the 100% directionless thread

My issue with the automatic is that extra bit of weight makes my regulars that are on the heavy side almost impossible for me to lift it up high enough to get the back half into the rig. But I'm strength training and will get there soon I hope. It's irritating struggeling with it and having my partner just stand there watching me.
 
Sassafras said:
My issue with the automatic is that extra bit of weight makes my regulars that are on the heavy side almost impossible for me to lift it up high enough to get the back half into the rig. But I'm strength training and will get there soon I hope. It's irritating struggeling with it and having my partner just stand there watching me.
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Why isn't your partner helping you lift?
 
I'm sitting in a parking lot right now because I had an ift trnasport that got pushed for 2.5 hours later. Boss directed me to eat lunch since coming back to station would leave me with 20 minutes before I had to turn back around and come back to area I last dropped a patient off at. I've eaten. I've hunted down my fave candy store to discover it closed and still don't have a patient ready for transport. Gonna have to start eating slower.
 
katgrl2003 said:
Why isn't your partner helping you lift?
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Why have they left me alone in doctor offices with bariatric patients also? I don't know why they do what they do. I'm the new kid on the block though. I am just keeping quiet and working on my strength training. I have to improve it anyway so I look at it as practice.
 
No, that is the point of proper use!

If the pt is heavy, then both should be lifting into truck. Do not kill your back, for a lazy partner!
 
reaper said:
No, that is the point of proper use!

If the pt is heavy, then both should be lifting into truck. Do not kill your back, for a lazy partner!
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yup. you hurt your back. your partner watches someone else do the same thing while you heal up... if you heal.
 
My partner has a nasty habit of lowering the cot too far, or raising it too high as to have no leverage.


If it's in one of those 2 positions, I tell him I simply refuse to lift. Simple as that. I'm not going to risk my career to take granny home.
 
medic417 said:
For stairs use the stair chair.
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We were transporting a 10 y/o in a halo from a diving accident to have it " re tightened ". Mother called frantic that it had appeared to be loose and had her daughter lying as still as a dead person. We boarded the pt but for some reason the Medic wanted the cot up the "5' steps to put her on it right away. Either way pt was secured to board, cot then down the 5 steps to the sidewalk.

I'd rather have secured to the board properly and moved outside this way then secured to the cot , I'm not thinking the mother would have allowed her daughter to sit up for a stair chair ...any other instance that I think would have worked great.
 
katgrl2003 said:
Why isn't your partner helping you lift?
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He is probably too busy looking thru the Clinical Guidelines and scratching his head going "man, what the bloody hell is a Sassafras?"

Had a go at 6.19am today, it wasn't an RTA nor did it require HEMS or an Intensive Care Paramedic, so I rolled over and went back to sleep :D
 
MrBrown said:
He is probably too busy looking thru the Clinical Guidelines and scratching his head going "man, what the bloody hell is a Sassafras?"
:D
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THIS is a Sassafras :P
Sassafras-tree.jpg
 
w00t! I am claming a CPR save. Narcotic OD was in full arrest when we arrived. Started CPR and transported. Narcan brought her right out of it. I mean from asystole to sinus tach in about 10 seconds. Quite an experience.
 
lightsandsirens5 said:
w00t! I am claming a CPR save. Narcotic OD was in full arrest when we arrived. Started CPR and transported. Narcan brought her right out of it. I mean from asystole to sinus tach in about 10 seconds. Quite an experience.
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Rock on.

It's raining here.
 
Big old missing person search going on in the national forest about 30 miles from me. 8 y/o girl missing since 1600 yesterday. Hopefully it turns out good, it was down to about 40 last night. They have probably 100 people right now. SO, ESAR, Boarder Patrol K9 units, Park Service, Forest Service Fire, BIA Air, the Air Force, the Fire District, you name it. I and another guy have been put on standby for when they start rotating people.

Not a good situation.
 
108 degrees with 87% humidity. And frequent power outages. I hate when the mountains that surround this area get rain. It gets bloody hot.
 
Brown is displeased.

In New Zealand, medicine is five years undergraduate leading to Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery plus one year as a trainee intern (technically Year 6). Graduate entry into medicine is very unusual although a small number (around 20%) do get accepted as a Degree graduate.

Entry into the MBChB is either by....

a. Completing Health Science Year 1, provided you have not completed more than one year of University study, or
b. Applying as a graduate provided your GPA is at least 75% (B+)

This is bad because Brown has ....

a. Completed three years of University study making him inelegible for HSY1 (I wasn't able to complete HSY1 as part of my degree) and
b. Has a Degree with a GPA of 71%

.... now, excuse Brown while he goes to the corner, says bad words and tightly zips up his jumpsuit with "DOCTOR" written on it coz like hell I am getting it taken off me! :unsure:
 
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lightsandsirens5 said:
Big old missing person search going on in the national forest about 30 miles from me. 8 y/o girl missing since 1600 yesterday. Hopefully it turns out good, it was down to about 40 last night. They have probably 100 people right now. SO, ESAR, Boarder Patrol K9 units, Park Service, Forest Service Fire, BIA Air, the Air Force, the Fire District, you name it. I and another guy have been put on standby for when they start rotating people.

Not a good situation.
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She is still missing. I am schedualed to join the search tomorrow morning. Wish us luck. It has now been almost 30 hours since she was last seen.
 
Lifeguards For Life said:
Is this why Brown promptly leaves the chat room every time Lifeguards For Life comes to chat?
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I can't even get IN the chat room.

In other random conversation, working for a private company blows. Last three 24-hour shifts, no sleep, clinicals between and class at night. Somethin's gotta give because my lack of sleep has significantly contributed to the deterioration of my usually chipper attitude.

:nosoupfortroll:
 
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