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Budget Cuts And Staffing Problems...This past week they've cut our 12 hour ambulance out completely to move the 12 hour crews over to open shifts on a 24 hour truck. It makes sense to do that but in turn means that we are running 2 times as many calls as we use to. The past few shifts I have not gotten any rest at all... when at least when we have the 12 hour truck we got a little during the day. The place where I work has a high call volume and only having 2 trucks, is stressing the system. People are already calling in sick, and taking off... I'm doing my best to work and stay healthy. Last shift was a weird one... of course since I started working 24s... I really haven't had a boring shift. First thing in the morning we had a death. It was a 46 year old man. He had died in his sleep. The family told us that he was a "crack head" and the night before he died, he was sitting up in the living room watching tv, and he kept going in to a daze and finally said he was going to bed. The police came in and worked a crime scene. There was blood coming out of his mouth... not sure exactly what that was from... we took him to the morgue and they're going to do an autopsy so I'm sure through word of mouth I'll hear the news from that as well in the next few weeks. After that it wasn't to bad. We had a wreck. It was just a fender bender. But a poor 11 year old girl she was having back pain so of course we had to immobilize her... and imagine that, just 10 minutes earlier she was in the ER for a nose bleed... and to top it off it was her birthday the next day. So we took her to the hospital, I'm sure they checked her out and let her go not to long after we brought her in. After that... the other truck had gotten a call for a wreck... and about 45 minutes later we got a call at the jail. The guy at the jail had caused the wreck because he had taken to muscle relaxers and he was arrested for DUI. So we went and picked him up... oh how pleasant... when we started waking up he started cussing us out and screaming like a child when we tried starting i.v.'s. He had gone unconscious shortly after the first ambulance left the wreck (he refused transport that time). So the police handcuffed his arm down to the stretcher and I held the other one while my partner started an I.V. and we took him to the hospital making sure the husband of the woman who was hurt in the wreck didn't see him... apparently he was extremely mad... it's ironic the guy who caused the wreck didn't get hurt by the actual wreck... but the other people did... that's how it usually is though, huh? Anyways... it was quiet after that... until about 4am... we got called out for a cardiac arrest... it was a 79 year old man... who had a history of heart problems... he was gone when we got there. So we pronounced him and waited an hour and a half for the corner to get there... they had another dead at a nursing home...to at the same time. That's pretty much how every shift's been for a while. We have some interesting calls every shift... which is great for me. I enjoy getting a break from transfers and nursing home runs... and having some good stuff. Comments (3)
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