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06 October 2010

14 in 12 hrs!

Of course not all were transported or even found.

72M - Currently being treated with chemotherapy for leukaemia. Febrile and weak.
80F - Fall at home assistance required - Called Off.
A person unconscious on a train, arrives in five minutes - Called Off when someone woke them up.
46M - Motor scooter rider racing a truck off the lights and cuts in front. Clips the truck and gets stuck under the front wheel until the truck stops. De-glove of the leg with no vascular injury, fractured pelvis and abdominal haemorrhage. Stabilise, package, scoop and run. He needs surgery.
40M - Anxiety and sore legs requesting transport to hospital.
81F - Transport for palliative care - Called Off.
45M - Chest pain at a sports ground - Called Off.
72M - Haematuria in his SPC.
55F - Ankle injury, positive Ottowa examination and x-rays later confirmed.
80M - Social work required, he walked into a clinic for tests he had months ago. We tracked down his LOM who said he had been showing signs of cognitive degeneration and confusion.
??M - Cancer Hx now with leg pain - Called off.
92F - Not feeling herself, not sure who she was feeling so we transported.
??M - Called from a payphone demanding transport to have a plaster cast removed from his leg. Didn't stick around for us, UTL.
85F - Long Lie, had been on the floor for nearly thirty six hours. Luckily for her it was a nice warm dry apartment with thick carpet and she had been pulling herself around to try and reach either the phone or the Vita Call pendent she wasn't wearing. Transported.

905 jobs/121 shift = 7.48 average

See you at the big One.

Taz

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