Day Two.

76M - Booked transport to normal dialysis.

50F - OD, antidepressants last night and has had a change of heart this morning, She'll have to see if the effects of the medication allows for that change.

30M - Motor Bike rider swerved to miss a car and dropped the bike at 40kmh (25mph). Lots of road rash some quite good, but he had an open face helmet on (think you look cool?) and now he has teeth missing!

3M - Seizure, he appeared post ictal. No Hx of similar. Was febrile so lets hope that's the cause.

UTL - should mean the same no matter which service your in Unable To Locate.

37M - Intoxicated, his safety or he was going to end up a car hood ornament!

66M - Hypertension, the Dr at the medical centre was so concerned that he just left and went to lunch without writing any letter or recording any obs.

13/12F - Suspect closed head injury, fell ?2m or 6f onto a wood floor. Cried at first but became more and more listless. Eyes pearl all the way but a mighty powerful vomit just before putting her onto the Resus bed. Going to follow this one up.

47M - Chest pain. Went to a medical centre today, they took bloods, did a four lead ECG and told him it was gastric reflux. His friend called us though. Pt not SOB, not Diaphoretic, not crushing central pain more sharp, constant with sharp spikes in pain with exertion and slight numbness in his left arm. Look if he had said to us I don't want to go, we would have accepted that, but for what ever reason we did transport and treated it as cardiac in cause and that's what the twelve lead showed an infarct. Didn't get any details they kind of rushed him off but our treatment was spot on and so was the instinct of the pts friend.

We do stick it to the ??friend who calls us out to the pissed or man cold or other such 'stupid' job but if you stop and think about it that's our job to serve the public. We don't want smart pts because they ask lots of questions about your qualification and treatment.

So be kind to the friend, sometime they get it right.

27M - cut, no knicked, no scratched finger with a knife, as we arrived the job got cancelled.

41F - Enjoying a wine in the VIP lounge at the airport and dropped the glass and snatched at it as it shattered resulting in two good finger lacs.

So as you can see a very busy day and all done without my Padawan.

He was sent off to be trained on the near to be rolled out Lifpak defibs and we just never got teamed up so I had the pleasure of working with a Peer and fellow station officer.

The comment was made during the shift about it's nice to work with a qualified officer, you don't have to think for them as well. While I have said I have had some very good Padawans and I meant it, as the senior officer and their trainer you still have to consider every move they make because in the end it's your arse on the line.

Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz