Interesting but only just.

It wasn't a boring night but neither was it overly stimulating.

Called to a F shoplifter who may have been drug effected and violent. The Police called us off as we arrived.

?35M - Post Ictal, agitated, covered in faeces???. Took a swing at my partner, we know that it's not personal just hypoxic brain. Luckily he over balanced himself so we had him pinned to the road in busy Chinatown waiting for the Police backup that we needed to release and get onto the stretcher, where he fitted again. Some drugs quickly in the open street scape and a little more en route. The thing is the shit wasn't his it was just on the outside of his clothes and on his hands??

The National Heart Foundation have a campaign about recognising the signs of a Heart Attack.

It lists possible signs and symptoms of an AMI,,, problem is that by themselves they are also indicators for many other non cardiac conditions. We are expecting an increase of ' I'm worried about my heart' call-outs. Here's my first one.

62F - Hx of Pulmonary disease, SOB, Anxiety, Chronic Pain who openly stated a week of flu like symptoms and had received today an email from Nat Heart about the campaign and got worried.

Just was with H1N1 the number of calls are going to shoot up. But we won't know until we check everyone of them out.

46F - Air Ambulance to a Hotel for a medical appointment tomorrow.

32M - Classic Renal Colic, Lots of opiate to control the pain and up to see a Dr.

62M - Living rough. The general public with mobile phones decided that he needed to be taken by an EMERGENCY ambulance off the streets.

790 jobs/108 shifts = 7.32 average.


See you at the big One.

Taz