Scene Safety
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004 at 3:34 pm
Last night's EMS shift was mostly uneventful… Only 1 call for an elderly female complaing of shortness of breath. SpO2 (a measure of how oxygenated the blood is) was 100% on her home oxygen. Can't really get much better than that, and no signs of acute difficulty breathing, but she demanded transport to the hospital anyways. She had just been released 2 days prior, and had been complaining of SOB since then, so most likely she was in the same condition as when the doctors discharged her. The patient had end-stage congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis and emphysema… Really not much you are going to do for that, since it's all chronic, and wasn't acute at this time… But anyways, as for the title of this post, evidently a paramedic was assaulted at this address by the patient's son, when the paramedic didn't give his father morphine, simply because he requested it. Wish I knew that before I showed up to the scene all by myself :-/
Hopefully tonight's shift will be a bit more interesting… Now it's off to go eat some lunch, since I don't want to become like the average American family and throw out food… Well that would be mostly due to the fact that I am never home anyways…
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Mom Says:
I think we should make an “African holiday” a must for all Americans. It would really open their eyes as to how good they have it. This article on the food wastefulness is not astonishing but defibitely sad, when I see how it could be put to good use.