Silverado94
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Hello, I am new here but i have been reading it for some time now so i thought i would share my stories. Also i am just starting my ride alongs only to be a driver until i get through the first responder course.
I am 17 and i am volunteering with a small town Ambulance crew we have to cover a rural area of about 1500 people average time from dispatch to arrival at hospital is about an hour as the nearest one is about 45 miles away. So here are my stories up to now.
My first ride along was uneventful it was a house fire and we automatically get dispatched along with the fire department and the the house owner only got minor burns so then we give them some water called their son and he came and took care of them and let them stay at his place and we called red cross for them then we headed back.
A week later we get dispatched to a retirement home pt is unresponsive and we only have 7 members including myself we were short staffed and i had to ride in back and assist the EMT-B in her evaluation half way to the hospital pt woke up only to freak out because the last thing she remembers is going to church and now she is in a Ambulance. We got her calmed down continued our evaluation and it turns out she had a low blood suger and fainted. Exciting to say the least because i wasn't prepared to ride and the back and it turns out it wasn't that bad.
Third call was later that night same day as the Retirement home call a 1 y/o bumped his head hard and we took him to the hospital just to make sure nothing happend because the parents said he wasn't acting like himself at all. But all was good belive it or not i learned more in those 3 ride alongs than i could have ever imagined. Thank you for reading this.
I am 17 and i am volunteering with a small town Ambulance crew we have to cover a rural area of about 1500 people average time from dispatch to arrival at hospital is about an hour as the nearest one is about 45 miles away. So here are my stories up to now.
My first ride along was uneventful it was a house fire and we automatically get dispatched along with the fire department and the the house owner only got minor burns so then we give them some water called their son and he came and took care of them and let them stay at his place and we called red cross for them then we headed back.
A week later we get dispatched to a retirement home pt is unresponsive and we only have 7 members including myself we were short staffed and i had to ride in back and assist the EMT-B in her evaluation half way to the hospital pt woke up only to freak out because the last thing she remembers is going to church and now she is in a Ambulance. We got her calmed down continued our evaluation and it turns out she had a low blood suger and fainted. Exciting to say the least because i wasn't prepared to ride and the back and it turns out it wasn't that bad.
Third call was later that night same day as the Retirement home call a 1 y/o bumped his head hard and we took him to the hospital just to make sure nothing happend because the parents said he wasn't acting like himself at all. But all was good belive it or not i learned more in those 3 ride alongs than i could have ever imagined. Thank you for reading this.
