The cold can't keep them away always!

It's either been cold or wet but the natives have to stur or suffer cabin fever if they don't go out to the city and pub, clubs and strip joints.

24F - Pregnant and today c/o chest pain that appears to be pleuritic in cause.
63M - Suffering a psychotic event and the Acute Care Team called us to attend and transport.
70M - IP who stepped of a bus and fell forward and head butted the pavement in front of a Dr from the ED who was one their way to night shift.
74F - Attending a large ethnic wedding and had been drinking and dancing and siffered a near syncope event. We had cleared the pt in no time at all but it took us ages to calm everyone else.
Police job, Domestic Dispute, cancelled on arrival.
25F - Abdo pain that she thought was from not eating,,, yeah I know what your thinking but until I'm authorised to refuse peoples demands to be transported to hospital and not have to defend myself from an often over zealous Standards and Conduct Unit transport them I must.
25F - ?# ankle, UTL
29M - Laceration to the face from a bar brawl, it needed stitches.
44M - Claimed chest pain, shame was we had seen him at hospital earlier, were aware that he had been cleared and discharged. We were also aware that he had got another crew to bring him back again later claiming chest pain because it was cold, dark and to far to the train station and got read the riot act by Triage. Denied chest pain and promised not to call again unless he was really sick or Police would be coming with us next time.
79M - Regular Dialysis.

Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

Taz

Cold Night, Quiet Streets.

37F - with a cut palm from trying to catch the falling glass vase, never a good idea it always seems to end in tears that one. It needed stitches and we had to transport the her lovely three year old as well because Daddy was inter-state tonight.
56F - Abdo pain and vomiting.
19F - IP, one of those few who are still nice when pissed.
35F - Agitated Meth Head who wanted to go to hospital. For God knows what 'cause she never told me or Triage.
75M - Regular Dialysis.
Started early and finished late.

Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

Taz

A full day full of variety!

A bitterly cold start to the day but it soon warmed up, well with work that is,

19M - A sheet of plate glass fell on him (80kg) cervical neck spinal pain on a building site good fun. Safe extrication and treatment saw him discharged later in the day cleared of anything other than muscle pain.
73M - Biggest damn epistaxis I've ever seen, been going for over an hour, he's on blood thinners and I reckon 400mls of blood loss on scene that I saw!
82M - SOB.
55F - Bystander quick dialled Ambulance without telling the ?patient? she went back to her office building.
88M - Dizzy, no obvious cause.
18M - American Backpacker horsing around and lacerated his eyebrow. A steri strip or two go him patched up.
29M - Panic attack, resolved and left to go home.
66F - Fell on some bad paving and hurt her knee and ankle, no obvious injury but requesting transport.
Looking for someone in a wheelchair at a train station! Still don't know why but Police got there first and called us off UTL.
36M - Ascities.

Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

Taz

New Day, New Week.

So Ambowife was away on the days off and I had some visiters from home do a sleep over before catching a plane this morning to Europe.
Youngest patient today 64 years.

79M - Regular dialysis transport.
85F - Medical appointment.
64F - CA patient who is vomiting after the lastest round of chemo and unable to get it under control.
74M - Fall at home and while would befefit from an Aged Care Assessment Review refused to come.
93M - Fell this morning but not found until early PM. Shoulder pain and cold, needs a more detailed assessment and did allow me to transport. Had a rib fracture, bleeding internally and needed a chest tube as well as investigation into prolonged bous of bradycardia that he didn't have while in my care.
86F - Sepsis, probable pneumonia.
71F - Hospital to Hospital transfer.
73M - With a scalp wound post fall but the fluctuating GCS and recall worried me.

Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

Taz

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I purchased a new laptop and it's screen fractured after six days.

It was considered that I had dropped it because that's the only possible option.

I didn't, there wasn't any external damage but how do you prove it.

The warranty was refused but I could pay nearly as much again to have them replace just the screen.

I'm comfortable on the Internet, with eBay and Paypal, etc

I did some research.

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It would have been 4 days but we were out and missed the UPS man.

