EMS first for me

[ksmedic202]

Responed to a home for a "routine" psyche transport. A patient with suicidal ideations. Arrived on scene and the police inform me that not only is she suicidal, but she also threatened to stab her mother. Pt is a 14y/o female with a past history of Bi-polar.

Went inside with police escort and tried to explain what was going to happen (ride nicely with the paramedic or ride nasty in handcuffs and various other restraints.) Apparently I was no so convincing and she assulted me (okay, she hit me in the arm as hard as an average 14y/o female can). I guess what I am trying to say is that I got beat up by a 14y/o girl for my first assult. How embarrassing. The police really put it to her, but to her credit she put up a good fight. I can laugh about it, you guys take it and roll with it if you want to.

[VentMedic]

I guess you have never seen the inside of a pediatric lock-up psyche unit?

Those 8 y/o and under scare me the most. You see them as children. They see you as someone to hurt.

[spenac]

Haha you got beat up by a little girl.

Just kidding. Those are the hardest. You know you need to defend but you don't want to hurt a child. Adults that are out there you feel for them but it is easier to deal with.

Mental patients are a real challenge. Often in the ambulance nothing we can do for them. Kind of gives a helpless feeling.

Glad you and the kid made it out more or less physically ok.

[Dustdevil]

Went inside with police escort and tried to explain what was going to happen (ride nicely with the paramedic or ride nasty in handcuffs and various other restraints.)

Whose idea was it to even give her that choice? If she's mentally incompetent enough for you to take against her will, then she is mentally incompetent to strike a bargain with too. Screw the "Deal or No Deal" approach. Tell the cops she's going restrained, or she's going with them, period. I'm not going near her until she is restrained. That's covered on Day 1 of EMT school.

[AnthonyM83]

A coworker at my old job had a skinny shorter 17 year-old girl try to take him on hitting against the chest with closed fists (temper tantrum style) against his body armor. Father was standing right there. He was so dumfounded that she actually thought she had a chance and hesitant to slam her in front of the dad, he just stood there confused. :?: :? :?:

[Cattyemt]

One of the calls that made me feel absolutely the worst, we were sent to transport a ninety year old woman outta the hospital to a nursing home. let me preface the rest of this by saying that our uniforms are grey shirts, black pants and boots. black jackets. she took one look at us and freaked out. she was a concentration camp survivor with dementia. she didn't speak english and no matter what we tried to tell her she wouldn't believe we weren't there to hurt her. she was tiny, but she fought with everything she had. i felt horrible. how nightmarish it must have been for her to see us walk through the door.

[cyetternremtp]

Well that was a good learning point. When dealing w/any elderly person w/a slovak or jewish name from the old country, always watch what you are wearing.

[Richard B the EMT]

As I see it, it doesn't matter the age or size of the EDP (Emotionally Disturbed Person) or the drug abuser. When the patient's adrenalin, or the "Recreational Pharmaceutical" starts kicking in, they can successfully hold off 4 or more football linebacker-sized cops, and sometimes not even feel 2 taser shots fired into them (witnessed while I was fleeing the scene). The third taser shot did the trick in bringing the EDP down, but not until after at least 1 cop got a broken nose..

[Richard B the EMT]

When Rudy Guiliani was still mayor of NYC, on his orders, a midnight "evacuation" of the senior citizen residence buildings known as the Neponsit Home For Adults was conducted, as the place was "in imminent danger of collapse".

I know several of the residents were concentration camp survivors, so I can only guess how they responded to that midnight knock on the door, and the uniformed persons telling them they had to leave immediately. Some of these people were early alzheimers patients, so health law was violated, as there is a specific 30 day "break in period" (my wording, not official) to get them ready for a move.

At least 150 persons, all ambulatory, by the way, were relocated between midnight and the following sunrise, to other facilities and hospitals around the city.

The buildings, in "imminent danger of collapse", now at least 10 years later, still stand, but are unoccupied, and are not sealed off!

[spenac]

sometimes not even feel 2 taser shots fired into them (witnessed while I was fleeing the scene). The third taser shot did the trick in bringing the EDP down

I don't know why but when I read this I pictured Richard running dragging 2 sets of taser wires. :shock: Then as he was being brought down with the third it clicked he was running away from the EDP. :oops: My bad.