Well time has passed by and I have had little to write about, no energy to write or just been lazy? Inquiring minds want to know.
Since my last post, I have finally had another A/E shift although not with my mentor. I worked a 1pm till 1am shift on an ambo. The crew was made up of a paramedic who is a good friend of my mentor and my mentor's normal technician partner.
The paramedic has worked in Manchester for the last 10 years, he used to be a marine, lives on a barge and so in my eyes is very cool. He reminds me of McNulty from the wire and I'm not surprised to hear he has a bit of a rep. (Let's just say you would trust him with you life but not with your wife)
His crew mate (a technician) looks like she would be happier working in a violent inner city pub. A heavy set young girl with a smile that seems to come at all the wrong times. Her iphone is permanently attached to her left ear.
Technicians are trained in BLS, Anatomy, Pharmacology, ECG Monitoring and Spinal Immobilization. Which is pretty much the same as paramedics apart from they can't give good drugs (morphine) or intubate (tube down the throat). Their salary is about the same as a first year paramedic and they love pointing this out to students.
After smokes, teas, and equipment check, the first call came in.
An 84 year old lady that had indeed fallen and fractured her left hip (short hand # is the symbol for Fracture for time saving form filling paramedics). She also had tenderness in her neck and lower back so she got long boarded and dog collared. We gave her Entonox for the pain and shipped her off slowly off to A/E.
The day stayed slow with 2 possible strokes, a seizing child and a lady with heart problems. All were pretty much stable by the time we got there (average 7 mins) so we ran our ops and took them to hospital. It's hard sometimes as you might never know what was wrong with these people. More frustrating however was our next type of patient.
The message came up on our screen that patient has had D/V (diarrhoea and vomiting) for the last 4 days. On arriving at the property we were taken upstairs by her husband. She was middle aged female lying partly dressed in bed making moaning noises.
I asked her my basic questions. How can I help? Where does it hurt? For how long? She cried alot and told me that she was in no pain but felt very ill, had seen a doctor and had been told she had flu. The paramedic took her temp, blood pressure, blood sugar, pulse, blood o2. All were normal.
I ran out of questions and started to feel uncomfortable? I told her there was nothing we could do for flu that all her stats were fine and she needed to wait it out. She started crying louder. So like a good member of the ambulance service I gave her the choice. DO YOU WANT TO GO TO HOSPITAL??
For some reason hundreds of people with flu every week think that A/E is a better place to sit for 4 hours rather than being at home. They fill doctors surgeries with their coughs and sniffles hoping for a cure.
Modern medicine is amazing if you heart is about to pack in or you need a new liver. Brain tumor? No problem. We can can grow you a new ear on the back of a mouse should yours get eaten by a rapist boxer. We can't, however, cure you of the flu. You need to wait and drink fluids.
Huge investment has gone into daytime TV so that you can lie on the sofa and die in front of arguing couples goaded by gambling addicts or twats buying planted priceless items at car boot sales normally populated by pirated DVDs.
Don't call 999 and take away an ambulance from somebody that might fucking need it.
I asked her my basic questions. How can I help? Where does it hurt? For how long? She cried alot and told me that she was in no pain but felt very ill, had seen a doctor and had been told she had flu. The paramedic took her temp, blood pressure, blood sugar, pulse, blood o2. All were normal.
I ran out of questions and started to feel uncomfortable? I told her there was nothing we could do for flu that all her stats were fine and she needed to wait it out. She started crying louder. So like a good member of the ambulance service I gave her the choice. DO YOU WANT TO GO TO HOSPITAL??
For some reason hundreds of people with flu every week think that A/E is a better place to sit for 4 hours rather than being at home. They fill doctors surgeries with their coughs and sniffles hoping for a cure.
Modern medicine is amazing if you heart is about to pack in or you need a new liver. Brain tumor? No problem. We can can grow you a new ear on the back of a mouse should yours get eaten by a rapist boxer. We can't, however, cure you of the flu. You need to wait and drink fluids.
Huge investment has gone into daytime TV so that you can lie on the sofa and die in front of arguing couples goaded by gambling addicts or twats buying planted priceless items at car boot sales normally populated by pirated DVDs.
Don't call 999 and take away an ambulance from somebody that might fucking need it.
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