Oh joy...

[traumateam1]

Just wanted to do a little ranting about how I will be doing a total of 65 hours of Stand By Medical Aid for a big event starting tomorrow. It's a 5 day event and I will be there everyday. Last year when I did this.. I was burnt out after that for two weeks. After all it is about 11 hours a day in the hot sun. So I hope this time it will be a little better...
:censored::censored::censored::censored:

On the bright side.. last year I did it, it was very busy.
3x grand mal seizure, cardiac emergency, I stopped a rape... Knife fight, countless assaults, and many others.

Thank you all for letting me rant. :glare:

 

[Hastings]

Just wanted to do a little ranting about how I will be doing a total of 65 hours of Stand By Medical Aid for a big event starting tomorrow. It's a 5 day event and I will be there everyday. Last year when I did this.. I was burnt out after that for two weeks. After all it is about 11 hours a day in the hot sun. So I hope this time it will be a little better...
:censored::censored::censored::censored:

On the bright side.. last year I did it, it was very busy.
3x grand mal seizure, cardiac emergency, I stopped a rape... Knife fight, countless assaults, and many others.

Thank you all for letting me rant. :glare:

Wow, you're kinda like a do-it-all.

Way to go with those last three though. A bit beyond the general scope of practice and yet all awesome.

 

[KEVD18]

i dont know what it is about me but i let the guys with the guns deal with the violence and the guys with the hoses deal with the hot stuff so i can stick to doing my job. i know, its weird...

 

[traumateam1]

For the rape.. My partner and I were sitting there and a home care nurse came and got us.. so we went over and as I went down this little hill (pretty much in plain view for everyone to see) a cop pulled around the corner so my partner flagged him down, and then I've never seen a cop move so fast before in my life.
I do gotta say.. that was the only time in my life (to date) that a cop was where you needed them at the right time.

 

[mikeylikesit]

i have had weeks where i did 96 hours in a row...we were short and had no other choice...i feel you though.

 

[traumateam1]

Well just to update all you that posted lol...
It went good, it was very long but I lived!!
In total we had 119 injuries.. mostly minors however we had a few majors.
They included,
A woman who broker her back,
Triage.. dancers went down with heat exhaustion (about 20 of them) and 1 ended up with the heat stroke and me taking off my shoes and socks and talking with her knee deep into the lake and holding her in for about 7 minutes. 1 with heat exhaustion and diabetic emerg. and 1 with heat exhaustion and asthma attack.
And a woman who had heat stroke and 4 grand mal seizures.
Those were the 3 main situations.
Well off to bed. Take care everyone, and stay safe out there!

 

[mycrofft]

We once had to listen to Rickie Nelson sing live ("Garden Party"!) for ten hours

alternating with the "WOO!" 's of the amplified lady we came to call the Aerobics Mau-Mau at the Nebraska State Fair. Tell ME about inhuman assingments!

 

[traumateam1]

Haha I can't stop laughing.. but at the same time I feel for you. How DID you survive?

 

[emt19723]

im feeling you too!! 123 last week, with only 18 hours off. last week sucked!!! lol