Worst Call you've ever gotten ?

[FF2EMT]

MVA subject ejected not wearing seatbelt striking head off tree decapitating him... was not a pretty sight

[Tyler Bruns]

Originally Posted by mycrofft

..Welcome..

Thank you.

What part of central california are you from?

[firetender]

Originally Posted by atropine

Look tommy bahama who said it had to be an emergency?, I just put those in my worst call category thats all.

Do these women call you often?

[WTEngel]

4 month old post arrest

52 fractures in various stages of healing

Human bite marks on torso and limbs

Ring finger on left hand nearly bitten off

Parents claim they have no idea what happened...

[citizensoldierny]

Originally Posted by WTEngel

4 month old post arrest

52 fractures in various stages of healing

Human bite marks on torso and limbs

Ring finger on left hand nearly bitten off

Parents claim they have no idea what happened...

I hope the parents fell down some stairs and bumped into some doorways and no police or jailers have any idea what happened.

[nomofica]

Working security at a large, 3-day country music festival, we experienced a gust of wind that was 10 times stronger than it was sudden (which literally hit in seconds of me seeing the actual wall of sand blowing towards us from over 100 yards away).

The banners on the main stage acted as sails and the entire stage went down as it was anchored in such a way that it allowed the front of the stage to lift but the rear of the stage stayed stationary.

The horn speakers that were hung from the rigging above the stage collapsed and landed on the "VIP" bleachers that were on the stage, landing on a single mother of two boys; crushed her completely.

Story here.

The image of her entire body crushed by a 2x7 rack of horns (which weigh about 40 lbs each... you do the math...) is burned in my head forever. Definitely showed my true EMS colours that day; stepped up and did beyond my job description for that event (I was security and I could have very well just left - I was compelled otherwise).


Another bad one: the driver of a semi trailer had pulled over on the side of the highway for the night, hazard lights, orange rotating beacons and all. Couple hours later, a drowsy middle-aged man traveling down the same highway in the far closes his eyes and drifts onto the shoulder of the highway. Drowsy driver slams into the back of the semi trailer, ripping everything at the clavical level off - the top of the car, and his head. Ended up finding his head on the floor in the back of the car.

[Trauma's Mistress]

I don't really like talking about my worst call with people who weren't there... it was just a big clusterf***.. but i'll talk about it here. We're all sitting in the station watching a movie, most of us not even in uniform, meanwhile a city bus driver is pounding on the office door for help w/ a woman having a Sz on the bus. we get paged "somebody go out and check on this bus thing..." all 7 of us make a mass exodus to the bus. EMT#1 and i board the bus, find a large, but young woman lying in the middle of the floor. not breathing, call out to EMT#2 that she's *** not breathing,*** need O2. ***EMT#2 comes back with a nasal cannula.*** EMT#1 can't get a radial pulse or carotid pulse. at this time EMTs#3 & #4 show up with the canvas stretcher and help us move her on to it. We move her into the ambulance, hook her up to the pulse oximeter. it shows her around SpO2 60%ish w/ an inconsistent pulse reading as it bounces between 20-90. we are unsure if she has a pulse or not. perhaps due to her excess fat we just can't find the carotid pulse. EMT#1 checks for a pulse again, EMT#5 starts the ambulance, and then just leaves to stand in front of the building. EMT#4 jumps in the driver seat and tells us that we're going. EMT#6(is a completely incompetent whacker) is sitting at the head of the Pt, where i need to be to BVM her. EMT#6 then moves into the stepwell to watch, he is useless, i literally kick him out of the side door, and lock him out. EMT#7 didn't do anything but tell us what to do after we've begun doing it. Sepervisor#1 is yelling at EMT#5 because 3 of our 7 EMTs just left in that ambulance. en route, EMT#1 has started CPR, I'm on the BVM. EMT#4 got confused and missed the exit, reroutes to the next hospital, no distance difference really, but the code was called to Hosp#1. (all 7 EMTs and 1 supervisor totally forgot about the AED, which is locked up and the key is on the drivers key) We roll up to Hosp#2. the nurse who meets us wants to know if this is real. we look at eachother very confused, I inform the nurse that 'no... it's not real, we're pretending to perform CPR on a Pt who is pretending to be dead because we thought it would be funny.YES, fatass, this is real!". nurse sends us to resus room. they take over from there. time to fill out the paperwork. go through the Pt's purse to find an ID. i find it, along with a picture of 2 young children and a stack of GED prep books. the PT turns out to be a 27 y/o w/ 2 kids, working on a GED to try to get ahead in life. as i come to this conclusion they call it.[/QUOTE]

OK heres what I wanna know ....

what friken pretend emt,should never touch a patient ever again,i fail at life - complete moron goes and grabs a nasal cannula for a patient THAT ISNT BREATHING !?!

In the story you said EMT #1 was the one who said- pt not breathing. and then it said EMT #2 goes and gets a nasal canaula.

I am really hoping thats a typo and it was supposed to be the idiot useless Emt #6 in your story, because what do we get when a patient ISNT BREATHING ... Oh to get a nasal cannula ...

Seriously?!? lol


also ...

"yea fat ass this is real" I laughed my ass off and I woke my dog up lol

[Corky]

Sigh. actually had a worst call ever happen to me within the last couple weeks.

G5 P3 AB2 20wk IUP slip and fall at home day prior landing on abdomen. Get dispatched to a possible miscarriage at said residence. Arrive on scene to find developing fetus with cord attached in the gals lap, and she is mildly upset (tweeker). Open towel to examine, only to find that during the discharge of the fetus her cervix clamped as the head was passing. So there lies a headless formed fetus with a hole on the neck where the head used to be. Thankfully the VFD FR on scene were mostly oblivious to what was going on. Off for a D&C she went

Cant get much worse then this, so i am going to have to say the rest of my career is going to get much easier.

[kittaypie]

Originally Posted by Corky

Sigh. actually had a worst call ever happen to me within the last couple weeks.

G5 P3 AB2 20wk IUP slip and fall at home day prior landing on abdomen. Get dispatched to a possible miscarriage at said residence. Arrive on scene to find developing fetus with cord attached in the gals lap, and she is mildly upset (tweeker). Open towel to examine, only to find that during the discharge of the fetus her cervix clamped as the head was passing. So there lies a headless formed fetus with a hole on the neck where the head used to be. Thankfully the VFD FR on scene were mostly oblivious to what was going on. Off for a D&C she went

Cant get much worse then this, so i am going to have to say the rest of my career is going to get much easier.

holy $%#@!!!!!! that's beyond horrifying.

[QSMITH89]

WOW, that is just horrifying.