Code 3 and Code 3 (again)
OMG! I had a fantastic ride along today on the ambulance. Even better than this one. The day started off pretty slow. About midway thru it, we get a standard call w/a complaint of chest pain. We go 97 (onscene) to discover a 49yom w/a classic case of MI (heart attack). He responds well to treatment enroute to the hospital and we arrive, make the transfer w/no difficulty. As we turn to leave, the guy literally goes into full arrest on the ER bed. It was awesome! We got to help the ER crew work him up not once, twice, three times. OMG! What a learning experience. It is very very VERY rare for first responders to witness someone go into full arrest. Not to mention right in the hospital. We ususally see before and after scenarios.
But it gets even better. The hospital didn’t have a cath lab so we had to transfer him to another hospital. We stood around for about 20 minutes while the ER staff pumped him full of drugs and plugged all the extra machines in. With all the extra apparatus we had to have one of the ER nurses ride w/us to the 2nd hospital. At the 2nd hospital, I got to watch them prep the patient for surgery. The docs were cool and commented on what a great job we’d done.
It blew all my other calls away. So now, I’m back at the call center for my regular shift. Kind of anti-climatic but that’s the way it goes I guess.
How was your day?
Don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call Myocardial Infarction (heh heh, I said Infarction) as being fantastic. But hey, what do I know. And maybe you’ll get lucky and you’ll get a bank robbery gone wrong at the call center. 😉
Alas, my day at work was less fun, unless you count having your customer design screens for you ( and that’s your tax dollars at work!)
I don’t think I have ever heard anyone get so excited for someone having a heart attack. I know why you were excited so I can understand where your comming from here.
Hey, if your passionate about what you like to do or are working towards doing, more power to ya! I’d rather have a passionate person working to save my life than someone who has lost touch.
My day to day was not nearly as nice as yesterday’s, meeting up with Rob and another blogger, the Untraveled Travel Guy.
Yikes. I know it must have been awesome from your side of things. But hopefully he survived. No?
I ate too much pizza. lol
I hope all is well with the MI guy. I don’t think I could do that job because I’m such a Gladys Kravitz and would need to know the outcome of every person I dealt with.
I always thought that I would have to know what was the outcome of the medical emergencies we have on board.
Ironically, it doesn’t even cross my mind. Even odder when we have a medical emergency I become really calm and methodical.
Fantastic Moby! I love seeing someone so excited to learn and help people, in the medical profession! 🙂 I also enjoy hearing about your different calls.
Thank you for sharing this. You make a difference in people’s lives Moby; amd I admire and respect you for it!
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LOL. Ok I admit the way your wrote that – I can see people getting tiffed at it. I saw it as funny. I suspect had you known the dude having the attacks you’d look at it differently.