things you will never live down

Late one night, after a nice nap, we get a call for a motorcycle accident. We roll up and it is fairly obvious that the pt is 419. Completely zoned out I put the pulse ox on instead of the ekg. Luckily no one dogged me but my partner just said lets go ahead and print a strip for our paperwork. Felt like a moron.

Another time we ran a call...another nighttime call, we pull our brand new power gurney out with our brand new monitor. Get inside and find out FD is going to transport. I hop in their rig and give them a hand while my partner puts our stuff away. They transport and my partner rides in, code 3, I meet yhem at the hospital to pick him up. When we clear we get a call 40min away up on a mountain, we finally get there, I go to grab our equipment...no bed and no monitor. Needless to say we freak. Luckily we get cancelled. Turns out my partner just rested the bed against the back of the rig...at the top of a very high hill. We rush back to the last address and can't find it. We drive down the hill, 17 houses down we find our bed and monitor flipped and on the ground. Monitor is a good 10 feet from the bed. Pick it all up...not a single thing wrong, not even a scratch. We gave eachother a huge hug and vowed to never speak of tge incident.
 
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LSalander said:
3. Telling pt to "Enjoy your stay" at hospice
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Part of my "routine" is after giving report i pop back in the room to say goodbye. I feel like a butt because more than once I have popped back in and said "You get better, okay?" Or "I hope you get well soon!" To a hospice patient.

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b2dragun said:
The statute of limitations on that has come and gone, LOL. Plus my partner has since left the company
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There are quite a few things some of my previous partners and I are taking to the grave.

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Once used the pulse ox as v4 on a 12 lead...yeah everytime we do 12 lead training I have to tell my story
 
Not EMS related, but once the engine crew pulled crosslay #1.....and I charged #2. :-S

That hose sprang out of it's bed like it was possessed by the devil himself.

Every time I run the panel now, inevitably, someone will pull a line and holler "Charge number ONE!!! Repeat, number ONE!!!
 
1) I once tripped over the 12 lead cable while getting out the back to go drive. This successfully ripped most of the leads off the pts chest, along with a lot of hair. My partner could hardle compose himself he was laughing so hard. The pt just kinda ignored it, not sure how, they ware CA&O.

2) We had shore lines on our trucks to keep the heater on in cold weather. We got a call when it was raining and ran to the truck. I had my head down and didn't even think about unplugging the truck. The power cord came with us for about 500 yards and then came unhooked with a hell of a noise. I looked in the mirror and saw it laying on the side of the road and decided we would grab it when we got back. Yeah, it wasn't there by then. My partner never let me live that down.
 
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Not EMS related, but once the engine crew pulled crosslay #1.....and I charged #2. :-S

That hose sprang out of it's bed like it was possessed by the devil himself.

Every time I run the panel now, inevitably, someone will pull a line and holler "Charge number ONE!!! Repeat, number ONE!!!
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Been there too, sort of. I charged CL1 before it was completely pulled out at a car fire.

I also saw an overly excited Bat. Chief charge an entire hose bed of 2 1/2. That was fun.
 
I've shared them all. Use "SEARCH" (hahahaha).

One of my cohorts in the FD, nervous at his impending next wedding, one late autumn day was cleaning his P2 crash truck and responded code three to the flightline wihout shutting the side gullwing door, which weighed about fifty pounds and was supported by two dashpot and spring contraptions. The building's overhead door was so damaged we had to wait through two months of Nebraska winter with a 30 X 25 foot door wide open awaiting replacement. He drove down the flightline with the door hanging by its lighting wire until the chief caught up and gestured for him to stop (he left without his crew chief, and he was not answering to the radio).
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(The hatch is under the number "3" and has red printing on it. Ours was still red then).


Me? Responding code three and arriving sans litter. Had to make do with a FW folding one.
 
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So my phone rings in the middle of the night, and being used to 24's I jump up and answer "1302, this is Welch"... Ya, being it was my personall phone... My buddies won't let me live that one down. :P
 
DGreno said:
We had shore lines on our trucks to keep the heater on in cold weather. We got a call when it was raining and ran to the truck. I had my head down and didn't even think about unplugging the truck. The power cord came with us for about 500 yards and then came unhooked with a hell of a noise. I looked in the mirror and saw it laying on the side of the road and decided we would grab it when we got back. Yeah, it wasn't there by then. My partner never let me live that down.
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I was in the back when one of our drivers forgot to pull shore power. She never lived that down.
 
dstevens58 said:
I was in the back when one of our drivers forgot to pull shore power. She never lived that down.
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Really? That happens fairly often here. In fact, we have short little 12 inch pigtail connectors between the shore and the rig so we don't yank the reel out of the ceiling. At least once a month someone pulls out without dc-ing the shore power. :-S
 
Used to leave clipboard in the back of the truck; at ED, at scene at ECF.

Took one partner hitting me with it about 10 times before I learned not to do it anymore
 
lightsandsirens5 said:
Really? That happens fairly often here. In fact, we have short little 12 inch pigtail connectors between the shore and the rig so we don't yank the reel out of the ceiling. At least once a month someone pulls out without dc-ing the shore power. :-S
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Ours do this nifty little pop-off thing when the rig is started if it is still connected.
 
Picked up a respitory distress pt. and had placed them on a n/c 4lpm, upon arriving at the ER forgot to undo the n/c from the o2 port on the wall of the ambulance. My partner never noticed either, I pulled the stretcher out the back of the truck and damn near hung him! oppss
 
Sandman-EMT said:
Picked up a respitory distress pt. and had placed them on a n/c 4lpm, upon arriving at the ER forgot to undo the n/c from the o2 port on the wall of the ambulance. My partner never noticed either, I pulled the stretcher out the back of the truck and damn near hung him! oppss
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Ive done that more times than i would care to admit.

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Well........when I was a EMT-B (not that it matters), I put a NRB on a pt receiving CPR. The medic with me kindly said "Perhaps you can get an OPA and start bagging him".

Then it dawned on me. I guess I just referred to habit. LOL
 
Sandman-EMT said:
Picked up a respitory distress pt. and had placed them on a n/c 4lpm, upon arriving at the ER forgot to undo the n/c from the o2 port on the wall of the ambulance. My partner never noticed either, I pulled the stretcher out the back of the truck and damn near hung him! oppss
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Guilty :sad:
 
A few days ago, a patient mentioned as part of her history (not related to the current reason we were there) that all ten of her toes had been amputated.

I asked, "From which foot?" -_-
 
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