See tonight's busier.

48M - Alleged assault.
Unconscious male, sitting upright in the middle of some steps when we arrived. Tired and resting.
58M - IP, depressed who has a Hx of sporting large knives on his person. None tonight thankfully,
52F - Feeling nauseous.
46F - Feeling anxious.
22F - Who wouldn't believe me that you're supposed to feel funny after smokin' weed and she wanted to go to the hospital to continue feeling funny!
34M - Who called us because someone slapped him in the face, we double checked yes slapped him.
65M - Discharge post CABg.

There was more work but that's all.

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

Taz

I thought it was quiet!

MVC - Without any patients.
Choking - But they then managed to swallow and cancelled us.
28M - Homeless and there is no hostel beds in the city so he just caught a train up the coast.
58F - Asthmatic who's anxious and SOB, I calmed her down and her breathing got better.
26F - Emotional and just having a good ol' fashion cry, nothing more serious than that but her sister overseas thought there was.
68M - Awoken from sleep with what he thought correctly was AF. He has had an episode about 20yrs ago but this one is not resolving and indeed it was still running around 140bpm hours later.
68F - Laryngeal spasm, she has a Hx for the same but this episode lasted longer and panicked her.

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

Taz

We are the Mental Health Bus!

63F - Lives in a hostel and was in a local facility for a few weeks suffering manic episodes and they've hit again. She claims to be taking her meds??
53M - Absconded yesterday from a facility and found by Police today for us to return.
68F - Found by Police living at the bottom of someones backyard? sounds like a fairytale but it isn't! Poor love she's homeless and suffers dementia, there are several journals with repetitive writings and drawings I don't know how long she has slipped through the cracks but hopefully we have caught her now.
26F - Known epileptic but an unwitnessed seizure in the bathroom and falling in the tub resulting in two facial injuries meant that I did push the point of transport before her GCS really improved too much.
18mthM - Croup, very good, thinking, common sense parents. We don't see enough of it.
81F - Gastro and as the carer for her husband needed the care of a hospital while a family member tried to cope with him. Pardon the pun but a shit awful way to spent your 81st birthday!
68F - Flu, fever, fainted this panicked the husband but with advice she stayed at home.
61F - Mechanical fall with a resulting swollen lip but she is on aspirin.

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

Taz

No time to rest at work.

20M - Concern for welfare after a long night drinking. 'Yes it will get better trust me!' And they think they're so tough and worldly.
72M - With increasing mobility issue and today the Misses can't get him out of bed. We talk about long term treatment options and home services and leave them to it as neither wish to come to hospital for this chronic problem.
73F - Social issues that don't require an ambulance.
Unknown - the address is a phone box, there's no-one there so call it UTL.
55M - Well known IP and threatening self harm as he does when he is!
Backup at the Casino for someone fallen down the escalator, cancelled.
Cardiac Arrest that turned out to be a mistaken call and not a medical incident at all.
45M - Spinning a very long and convoluted story that came to the same spot 'I need pain relief' We took him to the hospital and let them give him the bad news. You don't need any.
66M - Septic is a good bet.
89M - End stage CA and becoming acopic at home.


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

Taz

Did I say I had some down time?

I get the first day to sleep, then I have five hours to perform in a scenario for a Youth Road Trauma Expo before driving 2 hrs to give my Adult Traffic Offenders Intervention Program presentation and then drive home and sleep another day before driving 5 hrs to stay overnight before doing another presentation before driving back and then going to work the next day!

Yep I'll be well and rested.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.

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

Taz

Last shift for this block.

And I don't mind telling you I'm a little stuffed.
It takes a lot of energy to be bouncy and upbeat all the time, but I've done it and can now have a few day rest.
29M - Inter hospital transfer, one of three we'll do tonight.
31M - Abdo pain and again like last night I believe this guy, my guess, because we didn't go back to that hospital that night was a stomach ulcer.
41F - Claiming back pain. I've not seen her before but knew the story at a glance. A person who lives in a group home but with minimal supervision and is allowed to come and go as she wishes. She rides on trains to other cities and then claims some illness to get a bed for the night in hospital before returning home the next day. All this was confirmed by the after hours contact number she supplied. We directed her to catch the next train before we gave her to the Police for being a Public Nuisance (as directed by the carer's).
81F & 86F in a two for one hospital transfer.
48M - Homeless Man who looked crook.
2F - Has a fever (known to have had contact with other children who are sick) and had a little vomit. Advice given to Mum of caring for her at home and to ring back if anything changes.
37F - Admits to excessive drug use in the last 24 hours but thinks someone has spiked her with more.

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

Taz

I don't have a protocol for this.

The bane of all of us I suspect, the hang up job.
For the non ambo's, a call is made to the emergency number and maybe a few words are said or not and then it is hung up. We get sent to see if we are needed. the address details are only those of the phone as it is mostly a payphone (if a mobile the address of the owner is the best you get) and you arrive to search for a 'possible' patient.
O/a we are directed by some youths whom we asked if they had seem anyone behaving abnormal to a location around the corner and are confronted by several persons enjoying the contents of a brown paper bag and singing really really badly. Yep that's them, someone rang to complain about their singing!
We I don't have anything in by bag for that and so we left them to it.
5M - Has a toothache and a little vomit. We assessed and talked it over with Mum and they stayed behind.
57F - Laryngitis, self care at home.
43M - Anxiety.
48M - Abdo pain and very severe, one of those few that the experienced clinician recognises as a genuine case. Rigid with some deformity to his umbilical turned out to have been a strangulated hernia.
49M - Long fall unwitnessed with a closed head injury.
42M - Witnessed to collapse in a dance club and denied any drug use, yeah right. Fessed up later that there was Ketamine and pills on board. 

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

Taz