Nearly broke my waiting at hospital record!

75F - Found by Police waiting for husband at a shopping centre. Shop owners had seen her waiting for hours and approached her and then called the Cops. They eventually found where she lived and took her home, no husband there but signs that one did in fact exist.
They call us because they know she has a medical condition but aren't sure what, Dementia.
20 minutes later Hubby found in hospital. Has regular overnight stays for a procedure and as they have no family, all their friends are a similar age to them & pt will lock any carer out at the first opportunity she stays at home by herself.
We judge that she is a little too confused today & although not ideal we transport her to the ED for the social workers to assist.

The hospital is backed up, 6 crews and the word is no offload until the morning.
The dispatcher reads a list of uncovered jobs over the radio.
My partner is treating and our pts a walker so I have a complete ambulance to respond in.
I grab a young firebrand from another crew and off we go.

88F - Dull chest pain, we are happy that it's not cardiac but more anxiety but we still transport for bloods and Dr assessment.

We've taken this pt to a different hospital, it was closer to her home.
The firebrands partner is unloaded at the other hospital and comes down to collect him and I have the pt now.
An hour and I offload.
Travel back to the first hospital where we are still nursemaiding our 1st pt as she will try to walk out of the department otherwise.
We takeover an afternoon shift crews pt so they can go home.
We get a bed and nurse for our 1st pt after five and a half hours.
We unload the 2nd pt an hour and a half after that.

Next job and we're not going back to that hospital.

23M - Punched to face, some teeth gone and bleeding. Transport for cleanup, dental referral.

16F - Has had her insulin and her BGL is still going up. Take to the same hospital as the guy above.

23M - Hops to Hosp transfer for Maxofacial consult.

59F - Epistaxis, BP of 200 SYS and recurrent bleeds of the last week.

And the ten minutes to knock off job,
Two car MVA from the Police who are not on scene and didn't arrive for 20 minutes after we did. No injuries very low speed.



See you at the big One.

Taz