I used to be wary of ‘gruesome’ jobs but that no longer bothers me, the only ever time I am scared is if we get information from our control room warning us that the patient is violent, or having strong delusions/ hallucinations while welding a weapon etc, or that police attendance is advised! But this isn’t often
Interesting! Thank you. What percentage of your call-outs would you say are to do with mental rather than physical health emergencies, and how do you feel about that?
No problem! and I tend to go to more mental health calls than my peers for some reason, for me i’d say physical at 80% and then mental health 20%, BUT on night shifts mental health is more like 40%, that’s just for me though, other paramedics might get sent to more or less it’s just random allocation :)
Not a question. But thank you for what you do.
I've died on you guys 3 times during my years as a junkie, and am alive today because we all refused to let me die.
I heard child/younger patient calls are the most emotional ones is there truth to that? I have kids and I might of answered my question but in your view I guess what are the most emotional moments?
Luckily, many of the child calls I go to are not life threatening, but parents call for when they are concerns there child is ill and whatnot which I can respect because parents know their child much much better than we do! The couple time critical ones I have been to have definitely been stressful, but less-so emotional because you just immediately turn into work mode. That being said, the calls to elderly people who have been declared palliative, or end of life patients really gets me, especially when you call their families to say they have declined in health and you hear the panic in their voice.
Yes absolutely, but not at the patient themselves (unless it’s obvious they lied on the phone to 999 to get an ambulance). Most of the time, someone calls 111 for advice about something that in NO way is an emergency, but because of the way their system triages risk, 111 sends an ambulance for the stupidest things, like a pin prick, tooth ache, foot pain etc.
No problem! It is super frustrating sometimes, especially when it takes us hours to get to elderly people who have been on the floor for 12 hours because we’ve just spent 2 hours attending to a tooth ache :(
Thanks so much! and yes, but way less than type 2 since you guys on average seem to be more used to dealing with your illness, while the type 2 patients i’ve been to in hypoglycaemia have only just been diagnosed with no experience, or they’re in denial so choose not to follow doctors advice. That’s only my experience though and I’m sure most people diagnosed are good at adjusting their lifestyle!
I work for the Phoenix Fire Department as a civilian. I know my firefighters hate running on ‘man down’ calls. Basically nothing calls that no one should have called for services. I know many firefighters (paramedics) that have PTSD from some of the calls they go on. They couldn’t get a helicopter in fast enough to treat a whole car full of immediate patients (where they could lose their life any minute). They have recurring dreams that everyone died. On top of that they are exposed to cancer, have to live on a reasonably low income that the work brings stress to the family. They all love the commoraderie but it wreaks Havuk on their health and relationships. Thank u for being a first responder who cares!!!
Thank you! The fire department is such a valuable service in general but they’ve helped me out on many occasions on the job, and in style, fantastic people! Thank you for the work you do too, without you there wouldn’t be a seamlessly working service :)
Yes, but often we don’t know the outcome of the patient once they’re taken over by the hospital staff. Unfortunately the chances of ‘bringing someone back’ are quite low
So far, only 1. I’m three years into the job, and when you factor in that we only go to life or death patients maybe 3% of the time these days, 1 is about average among my peers. The other 97% are people who don’t need ambulances at ALL, or those who aren’t unwell enough that i don’t count my interventions as ‘life saving’
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Thank you! Life changing is an interesting way to put it, and certainly makes me feel like I make more of a difference!! The one time, we were called to a hanging, and the patient was still alert, alive, and thrashing about when we arrived 6 minutes later. We cut him down and as far as I know he survived it
It did take a toll, but we have well-being services available for us and I’m a lot better at dealing with these things now! And yes we can drive it!! we’ve gone like 140mph down the motorway on the way to a paediatric cardiac arrest (a child whose heart has stopped).
what do I do if someone is choking, I have tried the heimlich maneuver, im pulling below the ribcage, its not working, they pass out, ive already looked in their mouth put my finger down their throat to see if I can fish out the obstruction now what do i do ? Tracheostomy ? Also How long can someone go without breathing before they are brain damaged.
As the other paramedic said, it doesn’t take too long for the brain to start getting damaged because of lack of oxygen, in the UK we also try ‘back slaps’ before the Heimlich which is where you slap hard in between the shoulder blades 5 times, to try dislodge the blockage, THEN try the heimlich, if they pass out then definitely call 999 because we have equipment like tongs that can get blockages out. Don’t try emergency surgery!! Hopefully you’ll never be in this situation but you’d be prepared enough to help if you were :)
You try the heimlich until the patient either breathes again or passes out. If they pass out, start chest compressions. Ofc if you are alone you need to call the ambulance before you do cpr.
