Eventful shift - ready for beer

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Over the course of my 12 hour shift last night I managed to administer morphine, Zofran, Valium and Cardizem. I also managed to throw in bilateral chest decompressions in a rapidly decompensating multiple GSW victim.

I'm a new paramedic and had never given Cardizem before, nor had I ever decompressed a chest. To my delight and great relief, both interventions worked as intended. It was a night of firsts!

I have a feeling that gnarly 300-lbs-and-up-three-flights-of-stairs megacode is coming any day now, but for now I'm ready for a cold one and my one little night off tonight.

Cheers! :beerchug:
 
Indeed I did, both times.
 
Good for you, man!
 
You Bet!

A job well done! what was the end result of the patient's outcome?
 
I feel for you. As a new medic, I have been quite the crap magnet, myself. Doesn't it feel great though, to be able to do what you have been taught and see it work? Congrats on getting through a tough shift!
 
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isn't it time for the humorless to chime in with the danger of ingesting alcohol as a method of destressing and the importance of proper self care?
 
Nah...

:)
 
BossyCow said:
isn't it time for the humorless to chime in with the danger of ingesting alcohol as a method of destressing and the importance of proper self care?
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SHHHHHHH, you'll call them out!
 
BossyCow said:
isn't it time for the humorless to chime in with the danger of ingesting alcohol as a method of destressing and the importance of proper self care?
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Don't forget the lack of professionalism.
 
BossyCow said:
isn't it time for the humorless to chime in with the danger of ingesting alcohol as a method of destressing and the importance of proper self care?
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its not likley you'll hear that nonsense from me.....
 
Sounds like a job well done.

Cheers!!
 
Sorry for the late reply to this thread, but tonight is only the third night off I've had all year! LOL.

The GSW patient is recovering in the hospital, cooking up plenty of false stories and aliases for PD. His bad night was apparantly as a result of a drug transaction gone bad. The detective assigned to his case is a friend of mine and has more than once expressed his dismay that my medical interventions kept this turkey around long enough to give him stress headaches.

Two days later I had another GSW patient that didn't fare as well. He was shot X 4 at close range by an AK-47. GCS of 15 with me but V/S started crapping out en route to the ER. He coded about 30 minutes after I got him to the trauma center and was pronounced shortly after. Two of the shots hit his heart and right kidney. I had a really green army medic third riding with me for the weekend and he certainly got an eyeful.
 
You need a conversation with your Buds; here you go... :beerchug::beerchug:
 
You need to loan me your crap magnet for a while. In my last 36 hours of rides the only call we've had is to a patient that fell half way out of his wheel chair. How in the heck do you fall half way out of a wheel chair. FD had him back in by the time we got there.
 
marineman said:
You need to loan me your crap magnet for a while.
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Trust me, I would be more than happy to send it your way. I am all for a challenging run from time to time, but dang! There really does come a point where enough is enough and it would be nice to do a nice simple run that you can take at face value for what it is. What would be even better would be to get all of my runs during daylight hours and get to sleep all night. I don't remember the last time that happened, but I think it was before I got my medic and was still working as a basic.
 
Total crap magnet, yes. I knew it would be this way, though, so I've tried to be ready for it. My protocol book is never far for light reading here and there.

And I haven't even mentioned the multiple agonal heroin OD's or the agonal CVA or the totally wacky upper respiratory obstruction SOB call! That last one was worthy of a post in the Scenerios section. It was an eventful weekend.

BTW, thanks for the nice words, everybody. We can all share a metaphorical cold one together (adult beverage or otherwise).
 
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