Not a day of any great note.

That's not to say that it wasn't enjoyable and we did meet some very interesting people.

53M - Slipped on the wet floor of a bus (it's been raining for two day +) C/o knee pain. He is clearly in pain but I can't see any injury, everything is in place and no deformity. The very least of my job is to provide adequate analgesia and I do that well. No one is in pain in the back of my ambulance and our pt is later discovered to have ruptured a tendon.

89M - Feeling funny. From the details supplied by the wife and pt it seemed like a TIA episode. With a Hx of CVA 20yrs ago we're transporting. His pacemaker is also firing twice before there is a complex.

9M - At school, jumped up to go to the board and write his name and fainted on the way.
The school has a duty of care but mum was already there and he was ok so she just took him home with some common sense instructions.

23F - Known epileptic who is not really compliant with her meds so had a seizure. Interestingly her contractions are that strong she dislocates her shoulder. It's happened before she's good otherwise and Hospital pop it in no problem.

55F - Lac to top of head just needed some stitches.

23F - ? # ankle. As we pull into the loading dock of the department store we're called off as pt has been taken to the medical centre in the shopping centre. Never heard anything more so it can't have been broken.

23F - 4/7 Hx of fever and cough, has seen LMO and got some AB's for a throat infection, returns to work because they're very understaffed. Feels very hot and goes to toilet to spritz herself, feels dizzy and sits herself down on the floor (this pt has more common sense than most). Woke up kissing the floor tiles and the boss shaking her. She may have been there for ten minutes or more but as it was a true LOC even though it's likely cause is the underlying infection and the pt's work ethic we transported.

87F - Vomiting and dizzy. As we pulled into the street we were diverted to a nearby MVA to assist another crew with an extrication of a pt with spinal pain.

Many hands make light work, we assist with the application of the short spine extraction device, pt reassurance while rescue chop and lop the car and the actual removal of the pt.

86M - Abdo pain, RLQ but he's had his appendix removed so it GIT related.

62M - In a book store and he had a confirmed LOC. Otherwise healthy gent was very slow to accept postural changes without effect, transport again is required because of the full LOC.

980 jobs/129 shifts = a 7.60 average




See you at the big One.

Taz