911 Update
Today was an 8 hour shift during which our service responded to 48 calls to 911. We snagged 6 of them.
- Call #1 was for a patient who was suffering an apparent allergic reaction to a prepackaged nutritional supplement. Skin was flushed with no other symptoms. Benadryl was administered.
- Call #2 involved a drunk sitting on a sidewalk and was unable to walk away. He was amiable enough and taken to Detox.
- Call #3 concerned a nursing home patient with profound hypotension. While he was mentating and sitting up when we arrived, he had no palpable pulses. Very sick individual
- Call #4 was for an apparent cellulitis that had caused a leg to swell about three times the normal size. It occurred over night. Patient could not bear weight. Luckily, they were not heavy.
- Call #5 was a young person who was either very anxious because their pulse was 140/min or had a fast pulse because they were anxious. We didn’t know which, but weren’t overly concerned either way.
- Call #6 was in response to a diabetic who knew their blood sugar was low. Turned out they were correct, the reading was less than 15. An IV bolus of Dextrose made everything better.
That’s it. Ambulance Driver is going to be a soccer dad this weekend out on the East Coast. Blogging will be minimal.