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911 Update

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Sorry, but Ambulance Driver is a couple of days behind in the Update. On March 9th our Department had 98 calls in my 12 hour shift. Busy day, but we only handled 6 of them.

  • Call #1  was for a elderly lady in a nursing home that was mildly hypotensive, weak and thought to be suffering from dehydration.
  • Call #2 was for a young man with a chronic disease who had stopped taking his meds and hadn’t seen a doctor for while. Ended up at a clinic wondering why he felt so bad.
  • Call #3 was for a middle age man who broke his ankle running down the basement stairs. He really like the morphine.
  • Call #4 was for a nursing home patient with a sudden allergic reaction that threatened to close the airway. Epinephrine and Benadryl came in very handy.
  • Call # 5 involved an elderly lady with non-traumatic hip pain. Previous hip replacement
  • Call #6 was for a jaywalker who got run over by a car that was exiting a parking lot. The tires ran over the paitent’s legs, at least one of which was fractured. No other injury.

Written by Duke

March 11th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Posted in 911 Update

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