the 100% directionless thread

[Anjel]

Transported a lady to the regional burn center. She had partial and full thickness burns to her ear and face.. The majority of her hair was gone as well.

Here's the kicker... It happened 7 days ago! She says she went to blow out candles and caught her hair on fire. Didn't think it was that bad.

She was very altered and lethargic. Could only stay awake a few minutes at a time. Husband said he just have her all of her psych meds, and that he just noticed the burns today or he would of took her sooner.

I call BS.

 

[Chewy20]

So this was a first, we were sitting in EMS lounge at the hospital. Lady starts banging on the door. Guy coded as she pulled into ambulance bay in the passenger seat. Pull him out and I do 150 compressions, and he wakes up/moaning and starts breathing. Pt is in v-fib so medic shocks him once to sinus brady. Stabilized and brought into ER.

 

[NomadicMedic]

CPR and Electricity, holding the reaper at bay!

Nice job.

 

[chaz90]

So this was a first, we were sitting in EMS lounge at the hospital. Lady starts banging on the door. Guy coded as she pulled into ambulance bay in the passenger seat. Pull him out and I do 150 compressions, and he wakes up/moaning and starts breathing. Pt is in v-fib so medic shocks him once to sinus brady. Stabilized and brought into ER.

Cool!

Moaning/responsive in VF? I guess you hear something new every day...Maybe your compressions immediately post arrest got his cerebral perfusion up enough to try to respond. Awesome work and easy transport!

 

[PotatoMedic]

CPR and Electricity, holding the reaper at bay!

Nice job.

Did you, of all people, just say "holding the reaper at bay!" ? I think I need to buy you a fighting the reaper shirt.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I did.

I tried to use <Tor Eckman> tags, but they don't work in the forum.

(I'll take this shirt in xl please.)

 

[DesertMedic66]

EMS, doing the same thing as doctors in the parking lot of the hospital..

 

[Chewy20]

CPR and Electricity, holding the reaper at bay!

Nice job.

If you have ever watched "The Big Bang Theory" when Sheldon knocks on the door multiple times and says "Penny", well as this lady was knocking I was saying "Penny". Didn't think much of it

Cool!

Moaning/responsive in VF? I guess you hear something new every day...Maybe your compressions immediately post arrest got his cerebral perfusion up enough to try to respond. Awesome work and easy transport!

Yeah the look on my partners face was pretty funny when he saw vfib.

 

[STXmedic]

Cool!

Moaning/responsive in VF? I guess you hear something new every day...Maybe your compressions immediately post arrest got his cerebral perfusion up enough to try to respond.

I've heard of this with the Lucas (early application upon VF arrest), including arm movement with localization. Would be strange to see I think.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I've heard of this with the Lucas (early application upon VF arrest), including arm movement with localization. Would be strange to see I think.

I was a basic on an arrest, guy was in refractory VF. He would open his eyes and attempt to reach up and push away the BVM during CPR. Compressions would stop, he would become completely unresponsive. Shocked him continuously until arrival at the ED. He had a wire threaded, shocked back into SR. He didn't remember anything about the event or the hour or two prior to his arrest.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Isn't there a video of a dispatcher going into cardiac arrest at a HEMS company overseas? I believe I remember seeing him moving his arms and trying to push the medics away while they were doing compressions.

 

[terrible one]

 

[cruiseforever]

Heard an amazing tape recording at work from a crew that went on a infant arrest. When the father called 911, he was transferred to our dispatch for prearrival instructions. He was told to start CPR and the infant would start to cry. When he stopped the infant went silent. Father started CPR again and the baby started to cry again. Made the hair standup on your neck to hear it.

The crew found the pt. to be in v-fib and shocked the infant once and got a pulse back. Pt. was transport to Children's hospital and was found to have a tumor in a ventricle. Family stopped and visited the dispatcher a month later.

 

[terrible one]

Would've been real boss of that precordial thump worked.

 

[Jim37F]

While out getting lunch after a drill, one of our Truck companies got flagged down by a bus driver for a person not breathing at the bus stop....we were on radio and close enough that we arrived on scene a minute after they called in the still alarm....in the meantime they found the patient unresponsive so they opened up his shirt to place the difib pads, and we walked up just as the patient then wakes up with a start, pulls off the pads and won't let us so much as take his pulse, much less let us transport him to the hospital one block away (that also happens to be a STEMI Receiving Center)....although the medic unit did an AMA, he agreed to go to his hospital which was to far out of our operational area for us to transport to, but his daughter was on her way to pick him up.. so the medics decided to wait until she showed up (medics held on to us as well just in case he passed out again).........but after about 20 min of sitting around on scene and some back and forth phone conversation with the daughter, we finally convinced the patient to come with us to the hospital 1 minute away as per our original plan lol

 

[RocketMedic]

"Dude, your tibia isn't supposed to be outside your leg."

 

[redundantbassist]

So, after winning our department ems week raffle, I found myself in possession in some kind of tactical-whacker-ricky rescue drop leg thing. So far, it has made an awesome toiletry bag for overnight shifts.

 

[PotatoMedic]

Hell yeah!!! Tactical Toiletries! I think I need to copyright that.

 

[redundantbassist]

Hell yeah!!! Tactical Toiletries! I think I need to copyright that.

We're just lucky that it didn't fall into the hands of a new emt who would actally wear it on calls.

 

[PotatoMedic]

We're just lucky that it didn't fall into the hands of a new emt who would actally wear it on calls.

Hey! You never know when you need to floss.