"Do Your Ears Hang Low" which we, as in her and I and sometimes the FF helping us, SING while tieing someone up.
You know....
"Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro...can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow....Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier....Do...Your...Ears...Hang...Low?"
By the end of the second round normally will have even the most combative patient secured.
and
"You Get A Line, I'll Get A Pole" which we have been known to sing when preparing for intubation...
kind of like this..
Her (the Medic) starts... "You get a line...."
Me (EMT) follows.... "You get the pole"
Together.... "We'll go down to the fishing hole....honey...."
Last time we started that we were with a FF who has been there while we did this, and he sang along with the "honey..."
And for people that have never been there when we start the singing, it always catches them off guard...but then they laugh a little and sometimes sing with us.
Never been a "whacker" but via the iPod I prefer Wicked Tinkers....that would be some nice hard bagpipes and drums, a little digereedoo thrown in for measure. Occ. Irish fiddle as well. Nothing like it.
"Kickstart My Heart"- Motley Crue
"Spieluhr"- Rammstein (it's talking about burying a child alive by mistake
Lyrics:
Ein kleiner Mensch stirbt nur zum Schein
(A little person only pretends to die)
wollte ganz alleine sein
(it wanted to be completely alone)
das kleine Herz stand still für Stunden
(the small heart stood still for hours)
so hat man es für tot befunden
(so they decided/assumed that it was dead)
es wird verscharrt in nassem Sand
(and buried it unceremoniously (think "chunked 'im in a hole") in wet sand)
mit einer Spieluhr in der Hand
(with a music box in it's hand
Der erste Schnee das Grab bedeckt
(the first snow covered the grave)
hat ganz sanft das Kind geweckt
(and the child awoke softly)
in einer kalten Winternacht
(on a cold winter's night)
ist das kleine Herz erwacht
(the small heart is awakened)
"Stirb Nicht vor Mir" - Rammstein (quite literally "Don't die before I do"; if you listen to the lyrics, it's damn perfect for an autoerotic asphyxiation call)
"Fade to Black" - Metallica
"Ride the Lightning"- Metallica (the song for defib :laugh: )
"Coma"- Guns 'N Roses (just listen to it and you'll see why)