A day off for a course and Bam!

An introduction to Emergency Management.
No assessment, good presenter and I got paid to do it.

Come back to a night shift and what a shift, just like the ol' days.

9M - Up here for a soccer camp just with Dad. Coughed the wrong way and Dad panicked. The young fella was ok and Dad decided to self manage.

32M - Heroin OD. Easy job pt didn't want to come to hospital with us.

24M - Cut on the tip of the thumb. He asked us what we thought. Now I didn't say he should visit Bunnings (hardware store) and buy some cement and toughen the F$%k UP. But my partner might have. He stayed at home.

Called to an UNKNOWN job, got called off.

54M - SOB, speaking in full, complete, lengthy and rambling sentences. Maybe just a bit pissed and anxious. Stayed at home near his booze.

MVA - Two taxis nil injuries.

20M - IP, got called off.

30M - Assaulted cousin when they both got on the grog big time and then passed out. An ED won't do anything for a simple broken nose but GCS under 10 vomiting boy needed a trip for observation. When he woke up he didn't remember a thing!

36M - Abdo pain, got called off this one too.

38M - with Police, had been escorted out of a hotel and then appeared to start fitting. More like drug induced dystonic twitches. Cops found heaps of different gear on him and his presentation made us think that he may have been in the K hole (ketamine - a rapid-acting general anaesthetic).

26F - Had got bumped on the hear by a door. Hotel security called for an ambulance even if she didn't want us because it was nothing, which it was.

40M - Homeless dude in McDonalds with busted apart trousers, no shoes and a bad smell. Who are they gonna call. Small hospital in the middle of the city was the right place for him tonight.

50M - IP who can't walk,,,, Amazing how a good accidental wedgy can fix that. For public safety and even his own we transported to a waiting room.

24M - A member of our fine Constabulary who was sprayed by a co-worker while taking down a bad guy needed us to de-contaminate him. Don't know if the bad guy needed some too,,, don't really care from the abuse coming from the back of the cage truck.

85M - Asthmatic. You can really do some good by recognising a proper asthma attack. Three nebs and some adrenaline started to fix him up but a trip to hospital was needed too.

15 jobs in a 12 hrs shift!

920 jobs/122 shifts = 7.54 average.




See you at the big One.

Taz