It was easy to order.

The product was exactly what I ordered.

It was a very very competitive price, in my hands for $107.00.

AUS and USD are about the same at the moment.

They even have videos and instructions on their site if your not sure how to replace it.

I don't believe I will ever need this company again but you might!

Take my word for it you can trust them and their service.

 

Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

 

Taz

That wasn't so bad.

I know my limitations, I'm aware of my short comings on clinical knowledge but Jesus there's some silly shit that they include in Paramedic Degrees.
It reinforces why we get some of those grads who think they're DR material out on the road and it's up to us the slower, dumber, 'not real Paramedics because we don't have a degree' Road Dinosaur staff to protect the public from them until we can slap this silly shit out of them.
Having said all that and after a whole pot of coffee I finished the exam not feeling gutted. There were to be seven different exams randomised so I must have got the easy one, lucky me.

??M - Sexually abusive to the call taker! So why dispatch an Ambulance? We couldn't find him.
??M - Chest pain but walking and giving stupid locations as he walked? I reckon it was the same dude.
33F - Passenger in a car crash (witnesses confirmed she was the passenger) Pissed as a Cricket as was the driver reportedly and totally fine, luck but, the car side swipped a domestic trailer hitched to a 4WD and a rail from the trailer entered the cabin behind the passenger seat rather than in front and then possibly causing a penetrating injury. Left with Police.
66F - NESB (Non English Speaking Background) Gastro and we couldn't get the message across that home was the best place to stay.
25M - Facial injuries after being assaulted, by the time he was going off for a CT the Cops had caught the six offenders. One eye was  fully shut.
79M - Found by the general public at a train station seeming a little confused, the Cops are called and call us. This very pleasent gent could tell us everything up until about 2005/6 we worked out, with reasonable clarity. He had no idea what town he was in and he had lived here at some stage, I located six different addresses in three diferent states up until March this year in the document in his suitcase. He was clean well groomed and the clothes in the case were likewise clean and looked appropriate for travelling. He was aware of his confusion and accepted our transport to hospital to protect him and investigate the possible reason for the confusion, infeaction, disease, age, and for social workers to try and locate his family. My partner was going to follow him up the next night.


Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

Taz

Asleep on station!

Well I tried to after our morning rally to draw attention to some industrial changes we want passed by Parliament. A couple of hundred turned up, would have been nice to have more but apathy and laziness particularly when there is no focus point like a pay rise of possible immediate loss of conditions is hard to battle.
So after that I went to work and made bed up and tried to get some sleep before the night shift and while I live next to an Airport the bunk room is on the street and there is construction going on next door as well so during the shift if jobs allow I'll try and get some more shuteye.

40M - Who rang 000 wanting answers? Don't know why they sent us but he had left his apartment by the time we arrived.
47M - Who wants to get to sleep but can't! (if the rest of the night is like this I'll go crazy myself). Abused everyone and left the hospital still abusing the universe.
53M - Left lower localised rib pain. The whole presentation changed and he sat up off the couch after I told him it wasn't his heart and it was safe to take some of his own over the counter pain killers. Stayed at home.
40F - Right lower rib pain, also not her heart but she told me that when we entered. A dry barking cough for 10/7 that is under treatment from her DR but she has pulled or pinched something and the pain has got uncontrollable (yep she's another of those who try to help themselves before they ring an Ambulance). Some nebulised saline to ease the cough stimulus (yes I am aware that there is no local protocol or clinical based evidence for this treatment but millions of Mothers for centuries must have known something) and some analgesia before transport for review of condition and re-assessment and pain management.
24F - Who had a cut on her thumb. I cleaned it and dressed it and while a pleasant young lass the gene pool was at the shallow end.
21M - Left sided pubic pain and swelling, I've never seen one but I'm guessing an Inguinal Hernia.
81M - Discharged to home.

In four hours I had to be up to sit for my first on-line Uni exam, luckily we got three hours down time between the last two jobs.

Be Excellent to Each Other and See You at the Big One!

Taz