We're lucky if we get an age and sex with our dispatches!!! It's an address and whatever dispatch chooses from the drop down menu(mvc, chest pain, seizure, traumatic injury, etc) Seriously...it's pathetic.
Wow really? We generally wont get age or sex unless it's pertinent. Usually it'll be "Priority 2 for a Traffic Accident, single vehicle into a pole at blah blah blah blah, map page blah, coordinates blah, *rinse and repeat*"
Something like the OP's call would be "Priority 3 (or 2 or 1 if they say it's "severe uncontrollable bleeding") for a traumatic injury, laceration to the finger at blah blah blah, map page blah, coordinates blah, *rinse and repeat*"
I've learned to pay very little attention to what the dispatch is and just start from the top rather than trying to anticipate something.
Like hogwiley said, lots of times critical sounding calls turn out to be bogus or the priority 3 for a sick person is grandma in a 3AVB at 20 with no blood pressure who's altered and making the "o" face.
Prime example, I had a p3 hemorrhage turn into a working cardiac arrest.
Me: "what's going on tonight"
Security: "I haven't been to the room yet, sounds like a domestic"
Me: "Right on, thanks man"
AED: "Stand clear, analyzing, no shock advised, continue CPR"
Me and my partner: :wacko: :unsure: "dispatch, can you tell fire we're workin' and to grab our suction...CPR in progress"