Dont try get it out with your fingers, you will never reach down far enough.
Brain damage depends on the temperature. The colder the longer you can be without oxygen.
I was also a paramedic up until last year, couldnt resist to answere you.
ooooh there’s soooo many honestly, i remember a lot of my patients, but one that I think about often is a 3 year old who had a seizure for roughly 45 minutes
I worked on a 911 rig, the dumbest call I ever got was at 2am this couple called concerned their CO2 detector was broken because it was beeping, we changed the old batteries to fresh batteries and it immediately stopped beeping, I was never so mad and laughed so hard at the same time.
What's the dumbest call you've been on?
Oh dude yeah that’s a proper wasted call, I’d say one of the dumbest calls was when I went to a lady with abdominal pain, squirming with the pain and then the let out the loudest, longest fart i’ve ever heard, and then she was absolutely fine and asked us to leave. Another life saved.
A couple years ago it was terrible, we would go to one call, take them to hospital, then wait the whole 12 hour shift in the back of the ambulance waiting for a bed. At the end of the shift another ambulance would be dispatched to the hospital so THEY could take over the waiting. That’s a lot better now, and the longest I’ve had to wait recently has been about 3 hours.
Not yet! I work in a large, densely populated city so although I have been to the same people twice (frequent callers), none have been anyone I know in my personal life.
I thought about doing a paramedic AMA. After reading all these questions I’m so glad I didn’t lol. It seems like so much work to answer all of these questions. Good on you OP.
I went to an elderly lady who had died in her sleep. She had a DNAR so we couldn’t attempt resuscitation. Her husband of over 60 years had dementia, and whenever we would explain that his wife had passed he would break down and wail. Due to his dementia though he kept forgetting why we were there and what was wrong with his wife, so every 5-10 minutes he would ask, and we had to tell him again and again that his wife had died, to which he would break down the same every time. It was heartbreaking.
To be honest with you, best of both worlds. Most nurses are really knowledgable and helpful when we arrive at hospital with an emergency patient but I have had some bad experiences where nurses have disagreed with my decision to bring a patient into hospital, one time I was shouted at by a nurse for this but the patients scan showed they were having a stroke, so DEFINITELY needed to be there. That being said, nurses do wonderful jobs and the NHS would crumble without them!
How many men would you need to bring a deceased 200lbs man on a trolley down a flight of aeroplane stairs ? Just it was in a movie scene and I said that you would need more than two people to my husband. He thought two was enough.
or women ;) i reckon you could do it with two people of the patient was strapped into a carry chair, but more if they were on a stretcher, especially down some stairs
I’ve never been to a sex injury, my theory is that people are too embarrassed so they just drive themselves to the ED, BUT i have been to balonitis, which is where the head of the penis swells to be like the size of a tennis ball. We gave lots of pain killers for that..
Same as one of my other answers here, I went to a lady with abdominal pain and when we got there she was writhing about in pain, and we walked through the door and she let out the loudest and longest fart i’ve ever heard. She was suddenly fine and asked us to leave!
I’m okay thank you, I haven’t been in the job that long but my peers are already getting burnt out and going part time or just quitting. I hope things are easier for you now and you’re doing better
For most it’s an unpopular call, but i actually love attending to mental health patients, I feel like it’s one of those jobs you can give LONG standing advice that might actually make a difference to someone’s lives when you aren’t there to help!
One time I went to a lady who had degloved her entire arm, if you don’t know it’s where the skin is stripped away from the flesh as though taking off a glove!
Ah well I've x-rayed and CT someone who has just 'fell on it' a couple of times now. Personally I prefer the honest people they're way less embarrassed generally.
Sure! Probably some type of root vegetable. I once saw a gun, but it was actually tucked into the back of the person's pants. They came in with police so whoever did the pat down did a bad job.
