emt19723
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i will give you guys the low-down for a call i had last night:
tones drop for an unknown problem, class 2 response(BLS only emergency, for those of you not from PA). we go responding, dispatch comes across and is upgrading us now to Class 1 for trouble breathing. ok, no problem.
get on scene, pt is a female having a SEVERE emotional crisis. she was hyperventilating (the "breathing problem"). asked the pt a bunch of questions, and all i can get out of her is her name, and she has no pain. checked vitals...they look good. i placed the medics back in service.
95% of the whole time i was in contact with this pt, whenever i would ask her something, she would do nothing but look at me and start crying. thats about it. i felt bad cuz she was frustrating the crap out of me by not answering me. then i felt bad for the hospital, cuz all i could give them was her name, and that her b-day was in May. that was the only thing this girl told me. thought maybe she'd talk to my partner cuz she was a female....nope......same reaction. she would just bawl.
so....opening up here for some feedback and suggestions for how to handle another situation like this if it were to come back up again. id like to think i have a very long span of patience, but this girl definitely pushed the limit.
tones drop for an unknown problem, class 2 response(BLS only emergency, for those of you not from PA). we go responding, dispatch comes across and is upgrading us now to Class 1 for trouble breathing. ok, no problem.
get on scene, pt is a female having a SEVERE emotional crisis. she was hyperventilating (the "breathing problem"). asked the pt a bunch of questions, and all i can get out of her is her name, and she has no pain. checked vitals...they look good. i placed the medics back in service.
95% of the whole time i was in contact with this pt, whenever i would ask her something, she would do nothing but look at me and start crying. thats about it. i felt bad cuz she was frustrating the crap out of me by not answering me. then i felt bad for the hospital, cuz all i could give them was her name, and that her b-day was in May. that was the only thing this girl told me. thought maybe she'd talk to my partner cuz she was a female....nope......same reaction. she would just bawl.
so....opening up here for some feedback and suggestions for how to handle another situation like this if it were to come back up again. id like to think i have a very long span of patience, but this girl definitely pushed the limit.