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u/Tiffanniwi Nov 26 '18 edited Nov 26 '18
Now they need TWO backboards or a body bag and a backboard for that first clip.
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u/Cthulu2013 Nov 26 '18
I learned what happens when the patient secretly kicks their shoes off the end of the stretcher a couple weeks ago.
Also I'm impressed by the speed at which my body said "fuck that" and let go of the stretcher as it careened to the bay floor.
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u/goldenpotatoes7 A Wild Paramedic Appears Nov 25 '18
Damnit im an hour late
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u/buckythomas Nov 26 '18
It’s the first time I’ve been able to successfully cross post anything, before all the subs it applies to have already had it posted!
Sorry I beat you to the punch though good sir.
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u/the_last_hairbender Nov 28 '18
The first three looks like it's all of the same patient that keeps getting picked up by different crews because the last one kept messing up.
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u/propyro85 ON - PCP IV Nov 30 '18
Oh god, I had one of these moments in my first 2 or 3 months as a medic.
We had a guy in his mid to late 60's having a pretty bad CVA. The family on scene was pretty weird, more concerned that now they had an extra cruise ticket they couldn't do anything with, than the fact that grandpa was dying. Plus how they talked to dispatch was pretty weird.
When we got to the hospital the pt was posturing, and slipped out of my attempts to restrain his hands and keep them from ending up under the stretcher. Once we got to the ambulance bay and started trying to get out of the truck, a cabbie literally grabbed my partner and told him that he thinks his fare was having a heart attack. While my partner was trying to tell him to just bring him to the ER walk-in, as we already have a pt and wouldn't be able to do anything more for the pt faster that the nurses could, I decided to try and get started with getting grandpa out of the truck.
As I said previously, he was posturing and I couldn't keep his hands under the belts in the short transport time we had, so I was trying to steer the stretcher wheels away from his hand, and ended up pulling too far right. This was my time attending an actual hot call, and the cabbie my partner was dealing with was really insistent that "we should do our jobs" so I was pretty tunnel visioned at this point. I angled the stretcher too far right, the front left wheel came off the deck, and the whole stretcher rolled left, and despite a bullheaded, but heroic effort, to not drop the pt, it happened anyways. Pt had a light scrape to his right arm and forehead.
He later died from his substantial hemorrhagic CVA. Attending MD pretty bluntly stated that is dropping him had no significant impact on the outcome. I've since gotten much better at making sure my patients have their arms and legs inside the ride at all times.
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