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Kip Teitsort, Founder
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What would you do?
It is a warm sunny afternoon you and your partner are just getting ready to sit down and watch some TV at the base, when the tones go off.
You are dispatched to a report of a two-year-old child that is bleeding from the mouth. Dispatch asks you to call in for further information. When you call the familiar dispatcher on the phone, she tells you law enforcement is also en route. When you ask why, she tells you the caller sounded intoxicated. There are no other indicators of scene safety issues. The dispatched just wanted to “play it safe”.
As you arrive on the scene of a rural house a patrol car is pulling into the driveway ahead of you. The officer makes his way to the house a few feet ahead of you. Nothing seems out of the ordinary.
A scruffy looking man invites you in. He appears to be in his 50’s. He is of a large stature and has an un-kept appearance. He has a thick poorly groomed beard. He reeks of an alcoholic beverage. The man is cooperative and polite.
He tells you his nephew was jumping on the bed and is now bleeding from the mouth. You can see the child is up and playing. There is a small amount of blood on the child’s shirt.
Your partner puts on his gloves and without warning the man now yells “What do you need those for…….. You gonna put your finger up my a$$!!?? His tone has gone from cooperative to aggressive.
The police officer tells the man to “Shut up and let the ambulance guys do their job!” You try to explain to the man it is standard to wear gloves as the officer escorts the man across the room to a chair. The man sits in the chair and you continue your assessment. The man continues to mumble, but stays seated.
You notice the child appears fine. A small laceration on the bottom lip that has stopped bleeding is apparent.
Now, another man arrives at the residence claiming to be the child’s father. The man stated the other man, the scruffy guy, is actually the child’s uncle who was supposed to watch him while the actual father went to run errands.
The boys father explains the uncle has a drinking problem and was not drinking when he left a few hours earlier. You explain your physical assessment findings to the father and are obtaining a signature on the AMA Form. You are bottle necked in the foyer of the front door, prepping to leave when without warning you hear ‘You mother fu^*er$!! You look over your shoulder to see then man charging at you from across the room.
Your partner, the father (holding the child) and the police officer are all blocking your exit. The officer begins to push forward ( from behind you) as others are trying to get out the door.
Only a couple of nano-seconds pass before you are face to face with a hacked off, intoxicated Grizzly Adams…………………..
What do you do?
It is a warm sunny afternoon you and your partner are just getting ready to sit down and watch some TV at the base, when the tones go off.
You are dispatched to a report of a two-year-old child that is bleeding from the mouth. Dispatch asks you to call in for further information. When you call the familiar dispatcher on the phone, she tells you law enforcement is also en route. When you ask why, she tells you the caller sounded intoxicated. There are no other indicators of scene safety issues. The dispatched just wanted to “play it safe”.
As you arrive on the scene of a rural house a patrol car is pulling into the driveway ahead of you. The officer makes his way to the house a few feet ahead of you. Nothing seems out of the ordinary.
A scruffy looking man invites you in. He appears to be in his 50’s. He is of a large stature and has an un-kept appearance. He has a thick poorly groomed beard. He reeks of an alcoholic beverage. The man is cooperative and polite.
He tells you his nephew was jumping on the bed and is now bleeding from the mouth. You can see the child is up and playing. There is a small amount of blood on the child’s shirt.
Your partner puts on his gloves and without warning the man now yells “What do you need those for…….. You gonna put your finger up my a$$!!?? His tone has gone from cooperative to aggressive.
The police officer tells the man to “Shut up and let the ambulance guys do their job!” You try to explain to the man it is standard to wear gloves as the officer escorts the man across the room to a chair. The man sits in the chair and you continue your assessment. The man continues to mumble, but stays seated.
You notice the child appears fine. A small laceration on the bottom lip that has stopped bleeding is apparent.
Now, another man arrives at the residence claiming to be the child’s father. The man stated the other man, the scruffy guy, is actually the child’s uncle who was supposed to watch him while the actual father went to run errands.
The boys father explains the uncle has a drinking problem and was not drinking when he left a few hours earlier. You explain your physical assessment findings to the father and are obtaining a signature on the AMA Form. You are bottle necked in the foyer of the front door, prepping to leave when without warning you hear ‘You mother fu^*er$!! You look over your shoulder to see then man charging at you from across the room.
Your partner, the father (holding the child) and the police officer are all blocking your exit. The officer begins to push forward ( from behind you) as others are trying to get out the door.
Only a couple of nano-seconds pass before you are face to face with a hacked off, intoxicated Grizzly Adams…………………..
What do you do?
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