MagicTyler
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Yesterday I had my first mistake as a medic. I decided that we should run the backup unit for the day because it never gets used. My partner and I load up the equipment. We get a call to a rual clinic for a patient having a seizure and hypotensive. Get on scene pt is 40 yo F, gcs of 3, vag bleed, still szing (for last 30 min), and pressures in the 80s systolic. I get benzos onboard and get her on a backboard (she had a pretty hard headstrike per clinic staff when she started szing). After benzos she improves to a GCS of 9, we load her up, and I realize... I never put the monitor on the rig. I have an unresponsive, hypotensive, postical pt and no way to monitor spo2 or ecg, and have to do manual blood pressures. Oh yeah and at least a 45 minute transport time to the closest hospital... I felt pretty stupid.
What have you guys ever forgotten on a call?
What have you guys ever forgotten on a call?