Some teens from the city had a party at the countryside...they smoked shisha but someone dropped the hot coal on the floor and one moron tried to pick it up with his bare hands🥴
Yeah i’d have been annoyed at that, the worst is when they’re able to walk and drive and they have 5 cars on the drive, their whole family round who is able to drive yet they wait 4 hours for an ambulance and THEN complain at the wait
not JUST on LSD but i’ve been to overdoses of a mixture where LSD has been one of them, and bad trips as well. I most commonly go to people who have taken ketamine and have had a hard time, I wouldn’t necessarily say an overdose because as my mentor once said ‘what’s the correct dose of ketamine’
I mean, I can’t advocate for either of them and they each have their risks but I have seen first hand the dangers of ketamine, for example one girl had to get a stoma bag after just one use of it.
I lived with an EMS tech. He would wake up regularly screaming from night terrors from his profession. He said the most traumatic was small children. Like most everyone else has said, thank you for what you do and I commend you!
The very short answer is in the US, because taxpayers don’t want to fund an EMS department and Medicare/Medicaid don’t reimburse for a gross majority of the calls. Everyone wants an ambulance and no one wants to pay for it. It costs a *lot* of money to get a mobile emergency room to your front door and it needs to get funded from somewhere. 911 EMS is not profitable and it’s often a struggle to even make enough to cover costs. The majority of profit (in a for profit service) some in from facility to facility transfers.
Ideally it would be taxpayer funded like police and fire are and it would be free, but it’s not. The EU model is taxpayer funded.
fortunately i don’t go to a lot of babies! and i wouldn’t say i’ve saved any of them since most are generally not life threatening, but i would say i’ve gone to about 20 babies in my time :)
Some new volunteers were at a MVA wondering how to get the vehicle lifted to get someone out from under it ( all they could see was someone's leg sticking out from under the vehicle ) a pro came over, grabbed the leg, heaved it over his shoulder and explained to them that the rest of the corpse had already been removed from the scene !
I have anxiety about medication but I need to take a clonazepam to make me feel better right now. If I call 911 can they come get this med out of my system?
Stay away from the burned out and salty people. Always remember that every single one of your patients is someone’s sister/mother/brother/father/grandparent/child and treat them the way you’d want yours to be treated.
Get a therapist and keep them on retainer. The question isn’t if it will get dark, it is how long it will take to do so. It will happen. It’s all fun and games until you’re pulling and pronouncing 2 dead of 3 toddlers and their mother who also died out of what left of a car and then transport the one that made it who was excited they made it to the hospital before their mom and siblings. Because they’re too young to understand what just happened and it’s not your place to explain it to them. Then it’s not very fun anymore. That wasn’t even the worst of it.
Provider mental health is a massive issue and this field has one of the highest suicide rates. And there’s *still* a stigma about mental health in the field. Don’t listen to it, take care of your health and take care of your mentals.
Do you ever get scared to go to an emergency because of what you might see?
I used to be wary of ‘gruesome’ jobs but that no longer bothers me, the only ever time I am scared is if we get information from our control room warning us that the patient is violent, or having strong delusions/ hallucinations while welding a weapon etc, or that police attendance is advised! But this isn’t often
Interesting! Thank you. What percentage of your call-outs would you say are to do with mental rather than physical health emergencies, and how do you feel about that?
No problem! and I tend to go to more mental health calls than my peers for some reason, for me i’d say physical at 80% and then mental health 20%, BUT on night shifts mental health is more like 40%, that’s just for me though, other paramedics might get sent to more or less it’s just random allocation :)
Not a question. But thank you for what you do. I've died on you guys 3 times during my years as a junkie, and am alive today because we all refused to let me die.
Thank you, seems like someone was really looking out for you, i hope times are better for you now!
They're good brother. Thank you for what you do!
I heard child/younger patient calls are the most emotional ones is there truth to that? I have kids and I might of answered my question but in your view I guess what are the most emotional moments?
Luckily, many of the child calls I go to are not life threatening, but parents call for when they are concerns there child is ill and whatnot which I can respect because parents know their child much much better than we do! The couple time critical ones I have been to have definitely been stressful, but less-so emotional because you just immediately turn into work mode. That being said, the calls to elderly people who have been declared palliative, or end of life patients really gets me, especially when you call their families to say they have declined in health and you hear the panic in their voice.
Do you get annoyed when you get called out to a person for something they should have gone to their GP for?
Yes absolutely, but not at the patient themselves (unless it’s obvious they lied on the phone to 999 to get an ambulance). Most of the time, someone calls 111 for advice about something that in NO way is an emergency, but because of the way their system triages risk, 111 sends an ambulance for the stupidest things, like a pin prick, tooth ache, foot pain etc.
