I am still in HS, EMT school next year then probably a year of field experience before I will take a go t the Medic school. Do you work friday nights at Renown? I usually ride with Gonzo and Dave on 411 but they have a new medic that REMSA hired and they are doing ride along training with him so lately I have been on 437. Im the kid with long hair in the white shirt with the Manogue HS 'M' logo on it. Give me a hollar if you see me. I don't know if I have ever been in the Reown ICU, I have been in St. Mary's but I don't know about Renown, we are always downstair in the Green, Red and Blue pods, unless it is one of them?
Im not on the rig every weekend, pretty close though, but yes I will keep it updated. I only have one picture from this weekend, kind of a slow shift. Once I get it on my computer I will upload it.
This weekend we didn't have any trama patients, mostly sick people and transfers. The 'worst' calls of the night were a transfer from the hospital to a rehab center and a man with severe abdominal pain. Neither were too exciting, what made them bad was that both patients had MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is a nasty version of a Staph infection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA
For the transfer we were all decked out in our 'sponge-bob' suits that you have to wear for transfers of patients with contact precautions, MRSA cultures in your nose but only becomes an infection if it gets in an open wound, so no masks are needed.
The man we picked up with the abdominal pain was a little scary because he also had MRSA, but we didn't have any contact precautions left besides gloves so we had to try and help the patient while making very little physical contact with him, so that was a little interesting.
Another patient we responded to was a priority 1 chest pain. His rhythms on the 12 lead were normal, they showed some previous damage but still were a little on the iffy side but despite our best persuasive efforts, he refused transport. So we AMAd him (Against Medical Advise) and went on our way.
One patient we had well down a set of stairs, but we were called priority 2 for 'Patient Altered' which means they are not their normal selves. He was AnO x4 (Alert and Oriented x amount of questions asked) but we transported to get a cut above his eye all fixed up from his fall.
It was a pretty slow night, and we spent the time watching Good Luck Chuck, hopefully next week will be more interesting. I will throw the picture of me in my super cool sponge-bob suit up when I have time.
Edit: Some things I forgot from the very first post.
The absolute worst call I have been on was that accident, because of the brain matter that was all over and the passenger with compound fractures in both femurs, compound fractures in both legs in his Tibia and Fibula, and compound fractures in both ankles, followed by a homicide that we had to respond to to declare the person dead.