What was your first 911 call?

I'm still pretty new so very easy to remember it was a "possible stroke" ended up some sort of intoxication and the patient was naked and pissing on the fire truck when I arrived... I rode in cab on the first call then first call I rode in the back was a nausea and vomiting call and yeah it went okay but I still made a fool out of my self medic asked me to grab a fluid pack 1L NS and get it open couldn't get the plastic off then asked me to spike it and I dropped it ... Patient was looking at me like I was stupid and I promise I felt like I was also
 
jjyi24 said:
First call was for an ankle fracture at a soccer game. First real call was an aortic dissection. Couldn't wrap my boot-brain around how it wasn't a CVA for the whole call.
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What does CVA mean?
 
ChrisMed1 said:
I'm still pretty new so very easy to remember it was a "possible stroke" ended up some sort of intoxication and the patient was naked and pissing on the fire truck when I arrived... I rode in cab on the first call then first call I rode in the back was a nausea and vomiting call and yeah it went okay but I still made a fool out of my self medic asked me to grab a fluid pack 1L NS and get it open couldn't get the plastic off then asked me to spike it and I dropped it ... Patient was looking at me like I was stupid and I promise I felt like I was also
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you think that's bad? imagine spiking a 1 L bag, and poking a hole through the bag with the sterile spike... yeah, I did that... saline everywhere, such a mess....

we all make mistakes, we all do stupid things, and we all embarrass ourselves for various reasons at one point during our career. And yes, we all miss clinical things, where in hindsight, it was painfully obvious. Don't dwell on it; the important thing is to learn from your mistakes, and don't repeat them.
 
DrParasite said:
you think that's bad? imagine spiking a 1 L bag, and poking a hole through the bag with the sterile spike... yeah, I did that... saline everywhere, such a mess....

we all make mistakes, we all do stupid things, and we all embarrass ourselves for various reasons at one point during our career. And yes, we all miss clinical things, where in hindsight, it was painfully obvious. Don't dwell on it; the important thing is to learn from your mistakes, and don't repeat them.
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Going to add one other thing to this...don't hide your mistakes. Own up to them
 
DrParasite said:
you think that's bad? imagine spiking a 1 L bag, and poking a hole through the bag with the sterile spike... yeah, I did that... saline everywhere, such a mess....

we all make mistakes, we all do stupid things, and we all embarrass ourselves for various reasons at one point during our career. And yes, we all miss clinical things, where in hindsight, it was painfully obvious. Don't dwell on it; the important thing is to learn from your mistakes, and don't repeat them.
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there was a firehouse that would do maybe a call a day and one day they noticed moisture in the LR packaging and threw about four cases away thinking they were leaking...
 
Mine was a simple altered mental status. That was as a student on my first clinical. I think she had a UTI best I remember.
 
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