Most awkward/weird place for a call?

[hammerpcp]

Go on, tell us how you really feel.

Like I stated in my post, I am rather sure that drugs played a part in this little fiasco. As far as the orgasm comment "that is what SHE (the pt.) told us". Now whether or not she had one, I don't know and frankly I don't give a flying f*ck!! All I know is that up until that time we had NEVER encountered this type of response, so EVERYONE on scene was quite unsure of what to do with regards to the well being of the patient. Maybe she was sexually perverse and just craved the attention, again I don't know and I don't really care.

However since we were unfamiliar with this type of situtation and since we are not permitted to remove any type of foreign body regardless of the type of foreign object it is or where on the body or in this case in the body the penetration occured, medical control was informed and the physician on the other end of the phone informed us to "cut it" and transport her and the foreign body to the hospital for further evaluation and treatment.

This incident also occured 9 or so f*cking years ago, when I first got involved in EMS. I was a Basic, and this type of medical / trauma emergency was not taught to us. So maybe that will make you get off my case about it.

However, if you still feel opiniated about this whole post and you still want to call it bulls*it, then that's your opnion. But you know what they say...."Opinions are like &*%holes, everybody has one"

Frankly I don't care about yours.

You've spent a whole lot of energy on something you don't care about.

[Just Plain Ruff]

For the sanity of the group as well as tempers, take this to PM please. I've been told in the past to take it to PM's so I'd advise you to do the same.

You'll find that once you take it to PM's the novelty of posting negative nasty remarks back and forth will dissipate after the first pm.

[hammerpcp]

For the sanity of the group as well as tempers, take this to PM please. I've been told in the past to take it to PM's so I'd advise you to do the same.

You'll find that once you take it to PM's the novelty of posting negative nasty remarks back and forth will dissipate after the first pm.

Thanks for the advice, but no thanks.

[Just Plain Ruff]

so you are going to keep this going hmmmmm okie dokie. I always like a good argument even though the argument is a silly one.

Have at it.

[Scaramedic]

My most awkward and irritating call of all time, it's a long story so get a cup of coffee before you start.

We get a call for a trauma at a concrete company on the outskirts of the city. We arrive on scene first and are directed to the rotary kiln area of the plant. For those of you who do not know what a rotary kiln looks like here is a picture for you.

So we arrive at the base of this thing, its about three stories high and there is about 8 inches of lime and concrete dust on the ground we have to walk through. We are told that an employee was in one of the kilns servicing it and a big chunk of hardened lime fell from the top, smacked the patient in the head and knocked him out. He is conscious now and the site EMT Basic is with the patient. Fire has still not arrived on scene so I grab my equipment and head up the stairs with the plant supervisor. My partner is going to wait for Fire and come up with them.

I head up multiple flights of narrow metal stairs with the plant supervisor, after a few minutes we arrive on a platform at the end of the kiln. The patient is in one of three kilns, the two kilns right next to it are still running. Lime dust is everywhere, its about 95F that day and on this platform its about 110F. My patient is lying on the bottom of the kiln, which is a long steel tube about 150+ feet long full of more lime with very little light from a few lightbulbs strung about. I have to crawl through this little hatch, slide down a 2X6 and crawl through more lime dust. The plant EMT has the patient boarded and is providing excellent care. I get to the patient and go ahead with my assessment, he is A&O, C/O head and neck pain with no obvious bleeding or trauma. As I am assessing I keep looking out towards the hatch and still do not see anyone but workers from the plant, no Fire and no partner.

:dontknow:

We get the patient out thru the little hatch door and I get out onto the platform. As I get out I notice that there is no one but plant employees on the platform and lining the stairs. I ask the supervisor if Fire has arrived, he says they have but his employees will not let them come up. I asked him why and he stated his employees will handle everything. So here is the situation I am covered head to to in lime dust, I am alone, I have a patient I need to get down to the rig and I have about 15-20 plant employees all around me. I tell the plant supervisor he is responsible if anything goes wrong when we take the patient down, he assumes responsiblilty for the situation and down we go. In my opinion as far as the handling the patient the employees did an amazing job, they brought the patient down the stairs safely and they were not confrontational to me and were more than willing to do anything I said, except allowing Fire to assist.

