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Since I've started working in EMS, I always get a chill down my spine when I think that people are calling me and my partners for medical emergencies, we are 911. It's an amazing feeling to respond to an emergency and comfort and treat patients, providing a service that they sometimes desperately need.
But how do you really define an emergency, as my definition and my patients often differ. It's not like we have long talks, or any talks, about this matter, but sometimes when you're treating someone for a minor condition, one that really doesn't require immediately medical attention, how do you cope with the idea that you coded, lights and sirens, through traffic, risking your life and the lives of others, all for this minor medical emergency?
Whether it be having two units, BLS and ALS being dispatched for a jammed finger, when both you and the patient know it's just a jammed finger, or any of the other endless non-emegency calls we respond to, what's your personal reaction?
So what's your personal reaction?
Who is to fault? The pt? Dispatch?
But how do you really define an emergency, as my definition and my patients often differ. It's not like we have long talks, or any talks, about this matter, but sometimes when you're treating someone for a minor condition, one that really doesn't require immediately medical attention, how do you cope with the idea that you coded, lights and sirens, through traffic, risking your life and the lives of others, all for this minor medical emergency?
Whether it be having two units, BLS and ALS being dispatched for a jammed finger, when both you and the patient know it's just a jammed finger, or any of the other endless non-emegency calls we respond to, what's your personal reaction?
So what's your personal reaction?
Who is to fault? The pt? Dispatch?