Whipe out.

BlueJayMedic

BlueJayMedic

Interrupting natural selection since 2010
Messages
114
Reaction score
54
Points
28
Took a tumble back in March, figured if anyone would appreciate this x-Ray it would be all you guys. I was walking into one of my first advanced care hospital clinical shifts after paying for my parking and slipped on the ice about 50 feet from the ambulance bay, slammed my foot down to try and stop the fall. Had to call my 911 to get my coworkers to come pick me up and take me in...

Open reduction, a plate and 12 screws to secure it. Finally back on my feet and starting ride outs.
 

Attachments

  • image.jpg
    image.jpg
    941.6 KB · Views: 323
  • image.jpg
    image.jpg
    1,016.9 KB · Views: 294
  • image.jpg
    image.jpg
    1.1 MB · Views: 304
Ouch Bro. Had a guy last week fall off some scaffolding (only 6ft) and he shattered his ulna, broke the end of his radius. broke the ball of his hip, crushed his hip socket and had a possible pelvis fracture. He said he kept working while the other guys went to breakfast. I told him he should have went to breakfast, good patient tho, took it like a trooper.
 
Jondruby said:
Ouch Bro. Had a guy last week fall off some scaffolding (only 6ft) and he shattered his ulna, broke the end of his radius. broke the ball of his hip, crushed his hip socket and had a possible pelvis fracture. He said he kept working while the other guys went to breakfast. I told him he should have went to breakfast, good patient tho, took it like a trooper.
Click to expand...
Haha tougher guy than me that's for sure. I learned a lot about pain management and splinting that day... Lessons that cannot be taught. The morphine pouch opens a little easier ever since that spill.
 
I have co workers get on me about pain management: I figure in alot of cases (kidney stones, for example) there is not much to do besides make the patient pain free (or at least less pain); so If I can help them I do.
Other Medics brag about never giving pain meds "I will not be responsible for addicting someone to pain meds". Had one medic tell me that in 12 years she has NEVER given pain meds to a patient, but if she ever gets hurt she wants me to be her medic.

Sorry go work in a different field.

Glad you can work now BlueJay. Need to share the after surgery x-ray
 
johnrsemt said:
I have co workers get on me about pain management: I figure in alot of cases (kidney stones, for example) there is not much to do besides make the patient pain free (or at least less pain); so If I can help them I do.
Other Medics brag about never giving pain meds "I will not be responsible for addicting someone to pain meds". Had one medic tell me that in 12 years she has NEVER given pain meds to a patient, but if she ever gets hurt she wants me to be her medic.

Sorry go work in a different field.

Glad you can work now BlueJay. Need to share the after surgery x-ray
Click to expand...

don't have one at the moment, will try and get one next time I go see the ortho. Our base hospital program here has been preaching pain management and adjusting standing protocols to include more for the comfort of our patients. Toradol was recently added, pediatric pain management and protocols expanding to include a more broad spectrum of patients. I can usually tell the difference in drug seeking behaviour and true pain. If it hurts me to look at you, your getting the whole vial ++!!
 
johnrsemt said:
I have co workers get on me about pain management: I figure in alot of cases (kidney stones, for example) there is not much to do besides make the patient pain free (or at least less pain); so If I can help them I do.
Other Medics brag about never giving pain meds "I will not be responsible for addicting someone to pain meds". Had one medic tell me that in 12 years she has NEVER given pain meds to a patient, but if she ever gets hurt she wants me to be her medic.

Sorry go work in a different field.

Glad you can work now BlueJay. Need to share the after surgery x-ray
Click to expand...
When I was a line supervisor at AMR I got the same attitude. Until our medical director held up my stack of QAd charts (she QA'd every narcotic admin) and told all the medics she should have stacks like that from everyone if they had patients in pain. By the time I left, we had medics that would happily empty narc pouches to make patients comfortable and to actually help people.
 
BlueJayMedic said:
Took a tumble back in March, figured if anyone would appreciate this x-Ray it would be all you guys. I was walking into one of my first advanced care hospital clinical shifts after paying for my parking and slipped on the ice about 50 feet from the ambulance bay, slammed my foot down to try and stop the fall. Had to call my 911 to get my coworkers to come pick me up and take me in...

Open reduction, a plate and 12 screws to secure it. Finally back on my feet and starting ride outs.
Click to expand...

Damn man I bet that felt amazing, if it were me I think a man tear would have been shed.
 
CALEMT said:
Damn man I bet that felt amazing, if it were me I think a man tear would have been shed.
Click to expand...

Only one man tear though. Any more would be unmanly.
 
Isn't there some medic getting sued some place for withholding pain meds from patients for years? I vaguely remember seeing an article about that recently.

Anyways, tough luck on the ice, bro... Glad you're back on your feet.
 
I know what you went thru. 8 years ago I got into a wreck on my way home from work. One of the multiple fractures was the left tib/fib. It actually broke the tib into 3 pieces. Had an ORIF with rod placed to fix it. I was out of work for about 9 months.

Physical therapy suuuuuucked. And my ortho doc would only write for ultram for pain. Refused to give me anything narcotic after hospital discharge.
 
@ Transport Jockey: My old supervisor used to go to the Medical Director complaining that I was giving out more pain meds than the next 2 medics combined in our company. Our Medical Director pulled me into his office one evening and challenged me to start pushing more than the next 4 combined. I did it; Supervisor complained about that too. And about other things he thought I was doing wrong.
FInally the medical director told me if I kept going the way I was going I would give the Supervisor a stroke, and challenged me to keep doing it, to get the supervisor off of HIS back.

@SHFD: I hate it when doctors won't give pain meds; if it hurts stop the pain. Proven time and again people heal faster when they do NOT hurt all the time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top