Well this is not that exciting, but maybe you will find it funny. So I just completed EMT-B and I am now on with a little mountain agency. This place only gets about 400 calls a year so we are talking pretty small. The calls we do get can be pretty good as they cover a large portion of I-70 just west of Denver.
So it is my first day on and most of it was pretty uneventful. Aside from the occasional Worlds Deadliest Police chases on TV, we had not seen much…This did not surprise me, because I would have to say I am a white cloud. I have about an hour left on my 12hr and am anxious to go home. And then, what happens? A tone of course. The call is an irritant in patient’s eye. I thought to myself “this should be interesting”. Never had to deal with an eye injury on any of my clinical.
So we go code 3 down I-70 and roll up with police on seen. The officer informed me that the Pt has superglue in her eye. I asked the officer why they were pulled over. “For suspicion of DUI.” I walked up to the Pt, took a look at her eye and it looked pretty bad. Were talking a total grey glob of superglue all around.
I decided to load and go as she seemed to be in A LOT of pain. I had the other EMT take vitals while I flushed the eye with saline. (They have 3 person rigs)
We finally got her to the hospital after sitting in traffic for 30 minutes. The doctor was able to save the eye, because this lucky woman was wearing contact lenses. The reason why she had superglue in her eye?...She had just smoked a joint and thought that is was Visine. All and all, I would say it was a pretty good first call.
So it is my first day on and most of it was pretty uneventful. Aside from the occasional Worlds Deadliest Police chases on TV, we had not seen much…This did not surprise me, because I would have to say I am a white cloud. I have about an hour left on my 12hr and am anxious to go home. And then, what happens? A tone of course. The call is an irritant in patient’s eye. I thought to myself “this should be interesting”. Never had to deal with an eye injury on any of my clinical.
So we go code 3 down I-70 and roll up with police on seen. The officer informed me that the Pt has superglue in her eye. I asked the officer why they were pulled over. “For suspicion of DUI.” I walked up to the Pt, took a look at her eye and it looked pretty bad. Were talking a total grey glob of superglue all around.
I decided to load and go as she seemed to be in A LOT of pain. I had the other EMT take vitals while I flushed the eye with saline. (They have 3 person rigs)
We finally got her to the hospital after sitting in traffic for 30 minutes. The doctor was able to save the eye, because this lucky woman was wearing contact lenses. The reason why she had superglue in her eye?...She had just smoked a joint and thought that is was Visine. All and all, I would say it was a pretty good first call.