We slowly brought the patient down to ground level, as we exited the building I found an amazing site. There were two fire trucks, multiple fire Chief vehicles, multiple Sheriff's department vehicles and a whole bunch of pissed off people on both sides with SO keeping them separate. Apparently what I missed was that when FD arrived the plant employees physically stopped them from coming up the stairs. The FD guys were told that the employees would handle the patient, needless to say this pissed off fire who called more units and the Sheriffs Department. It quickly turned into a giant clusterf*#k that I am very glad I missed. As I exit the building I am immediately hit with a FD Chief and a Deputy who want to know if the situation endangered my patient. I told them honestly it did not and that the employees did fine. Once outside we clean as much of the lime off the patient as we can with dry towels, it was pointless trying to do it anywhere else. I wish I would have done the same.

We load up and take the patient to the hospital without any further complications. Oh wait there was the problem of the lime (diluted though it was) starting to burn on my skin because I was sweating so much. We get in the ER and turn over the patient, the ER Doc grabs me and takes me to the ER doc locker room and orders me to strip so he can brush the lime off me and then has me take a shower. I put on scrubs, the Doc checks me out real quick for burns and I am released to return to cooperate. Once back at cooperate we turn over the unit for decontamination, everything I took up was covered in lime as well as the back of the unit. We then had to write incident reports on what happened and statements for the Sheriff's office.

So lets run down what happened on this call.

1. Lime/concrete dust in every aspect of my body.

2. A war between FD and the concrete company was initiated.

3. I am afraid of heights, sorry I failed to mention that above.

4. Ungodly heat and cramped spaces, both of which I hate.

5. A Doc I work with had me get naked and helped brush me off. :oops:

6. A ton of paperwork which I hate most of all.

The situation actually resulted in several meetings between all the agencies involved but no charges were brought against the plant employees. A policy was written that any calls at this plant will be dispatched with the Sheriff's office. I ended up with some really minor burns on my arms and legs. Overall a pain in the ass and very awkward call.

[Eydawn]

Scara... didn't you have any kind of covering suit or protective clothing? If you didn't, did the plant employees? Lol... hazmat is not your friend, bro! Sounds like it was a cluster and no mistake, ha! What a story though! You get burned?

Weirdest call I've had to date... has got to be the construction worker who got hit by the forklift. Fella's lucky that it didn't skewer him... got him subscapular, knocked him down really hard. Best part: he didn't completely fit on the backboard, too tall, so his feet stuck off the end of it. He was AAOX4, no problems other than some bruising and tenderness. I still can't fathom how that thing didn't completely penetrate his back, however. It hit at just the right height and just the right direction to. Someone was lucky.

Funnier call: 3am psych transport from the local ED to a local psych unit at another hospital. Seems the patient's fiancee had broken things off with him earlier that afternoon, so he pointed a shotgun at himself to scare her a little bit. Unfortunately, she called the sheriff and the guy ended up in the EMS system... the whole time, he just had this hangdog look like his day couldn't get any worse, and he glared at me every time I had to take vitals (3x sets, lucky us!)... I wanted to laugh because come on, dumbass... if you don't want to go to the hospital, DON'T POINT SHOTGUNS AT YOURSELF.... durrh! Betting he won't do that again.

Wendy

NREMT-B

CO EMT-B; MI EMT-B

[Just Plain Ruff]

Scaramedic, what a incredible story. I don't envy you especially with the paperwork

My time in the coal chute of the powerplant was cool. I was covered with Black coal dust. I never even expected that there would be so much dust but i was covered with coal dust and ended up coughing up some really nasty black stuff for about a week.

No residual effects, cough cough, that I can see.

[hammerpcp]

so you are going to keep this going hmmmmm okie dokie. I always like a good argument even though the argument is a silly one.

Have at it.

Ruffems,

I am pretty sure we don't need your permission to have a discussion..........and if you believe it is a silly one, there is no need for you to read it.

That was kind of Ouch. If that sounded harsh, I apologize, but take it for what it's worth. Obviously we do not agree about what we deem "silly", and what is worth our time.

There are two things I can not tolerate, liars and idiots. If it falls on my shoulders to question the creditability of a poster while educating them, and other readers about anatomical and physiological improbabilities, so be it.

Scaramedics story was obviously completely made up. :wink:

[Just Plain Ruff]

Now hammer No offense taken. Check your pm's

[cotjockey]

When I was a student, we got diaptched to a "man down...unknown if conscious or breathing." We responded to the address and were directed to the shed in the back yard. We go to the back yard and find a shed, about 6X6, made of fancy bricks to match the house. There are extension cords going from the house to the shed. We opened the door to the shed and find a naked man on the floor...unconscious, not breathing. An empty bottle of Benadryl (100 tablets) and a stack of porn magazines is lying next to him. He had been dead for a while. There was a refrigerator, a space heater, and a tv plugged into the extension cord. This man lived in the shed becasue his parents were scared of him, but didn't want to make him move out, but also didn't want him in their house.