One sick pt for the shift.

The night started off grand with a police special 3 for 1.
There'd been a big brawl and the local cells were full and these three likely lads had been transferred to our local nick for processing and decontamination.
Two and a half cans of capsicum spray and they had been about to set the dog on them before they had complied with police instructions.
Just drunk tourists.

73M - SOB. While with a history of asthma the presentation was not normal and we discovered that he also suffered with a very large hiatus hernia that allowed a large portion of the stomach to shift into the chest cavity and therefore also impede respiration.

35M - Police called, second fight he had been in tonight and with minor head lac and a resolved epistaxis they were eager to haul him off for a reservation at the custody cells.

34M - In custody, asks for an ambulance for stomach craps. It's a common call as I'm sure it is with other EMS from around the world. When asked if there was any reason for the craps (trauma, previous Hx, etc)' Oh yea' he says, 'I'm really hungry and they won't buy me any more food'. To his credit he was offering his own money but he wanted the police to cease their duties and buy him a midnight snack. I got very close to the concrete speech (toughen the f#*k up), we left him with the police who confirmed they wouldn't be calling us back.

??F - Self harm, problem was what was her location? With the cops at one and us at another before we both drove to a third, our attendance was cancelled until they found her.

27M - Man Flu His mummy, who had driven to his apartment at 5 o'clock in the morning was going to drive him to a hospital closer to where she lived.


See you at the big One.

Taz