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14 July 2010

O/t over the Iron Cove Bridge.

This station sits on the border of three different areas and crews can get dispatched to many different locations and we felt that we were last night.

22F - From a small hospital to a larger one for assessment of abdo pain and persistent haemorrhaging post a TOP.

29M - Watching the latest Predator movie and suffered an anxiety attack (maybe too much blood and gore), he recognised it and employed his own techniques and it resolved however his friends panicked and we got called. Left him alone after a quick check up.

53M - Social issues, Police called us. After I checked him out they took him home which is all he wanted.

18M - OD, IP and called a friend and said he wanted to die! Well of course the Police and us turned up and having stated similar to us he lost any option of staying at home and had to accompany us to hospital.

38F - Claimed she was having an asthma attack in multiple long and abusive sentences. She hadn't called us and continued to abuse me so we left. I'm not getting thumped again for a while anyway.

13F - Transfer from a different small hospital to the same larger one for treatment of pneumonia and an abscess on the lung.

63M - 100% blind, having a shower and slipped over smashing a hole in the shower screen safety glass. I guessed there was a good 400mls of blood in the bathroom but his main concern was his very painful right hip that he couldn't move (?NOF). Had to call on some extra hands to get him out of the bathroom and the only wound I found was a 3cm lac on his head!
They do bleed like stuck pig those head lacs.

84F - Pressed her vita call button and her son who lives across the road came over and called us. Dysphasic with left sided deficit. CVA by the looks of it but she was in hospital within an hour by the quick actions of her family and a FAST diagnosis by us.

30F - Rolled her car in an MVA, just onto it's drivers side, self extricated and refused transport.
45M - Same accident, unrestrained driver it appears he hit the sun visor, a beautiful crescent shaped laceration of his scalp about 8cm or 3 inch in length. My partner had to catch an international flight and it was knock off time and we were 100m from station.
Thanks very much to the day shift that took over our pt for us.

656 jobs/88 days = 7.46 average.

See you at the Big One and you be careful out there.

Taz

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