Recent content by AustinSofa

Thank all of y'all for the support, and your opinions on whether it should have been worked. Her funeral was Saturday and that's tr reason it's been so long I've commented back.

I ran the call as a Volunteer Firefighter. I haven't been in EMS very long, but this was one of the worst things I've saw.

That's why I worked it. She was a friend of mine, a trainer on my football team and she ran Track with me. If it was a stranger, I wouldn't have worked it. She had a shockable rhythm and was breathing. I understand that most protocols would have been to call it, but I still tried because she was...

We can't cric on the ground. By the time the ambulances arrived she was already in asystole.

Would anyone have done anything different given the circumstances?

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It is a call I ran. I'm just curious to see if anyone would have done anything different.

Let me throw something else into the mix, say it was a friend of yours, what would you personally do?

To all my freinds in EMS, what do your protocols say about working a trauma code? What do you personally do? Would you have worked this or called it as DOS. Patient; 17 year old female MOI; one car MVA, vs semi Injuries; massive facial trauma ( face was unrecognizable), massive chest and...