I'm currently in a paid EMT-B training program, and I did a ride along today with an EMT-B and a Paramedic. although I have virtually no experience, my jaw was on the floor after I watched this unfold.
we get dispatched to a "elderly male with chest pains and shortness of breath." we get on scene, and the guy is in a chair, slumped over, unresponsive, and not looking so good. we hook him up to the monitor, and its clearly obvious thats we now have a full cardiac arrest on our hands. We shock him and start CPR, and in the middle of all this, we gather enough information for figure out that we are to take him to the local Veterans Affairs Hospital. Just so happens that the VA is LITERALLY less than 2 minutes away. we decide to "load and go." EMT-B drves, medic is in the back doing chest compressions and shocked him a second time, and i'm bagging. we get to the VA and as we are unloading, a nurse walks outside and demands to know whats going on. we give her the long and short of it, and she is like "well why didn't you call ahead? we had no idea you were brining this here, we heard the sirens from inside" so we explain to her that we were literally around the corner, and were doing what we needed to do to bring this guy back, sow e kinda didnt have time to call, and if we did by the time we got through and explained the situation, we would have been there anyway. Oh, and mind you we are now standing outside the ER doors, because this nurse won't let us in.
So they finally let us in, and we get the guy on a bed, and we are STILL doing chest compressions and bagging. WE are working the guy in the ER by ourselves before the nurse comes back and tries to get information on him, and says they cant look at him until they know his info. the nurse tells us that they will take over and we are relieved.
well, we basically watched the guy die, because the nurse made us stop resuscitating the guy, and no doctor or even another nurse came to look at the guy. the nurse then starts *****ing US out because she said we didnt start a line on him and didnt call ahead so they couldnt prepare. there was no one else in the ER, and we never saw anyone except for this nurse in the whole ED. so basically this guy died because they were lazy....
ok im done /rant
we get dispatched to a "elderly male with chest pains and shortness of breath." we get on scene, and the guy is in a chair, slumped over, unresponsive, and not looking so good. we hook him up to the monitor, and its clearly obvious thats we now have a full cardiac arrest on our hands. We shock him and start CPR, and in the middle of all this, we gather enough information for figure out that we are to take him to the local Veterans Affairs Hospital. Just so happens that the VA is LITERALLY less than 2 minutes away. we decide to "load and go." EMT-B drves, medic is in the back doing chest compressions and shocked him a second time, and i'm bagging. we get to the VA and as we are unloading, a nurse walks outside and demands to know whats going on. we give her the long and short of it, and she is like "well why didn't you call ahead? we had no idea you were brining this here, we heard the sirens from inside" so we explain to her that we were literally around the corner, and were doing what we needed to do to bring this guy back, sow e kinda didnt have time to call, and if we did by the time we got through and explained the situation, we would have been there anyway. Oh, and mind you we are now standing outside the ER doors, because this nurse won't let us in.
So they finally let us in, and we get the guy on a bed, and we are STILL doing chest compressions and bagging. WE are working the guy in the ER by ourselves before the nurse comes back and tries to get information on him, and says they cant look at him until they know his info. the nurse tells us that they will take over and we are relieved.
well, we basically watched the guy die, because the nurse made us stop resuscitating the guy, and no doctor or even another nurse came to look at the guy. the nurse then starts *****ing US out because she said we didnt start a line on him and didnt call ahead so they couldnt prepare. there was no one else in the ER, and we never saw anyone except for this nurse in the whole ED. so basically this guy died because they were lazy....
ok im done /rant