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I've been trying to figure out why my back hurts so bad. I just remembered drunkenly falling down a flight of stairs. That's probably it
 
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rmabrey said:
I've been trying to figure out why my back hurts so bad. I just remembered drunkenly falling down a flight of stairs. That's probably it
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Does not sound good.
Is it very painful? :unsure:
 
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I feel like posting a joke, just to make up for my previous asshattery.

Werner Heisenberg was driving down the road and a police officer pulled him over. The officer walked up and said "Do you have any idea how fast you were going, sir?"
Heisenberg replied with "No, but I know where I am!"
 
A typical night. One bite into my delicious dinner (meatloaf parm, a speciality of the local pizza house) we're dispatched to an Alpha level call for seizures. Alpha. The PMD criteria for medics is for Charlie and above. Why were we sent on this call, you may ask? Because the dispatcher can upgrade the response based on "her gut". Anyone see a problem here?
 
n7lxi said:
A typical night. One bite into my delicious dinner (meatloaf parm, a speciality of the local pizza house) we're dispatched to an Alpha level call for seizures. Alpha. The PMD criteria for medics is for Charlie and above. Why were we sent on this call, you may ask? Because the dispatcher can upgrade the response based on "her gut". Anyone see a problem here?
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Does she have a big gut? Maybe mistook it with hunger....
 
Or just decided that PMD was wrong and wanted to send medics "just in case" the conscious, alert patient might need an ALS intervention.

If that's the case, why PMD anything? Just send us to every call.
 
n7lxi said:
Or just decided that PMD was wrong and wanted to send medics "just in case" the conscious, alert patient might need an ALS intervention.

If that's the case, why PMD anything? Just send us to every call.
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It would be better to send Paramedics on all calls. Maybe dispatch is just ahead of the rest of your system.
 
medic417 said:
It would be better to send Paramedics on all calls. Maybe dispatch is just ahead of the rest of your system.
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This was a single dispatcher, not following dispatch protocol. Not "dispatch being ahead of the system". Our system works pretty darn well the way it is, with medics on fly cars... Or squad trucks, if you want to be specific. I have no issues with the PMD system... I do have issue with a dispatcher sending medics on a call that clearly didn't meet medic criteria.
 
Why does a seizure not meet your criteria for medics? Granted, person may have a history of them and refuse.. But it could also be a host of other things.
 
BandageBrigade said:
Why does a seizure not meet your criteria for medics? Granted, person may have a history of them and refuse.. But it could also be a host of other things.
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You know what you should do if someone has a seizure in the bathtub? Throw in your laundry.
 
BandageBrigade said:
Why does a seizure not meet your criteria for medics? Granted, person may have a history of them and refuse.. But it could also be a host of other things.
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That's more a question for the NAEMD and their dispatch protocols.


A person with a history of seizures, that is not actively seizing, and is waking up and breathing normally, is a low priority seizure call, and in places that use the Alpa-Echo (Omega) dispatch protocols will be sending a BLS unit / non-lights and sirens response.




usafmedic45 said:
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all weekend. Be sure to tip your waitstaff and try the veal!
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Cheater. She can't be counted as a true laugher.
 
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Cheater. She can't be counted as a true laugher.
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Fair enough, although she's at work at the moment so it's not like I told her to post that.
 
Does anyone else think the EMD dispatch protocols use leading questions to get an ALS response, hen e more money
 
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rmabrey said:
Did you steal that from "the most interesting ambulance crew in the world"
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No. I don't pay any attention to them. I first heard that joke about ten years ago.
 
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