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Been training with St John Ambulance as a cadet to provide first aid a local and major (including sporting) events and we were discussing and training for Anaphylactic shock. So someone told us a story.
They was at a sporting event where the wife runs into the first aid room screaming help my husband he is having a severe reaction to the fish he just ate, and it's happened before. The responder runs to the guy who doesn't have an EpiPen. Ambulance is called (got there quickly)... so anyway once the paramedics inject some adrenaline and the hand over from St John Ambulance to the state run ambulance occurs, the responder asks Why don't you have an EpiPen (EpiPens were very expensive at that time)? If this has happened before, Why did you eat fish? To which the guy replied I like the taste of fish. What an idiot this guy is eating something he knows can kill him, especially when he doesn't have an EpiPen. :wacko:
A side note. St John Ambulance doesn't carry EpiPens for three reasons that I know of.
They was at a sporting event where the wife runs into the first aid room screaming help my husband he is having a severe reaction to the fish he just ate, and it's happened before. The responder runs to the guy who doesn't have an EpiPen. Ambulance is called (got there quickly)... so anyway once the paramedics inject some adrenaline and the hand over from St John Ambulance to the state run ambulance occurs, the responder asks Why don't you have an EpiPen (EpiPens were very expensive at that time)? If this has happened before, Why did you eat fish? To which the guy replied I like the taste of fish. What an idiot this guy is eating something he knows can kill him, especially when he doesn't have an EpiPen. :wacko:
A side note. St John Ambulance doesn't carry EpiPens for three reasons that I know of.
- They are expensive (St John Ambulance is non profit)
- They only last around 12 months
- Most equipment is stored in vehicles especially at local events and it gets quite hot where I am.