What is the most common call out in your area?

[DwayneEMTP]

Oh Becksdad was that a personal attack in your comment?........shame shame shame :roll: :roll: :roll:

Only if you fainted after seeing the size of his.....Oh..never mind...

Dwayne

[NREMT-Basic]

In this area its:

1. Just not feeling right

2. Elderly falls

3. SOB/chest pain

And as an aside, when I was doing my Basic clinicals in the ER, we had 18 rule out ectopics in a 12 hour. Three were actually ectopic. Makes me wonder if the physican (with whom I worked) tends to label any female abdomial pain as an ectopic. Of course he also happens to be fond of ordering the most expensive scans available. Many moons ago when I had a paticularly severe migraine, he order head ct and informed that I had a brain lesion. My mother was seen by this doc for chest discomfort. After MI rule out, he ordered a VQ scan of her chest and informed her that he had detected a large mass in her left lung. Both of his diagnoses proved incorrect. Maybe thats what happens when a D.O. is the attending rather than an MD. He also tends to prescribe darvocet even for the most intense pain. Sorry about the tangent, but I sort of felt it was related since it was this single doc that had 18 ectopic pregnancies ruled out by expensive scan.

[Michael]

Maybe thats what happens when a D.O. is the attending rather than an MD.

Would you care to elaborate? (I've got no dog in this race; I'm just curious to understand what you mean.)

[spenac]

We get lots of ob's. Lot's of babys born on board. I'd rather be a trauma junky but not blessed that way. :banghead: Probably don't have gear for trauma on the rig anyway. HAHA ok have the gear but how do we use it?

[EMT*Sweet]

We get a nice mix of everything around here...I have heard this is the stroke belt of the US which explains the TIA's, MIA's and every other "IA"..Full Arrest( 3 in a day) We have alot of CP, SOB, AMS ( meth country) not to mention the 2 a.m ingrown toenails, DUI's, DOA's, Domestic cases,MVA's and an occasional hungry vixen (Bipolar) who calls EMS for transport with a host of reasons until transport is in progress and then demands a trip to McD's only to turn truly evil when she doesnt get her way......

Our luck comes in 3's... if we happen to have four it will turn into 6. Never fails .

Unfortunatly though, I have never had an OB call......

[itku2er]

We too have a mixed up bag of calls........but no matter what it is, It runs in clusters........if you have one CP call you will run 2 more or the same with any other call....and of course there is always me at the NH giving my friends here in EMS a little something extra... :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

[spenac]

We get a nice mix of everything around here...I have heard this is the stroke belt of the US which explains the TIA's, MIA's and every other "IA"..Full Arrest( 3 in a day) We have alot of CP, SOB, AMS ( meth country) not to mention the 2 a.m ingrown toenails, DUI's, DOA's, Domestic cases,MVA's and an occasional hungry vixen (Bipolar) who calls EMS for transport with a host of reasons until transport is in progress and then demands a trip to McD's only to turn truly evil when she doesnt get her way......

Our luck comes in 3's... if we happen to have four it will turn into 6. Never fails .

Unfortunatly though, I have never had an OB call......

Unfortunatly though, I have never had an OB call - count your blessings. deliver at the hospital lot less messy. no fun to be slipping and sliding when one pops out in the ambulance. never have enough towels. and those ob kits not much good either.

[steph1030]

well around here its horse and buggy land so we get alot of equestreine accidents,idiots gettin something(usually an arm)stuck in machinery.

then theres the old farts homes....falls,sob's ,chest pain and hypertensions

and then maybe a few mvas

so mixed bag but also very much the same all the time

gotta loove it!!!!

[njmedic1485]

Outside of the various failures of personal responsibility, out main PITA call is for Seizures, All Gods children gots seizures, or so it seems.

In AC we get a lot of casino related maladies, LoL doesn't want to use the scuzzy bus bathroom so she'll forgo her lasix and wind up in failure after a few hours. The fact that alcoholic beverages on the casino floor are free for the asking is a great source of job security, but our biggie is Casino Syncope. The usual suspect will be elderly, equal split between male and female, wearing multiple layers of clothing in an already hot casino sitting with their little legs dependant for 6 or so hours (the average casino bus trip is between 8 and 12 hours), when they realize they haven't been to the buffet yet and they "have a coupon". So up they jump and begin to toddle away when the effect of all that blood pooled in the legs hits and down they drop, since most of them are on beta blockers they remain hypotensive till we get there. It ain't dramatic but it pays the bills.

[JPINFV]

Both of his diagnoses proved incorrect. Maybe thats what happens when a D.O. is the attending rather than an MD.

Because MDs don't make mistakes?

[full disclosure] I honestly don't care too much about the differences between MD education and DO education. I'd take either.[/full disclosure]