All in a day's work, huh?
Seems like Otis was the noisiest person on the unit.
Great description of your MI work. I've always wondered how that happens.
Bradycardia really sucks...sounds like that guy kept his sense of humor for a while, anyway.
"skinned banshee with a pitchfork up its arse"
Great story, that line cracked me up!
I'm so glad you're back! I loooove reading your stories! I'm an old L&D nurse (well, maybe not that old 
. Nothing more fun than swaping stories. Was sitting with some colleagues today who were talking about the trauma center in LA and the "stop and push out the door" method of taking a person to the ER with lead induced trauma. Whoa! Now that you are writing again, your site is at the top of my recommendations.
At least your patient was civil enough to come in early so you could get off shift at normal time!
We try to call report in 12 minutes out.
Sometimes we get it done, sometimes we don't. From altitude we can hear other calls on "Mercy" from 50 miles away and have to wait for them to complete their call before giving ours. Other times the receiving hospital has gotten tired of the "noise" on the radio and has simply turned the volume down. We have to ask our dispatchers to give them a land-line and ask to turn the volume back up.
Thanks for the insight into what happens while we are zipping the patient to you, and thanks for keeping that patient from meeting Jim
Fixx.
Hey! Welcome back! We were all worried about you. Hope that things are going well.
(Why medics choose to wait until they are only five minutes away to tell us they are enroute with a super-sick patient is a perpetual mystery to us.)
We do this for a couple of reasons...
1) Because we are too freaking busy taking vitals, establishing a baseline, attempting IV access, etc in the back of a moving truck, and that takes time. Five minutes out is often the soonest we have a chance to call.
2) Because 95% of the time, when we do have an opportunity to call earlier, the Unit Secretary/ Charge Nurse/ whoever answers the phone gives us the audible eye-roll and sigh-of-exasperation when we tell them that we will not be arriving for another 10 or 15 minutes.
Good to see you back!
Good to see you back posting again. Continue!
Hey, NW;
I hope you don't mind my reposting your comment here. If you do, pardon my faux pas.
FWIW, medics in my municipality have a direct line to the MDs. It has a unique ringtone, and the MDs HAVE to answer it. If they don't the Charge RN MUST answer it and relay the report to an MD pronto.
WOW! That must be nice. Of course, Indy isn't nearly Seattle. I know; I lived in Seattle, Lynnwood/Edmonds, and Carnation. It's a whole different world out there, bro.
Sure, I should have said something to qualify that statement rather than to paint all EMS services with a broad brush. Sorry about that. But certain EMS units in my area are notorious for giving short notice- some even arrive unannounced. But I see your point, and I hope you accept my apology.
Apology?! None needed. Princess Terry is an ER Charge, and I know (firsthand and second-hand) what stubborn boneheaded asses we can be.
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6 months no update.
This blog is dead.
6 months still no update
Me thinks William is no longer with us. Perhaps he was captured by a dozen maurading swine to assist in the spread of thier flu.
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