Today actually turned out to be a fairly productive day. It did not start out that way though. When my partner and I got on shift, we checked the truck as usual and were just about to go on the air when the supervisor stops us and has us swap out trucks. Then after much flip flopping, we finally end up taking a very old "beater" truck down to another station to swap it out and take their truck. So that killed about 2 hours or so.
We finally get everything straightened out and get our first call. BLS Non-emergent. Fun. We did our fair share of the BLS stuff today. The interesting part about today was that on the way to the floor, as we are going through the required motions to gain access to the rest of the hospital, my partner and I hear "I need a crash cart over here!" coming form triage. We look at eachother and I figure I will give a quick look to see if I can lend a hand. As I turn the corner, I see about 6 nurses, a crash cart, defibrillator, and a guy lying on the floor not looking very good. They just started CPR and placed the pads to find course VFIB. POW! they send 200J through the guys chest and CPR is started again. I cut his clothes off and start looking for a line, so is another RN. 2 minutes later, they look at the moniter (Thanks AHA and ACLS) to find a sinus rhythm. Sweet. Even better we find ROSC, ROSV, and a conscious pt. The doc places an quick EJ and the pt gets 150mg of Amio. He is then swooped off by the staff to the resus room.
That was exciting and the best part was we didn't have to do any type of documentation. Woot! Otherwise today was just a priority 2 day at best. Still, most won't see it, but we acutally helped save a life today. Thanks local hospital for the opportunity to help.
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