My partner and I were driving back to the base after a fairly slow day. We were late for shift and stuck in traffic driving back to base. Probably about a mile or two away from the base, the fire radio starts blaring for the "unknown medical" about two blocks from our position, dispatching, in due course, a paramedic unit from the base. This didn't concern us, as it would take the medic maybe 1 minute to arrive.
About 5 seconds later, the call upgraded to a possible shooting. My partner called dispatch and told them we were right on top of the call and started responding. I mapped it quickly and we arrived about 15 seconds later, observing 2 police vehicles parked on either side of the street. I saw a body in the street immediately to the right of the ambulance surrounded by people. They yelled to pull up, and that there was a police officer shot.
I jumped out with the bags and started helping apply pressure to stop the bleeding. Fire and the medic arrived shortly after, and the five of us dead lifted him onto the stretcher, got him on O2 and loaded him in about 30 seconds. My partner went to work on the cop with the medics, when I heard a FF yell for an AED. He was doing compressions on someone in their early 20s with 3 entry wounds to the clavicle and the sternal area.
He had stopped breathing and another FF was ventilating. I applied the AED and got two "no-shocks". The FF had started him on backboard, so we strapped him in quickly. By then the second local medic had arrived, so we packaged him and put him in the truck and drove him about 3 blocks to the local hospital (the other ALS took the cop to another larger hospital that was somewhat further away because he was more stable).
We got him in the trauma room, I was doing compressions while the team worked. They had to start IO drills IVs because of the poor quality of his veins, PTX, they had to needle decompress him. He was declared about 10 minutes later.
Been thinking about it, what I could of done better etc. or if I could have done anything at all that would have changed the outcome. It was my first actual trauma as an EMT, so I just thought I would sort of debrief it in my own head here.
Thanks for listening!
About 5 seconds later, the call upgraded to a possible shooting. My partner called dispatch and told them we were right on top of the call and started responding. I mapped it quickly and we arrived about 15 seconds later, observing 2 police vehicles parked on either side of the street. I saw a body in the street immediately to the right of the ambulance surrounded by people. They yelled to pull up, and that there was a police officer shot.
I jumped out with the bags and started helping apply pressure to stop the bleeding. Fire and the medic arrived shortly after, and the five of us dead lifted him onto the stretcher, got him on O2 and loaded him in about 30 seconds. My partner went to work on the cop with the medics, when I heard a FF yell for an AED. He was doing compressions on someone in their early 20s with 3 entry wounds to the clavicle and the sternal area.
He had stopped breathing and another FF was ventilating. I applied the AED and got two "no-shocks". The FF had started him on backboard, so we strapped him in quickly. By then the second local medic had arrived, so we packaged him and put him in the truck and drove him about 3 blocks to the local hospital (the other ALS took the cop to another larger hospital that was somewhat further away because he was more stable).
We got him in the trauma room, I was doing compressions while the team worked. They had to start IO drills IVs because of the poor quality of his veins, PTX, they had to needle decompress him. He was declared about 10 minutes later.
Been thinking about it, what I could of done better etc. or if I could have done anything at all that would have changed the outcome. It was my first actual trauma as an EMT, so I just thought I would sort of debrief it in my own head here.
Thanks for listening!
