"What a nice day...
I think I'll spend it at the emergency room"
That has to be what people are thinking. It was sunny outside yesterday, one of the nicest days we've had for a while. I knew we'd be busy on the medic. Yesterday was diabetic/seizure day. Out of the 16 runs we had yesterday, probably half of them were diabetic related, or seizure. Our first run of the day came in @ 0710, and was both. A guy was found below an overpass, face down in the dirt, unconscious and unresponsive. You could tell that he was hypothermic and had probably been there most of the night. He was drooling, and had blood in his sputum like he'd been seizing. Got him in the medic, gave him narcan and dextrose, (that's our uncon/unresponsive protocol), and he started to come around. When we got him to the hospital, turns out the police were looking for him because they had found his car into a pole the night before, but couldn't find him. At the time we found him, his blood sugar level was 15, normal is 80-120. It appears that his blood sugar dropped while he was driving, he hit the pole, got out and began wandering around. He traveled across a highway, and got to the section he was found in. It was surrounded by a chain link fence that he evidently couldn't manage to get over in his condition. As his blood sugar dropped lower, he seized and that's how we found him. Lucky for him, he had several tattoos and just a few teeth, so he'll end up being fine.
Our remaining runs were the typical, "Yeah, I have a seizure disorder but I haven't taken my meds because I ran out", or people trying to regulate their diabetes. A few cold and flu pt's. Just typical stuff.
One of the other medics did have an interesting run. A girl decided she wanted to end it all so she went upstairs to the bath tub and stabbed herself in the stomach with an 8" butcher knife. One of our cops arrived and began talking to her, she got frustrated at him and pulled the knife out of her stomach and proceeded to wave it at him. He stepped back, drew his gun. She looked at him and turned the knife around and stuck it back in her stomach. Medics arrived, stabilized the knife and took her in to the hospital. She went right up to surgery, and she'll probably make it. She must have LOTS of tattoos and VERY few teeth...
That has to be what people are thinking. It was sunny outside yesterday, one of the nicest days we've had for a while. I knew we'd be busy on the medic. Yesterday was diabetic/seizure day. Out of the 16 runs we had yesterday, probably half of them were diabetic related, or seizure. Our first run of the day came in @ 0710, and was both. A guy was found below an overpass, face down in the dirt, unconscious and unresponsive. You could tell that he was hypothermic and had probably been there most of the night. He was drooling, and had blood in his sputum like he'd been seizing. Got him in the medic, gave him narcan and dextrose, (that's our uncon/unresponsive protocol), and he started to come around. When we got him to the hospital, turns out the police were looking for him because they had found his car into a pole the night before, but couldn't find him. At the time we found him, his blood sugar level was 15, normal is 80-120. It appears that his blood sugar dropped while he was driving, he hit the pole, got out and began wandering around. He traveled across a highway, and got to the section he was found in. It was surrounded by a chain link fence that he evidently couldn't manage to get over in his condition. As his blood sugar dropped lower, he seized and that's how we found him. Lucky for him, he had several tattoos and just a few teeth, so he'll end up being fine.
Our remaining runs were the typical, "Yeah, I have a seizure disorder but I haven't taken my meds because I ran out", or people trying to regulate their diabetes. A few cold and flu pt's. Just typical stuff.
One of the other medics did have an interesting run. A girl decided she wanted to end it all so she went upstairs to the bath tub and stabbed herself in the stomach with an 8" butcher knife. One of our cops arrived and began talking to her, she got frustrated at him and pulled the knife out of her stomach and proceeded to wave it at him. He stepped back, drew his gun. She looked at him and turned the knife around and stuck it back in her stomach. Medics arrived, stabilized the knife and took her in to the hospital. She went right up to surgery, and she'll probably make it. She must have LOTS of tattoos and VERY few teeth...
posted by Bill at 10:04 AM
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She stabs herself, someone tries to talk to her, so she pulls the knife from her stomach, threatens him, and then stabs herself again?
God bless firemen and cops. I've heard of people with no one on their side, but in this case, she wasn't even on her own side.
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