Second Night.

Slow start, two hours on station before the first job but it was worth it.

49M - Open head injury post ?fall on the deck of a boat. On arrival pt sitting with friend on a fence having a cigarette, it's dark so we ask him to butt out and step inside the light. Denied LOC, Neck pain, arterial spray that we didn't see until he got in the back of the vehicle and it just went everywhere, on the roof, all over the dicky seat bulkhead behind the driver's seat, down into the O2 bottle storage compartment, on/in and under the dicky seat itself, even five feet away on the treatment seat.

Now most of us use the Mercedes Benz Sprinter as a base for our ambulance's and there really isn't that much change that can be made to the layout.
For those of you from overseas this is a photo from the back door looking in, the seat on the right is the dicky seat and the treatment seat is the one on the left.

Pressure dressing, spinal precautions because of intoxication, upper body elevation, cannulation, Maxalon and fluids with a 'Bat call' to alert the receiving hospital and we're off.

41M - Homeless, had a fall nil injuries. Transport for social support.
25M - IP outside home address, woken up and went inside.
17M - IP, driving, destroyed the front end of his cousins Audi coupe in a collision.
44M - Homeless, c/o a rash all over his body, Uck. Transport for social support.
40F - Abdo pain, ? Drug seeking.

It took me and another officer forty minutes to de-contaminate the back of the vehicle after the first job, so an eventful night all in all.


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

Taz