 minute transport to the ER.
25 min later, the Dr called him. Mom was in the room when the Dr called him. It wasn't long before she had her son swaddled in a blanket and was holding him as if nothing was wrong....she had pulled the tube...Of all the people involved...other than the parents obviously...the person I feel the worst for, is the S.O. deputy that had to go into that ER room and take that baby out of that mothers arms.
Sucks....its the second in a week for our service (the private one I work for).
