The Blood Alcohol Concentration limit for driving in Australia is 0.05 grams of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The calculation is similar in the US but I believe the limit is 0.08.
50M - Fallen in the street, maybe intoxicated. Take him to the special small hospital in the center of the city for the uninjured drunk person, to confirm that it is alcohol ask him to provide a breath sample,,,,,,,, 0.360%. Leave at hospital to sober up.
??F - Fallen on street, UTL.
56M - Seen by Police being lead off by a female person of ill repute who quickly disappeared as they approached. Remove him from the streets to the same hospital for the same reason. Provides a breath sample of,,,,, 0.392%
16M - Whom relatives say was threatening self harm, he denies it and has a good turn on the events of the evening but duty of care and of someone his age we have to transport.
60F - Thirsty and restless. Anxiety and depression, I've met her before. If it wasn't for her age and being at home, the way her mouth was smacking you'd swear she'd popped a pill (Ecstasy or MDMA). She could take oral fluids, had an appointment with her LMO in two day and there was no clinical reason to transport, after we had told her this she just said OK and went to bed leaving us in the lounge room to let ourselves out.
30F - Throwing the worst ever pseudo fit. My partner gave her a reality check and some good sound advise and we hailed a cab for her to leave the club she was outside of.
50M - I've got sore legs. IP and on the nod although he denies any opiate or such. Just a knob who later got kicked out of the hospital for just that, being a knob, in-operable.
16F - Anxiety attack and thinks she might be pregnant, why this becomes ambulance work at 5 am on the main drag in the city I don't know.
57F - Doing a good job of describing sciatica. She's never even heard of it.
I've got my parents arriving in a few days before they collect the caravan and continue their 'Grey Nomad' trek around Australia as well as a day of tutoring at the University of Tasmania's medical campus here in Sydney. They have very cleverly organised for Qualified Officers from ASNSW to be approached to provide tutoring on our days off as a secondary employment.
I also have a Traffic Offenders presentation.
No rest for the wicked.
See you at the big One.
Taz
20 March 2011
I can't believe your still walking!
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Alcohol..glad I stopped drinking.
I remember as a new grad nurse and a doctor coming in to talk to a patient who had arrived days earlier in a coma. He told the patient that at a 0.47 he was the highest he had witnessed without being dead.
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