armydawg11b
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So my first clinical was this past Saturday, I showed up at 0745 because shift change was supposed to be 0800. Turns out that things had changed since my school set up clinical times. My preceptor wasn't coming on till 0900 so , I had time to kill. They allow me to "ride along" with another paramedic just to get one call in before I actually started my clinical. Here's the call
Tones drop. we load up. 42 y/o male, suicidal threats. This guy is I guess a frequent flyer with these guys, and is super trouble. He weighs around 280. Because of the nature of the call we stage. Once PD makes contact clears it safe we pull up. The medic tells me to grab the jump bag and follow him. As soon as he enters the room the PT gets loud as hell. As I turn to follow him into the tiny motel room that is at known drug motel I see about 13 Rx bottles strewn everywhere inside and outside the room. Since it's a tiny room the Pt is sitting on the bed , the medic directly over him, me in the doorway to the room, and the PD officer and Local fire standing outside the door. Right beside the Pt on the night stand was a freaking 10 in steak knife. Probably within a foot of his right hand. I was able to set the huge jump bag on the knife slide it backwards and take the knife away w/o the psycho seeing. I stepped toward the door and asked the guys behind me to put it somewhere. At that time the cop said "WTF" except he didn't use the abbreviation. The rest of the call went downhill with this guy. Even if he wouldn't have got a hand on it just from a scuffle someone probably would have fallen on this thing. These rooms are literally 10 by 8. Moral is, never put scene safety in someone else's hands.
Tones drop. we load up. 42 y/o male, suicidal threats. This guy is I guess a frequent flyer with these guys, and is super trouble. He weighs around 280. Because of the nature of the call we stage. Once PD makes contact clears it safe we pull up. The medic tells me to grab the jump bag and follow him. As soon as he enters the room the PT gets loud as hell. As I turn to follow him into the tiny motel room that is at known drug motel I see about 13 Rx bottles strewn everywhere inside and outside the room. Since it's a tiny room the Pt is sitting on the bed , the medic directly over him, me in the doorway to the room, and the PD officer and Local fire standing outside the door. Right beside the Pt on the night stand was a freaking 10 in steak knife. Probably within a foot of his right hand. I was able to set the huge jump bag on the knife slide it backwards and take the knife away w/o the psycho seeing. I stepped toward the door and asked the guys behind me to put it somewhere. At that time the cop said "WTF" except he didn't use the abbreviation. The rest of the call went downhill with this guy. Even if he wouldn't have got a hand on it just from a scuffle someone probably would have fallen on this thing. These rooms are literally 10 by 8. Moral is, never put scene safety in someone else's hands.