Just Plain Ruff Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Dont feel horrible. Just remember to ask next time. The only time you should feel horrible about a mistake is when you don't recognize you made the mistake.
Christopher.Collins Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Wow, Ive seen it before... but I just totally pulled that out of my a$$ as a guess. I guess it pays off that we in EMS are human and have human companions... though it is tough having freinds/family in thoes kind of positions (i.e on dialysiss). Said scenario have lead to asking many a time (because of neglectful of the friend/patient) when they've done their dialysiss 'cuz some seem to try to determine on their own if its nessecarry that day or not. Just out of curiosity ever find out why she missed the treatments? Not that its nessecarilly our (your) business... but would be interesting to know.
firedoc5 Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 I had something similar one time. Turned out the patient was having a "little chest pain". Her friend next to her gave her one of her own nitro. Of course you know that all that happened was that her BP bottomed out. She was fine. But at first they didn't say anything about the nitro. They were in the balcony which had a very narrow and steep stairway. She weighed about 250lbs. Very difficult to get her down. It wasn't until we got her in the rig when she told us of her taking the nitro. We felt like slapping someone. Did the normal chest pain treatment. Turned out to be indigestion.
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