My patient today thought I was around 20 years old….. cognitively intact I swear. I still feel really young; what a strange feeling it is for us millennials. That was a nice mood boost.
I still battle my disordered eating demons when it’s time to clean up. I always feel slightly uncomfortable in dresses, but when I can carry my 28lb daughter around while wearing a dress and heels with ease…Those demons stfu.
A bad representation of first response to a pt with a LOC and child with head injury that dispatch was aware of. All of this to say learn CPR and basic first aide. I’m glad I was there and I grateful to have these skills, I hope I never have to use them again.
Was Unconscious. No questions after report no haste. I assume they were not wanting to get involved till EMS. (I come from a fam of first responders my dad with DC fire and brother with HOCO fire). FD is almost always first to arrive as EMS is overworked. I get it. But this was
Injury (I believe she was riding in front seat with mom not in car seat). Had to admin first aid to some gnarly head wound on dad the mom had a LOC w threading pulse. FD arrived 2 men on the wagon. Driver and chief. And very slowly assisted w IV and EKG as this woman
Were banged up. I buckled up one child who was not injured in my car with the dog while I helped the mother who appeared to have a head injury, thankfully their fam had been close by and called so the toddler was taken by one of them which I realized also had a head
Yesterday I was a first responder on a pretty bad accident where a fam was injured with two kids and a dog on the loose. I had my daughter in the car but I stopped anyway. My first instinct was to check the kids, then grab the dog so it didn’t get hit then check the parents who