I was just reading a post over at Medic999’s blog where he talks about an interesting job that he went to, not interesting because of the events that led up to the 999 call or the interventions that he used, but because of the person that he met.  This has reminded me of a job [...]

I have recently seen a patient that confused me, two of my colleagues and a number of ED Doctors, so what do you think is wrong with this patient….?

…..responder on scene about 3 minutes ahead of you. “The patient is presenting with shortness of breath, bi-laterally bubbly chest sounds and maybe a wheeze.  I’m thinking [...]

Emergency call to an old peoples home nearby, elderly male with alzeihmers, threatening to smash the place up….

…what made them decide an ambulance would be a good resource to send???

“You were quick!” says the very pale looking man who answered the door.  He looked like the person that we were calling to see – a male in his 70’s who is complaining of shortness of breath with hemoptysis, hence the small amount of blood on his top lip coming from his nose and mouth.

Recently I had an Epiphany….

a Sudden Realisation that I was going to be a Paramedic!
We were called to a nursing home to a male with a report BM of 1.8 (this is a low blood sugar level that could result in unconsciousness)….

“Carers Leave Patient on Floor for over an Hour Illegally!” now that would be an interesting headline in a news paper, although we know it will more likely be “Ambulance takes an Hour to attend to Terminally ill man!”….
So why might we see a headline like this…..

Emergency Call, 21 Month Old, Fallen From Chair, No other details.  Its Dark, rush hour, and a drive of over 20 minutes on blue lights on the motorway, dual carriageway and other urban roads to a new estate that I have only been too once before.
The street is very dark, all of the house numbers [...]

Sometimes when your on a job, some things just don’t seem right. You can’t put your finger on it, but your suspicions just increase with time…..
It was the last hour of a very busy shift where we had also had a late meal break when we got called to a local office block to [...]

Just a short post tonight as its been a long busy day….

We see a lot of dead people in our job.  In the last 5 shifts I have seen three dead people, two of which there was absolutely nothing that we could do for them.  For these people we complete a Recognition of Life Extinct [...]

Recently we were called to assist two PTS Crews (Three people in total) to move a “large” patient into his house. This patient fell into the Bariatric category of “large” – I had no idea that we transported people of this size….

The patient had been collected by the PTS Crew and was taken to a [...]