Well today was a bit more eventful. We had a mass casualty incident drill this morning and that went off with tons of hitches as I am told. We were put on "In unit stand by" for an hour and a half. We never made it to the event. Oh well, had a chance to book the hotel for tomorrow while I waited. I have been told that I should share some EMS stories on my blog. I am not sure why, but I guess some people are interested. So....
We ran a call where in an elderly lady had fallen and struck her head on the coffee table. She got herself up and decided to clean up the blood stain on the floor. She went into the kitchen to get a wash cloth and discovered that there was blood all over the kitchen as well. While cleaning it up she realized that it was still bleeding....badly! in fact, she had torn an artery in her scalp. She was literally bleeding to death. She called 911. When we arrived, she was sitting on the front porch. She was more concerned about the stains in the carpet than her own health. I assessed her and found the loosely wrapped arterial bleed to have filled the dressing applied with blood. We loaded her up and unwrapped the wound and lets just say she re-decorated the wall of the ambulance in a stylish red. I decided I had better put a stop to her art work and applied pressure to the wound. I had a fireman ride in and continue the pressure while I did other stuff. She was taken to the hospital and is doing fine.
In retrospect, I find her desire for a clean house being greater than her knowledge of her impending doom to be a bit perplexing. Sometimes I guess we all over look the important things in life and place too much importance on things that on a grander scale just do not matter.... DJ
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