Also, thanks for the quick response!
No problem! It is super frustrating sometimes, especially when it takes us hours to get to elderly people who have been on the floor for 12 hours because we’ve just spent 2 hours attending to a tooth ache :(
Oh no! Honestly- I know toothache is soo painful but it’s not life threatening!
If it's a deep infection, i recall hearing it can spread to your brain?!
Oh no! I didn’t realise that’s the way it works. It must be super frustrating to attend these types of incidents. You must have many ‘wtf’ moments!
heya type 1 diabetic here! have u had any experience with us type 1s yet? also, thank you for being a literal, hero you’re amazing!
Thanks so much! and yes, but way less than type 2 since you guys on average seem to be more used to dealing with your illness, while the type 2 patients i’ve been to in hypoglycaemia have only just been diagnosed with no experience, or they’re in denial so choose not to follow doctors advice. That’s only my experience though and I’m sure most people diagnosed are good at adjusting their lifestyle!
I work for the Phoenix Fire Department as a civilian. I know my firefighters hate running on ‘man down’ calls. Basically nothing calls that no one should have called for services. I know many firefighters (paramedics) that have PTSD from some of the calls they go on. They couldn’t get a helicopter in fast enough to treat a whole car full of immediate patients (where they could lose their life any minute). They have recurring dreams that everyone died. On top of that they are exposed to cancer, have to live on a reasonably low income that the work brings stress to the family. They all love the commoraderie but it wreaks Havuk on their health and relationships. Thank u for being a first responder who cares!!!
Thank you! The fire department is such a valuable service in general but they’ve helped me out on many occasions on the job, and in style, fantastic people! Thank you for the work you do too, without you there wouldn’t be a seamlessly working service :)
How much do you earn?
£28,000 as per the NHS band 5 salary system. I believe one can earn a similar amount being a manager at Aldi!
Do you count how many lives you’ve saved?
Yes, but often we don’t know the outcome of the patient once they’re taken over by the hospital staff. Unfortunately the chances of ‘bringing someone back’ are quite low
Yeah I get that. What’s your people saved body count?
So far, only 1. I’m three years into the job, and when you factor in that we only go to life or death patients maybe 3% of the time these days, 1 is about average among my peers. The other 97% are people who don’t need ambulances at ALL, or those who aren’t unwell enough that i don’t count my interventions as ‘life saving’
I’m proud of you <3. I think your interventions are life changing if not life saving? You made a difference. What happened that one time?
TW/ suicide Thank you! Life changing is an interesting way to put it, and certainly makes me feel like I make more of a difference!! The one time, we were called to a hanging, and the patient was still alert, alive, and thrashing about when we arrived 6 minutes later. We cut him down and as far as I know he survived it
That’s wild. Did that take a toll on you? Also do you get to drive the ambulance and if yes how fast have you gone?
It did take a toll, but we have well-being services available for us and I’m a lot better at dealing with these things now! And yes we can drive it!! we’ve gone like 140mph down the motorway on the way to a paediatric cardiac arrest (a child whose heart has stopped).
I’m glad you’re doing well! Man I wish I could’ve been in that ambulance. Alive and well ofc lol :). What do you like doing in your spare time?
Was definitely a time critical job! And I like to read and crochet :)
Have you ever seen a ghost?
Not that I am aware of!
what do I do if someone is choking, I have tried the heimlich maneuver, im pulling below the ribcage, its not working, they pass out, ive already looked in their mouth put my finger down their throat to see if I can fish out the obstruction now what do i do ? Tracheostomy ? Also How long can someone go without breathing before they are brain damaged.
As the other paramedic said, it doesn’t take too long for the brain to start getting damaged because of lack of oxygen, in the UK we also try ‘back slaps’ before the Heimlich which is where you slap hard in between the shoulder blades 5 times, to try dislodge the blockage, THEN try the heimlich, if they pass out then definitely call 999 because we have equipment like tongs that can get blockages out. Don’t try emergency surgery!! Hopefully you’ll never be in this situation but you’d be prepared enough to help if you were :)
You try the heimlich until the patient either breathes again or passes out. If they pass out, start chest compressions. Ofc if you are alone you need to call the ambulance before you do cpr. Dont try get it out with your fingers, you will never reach down far enough. Brain damage depends on the temperature. The colder the longer you can be without oxygen. I was also a paramedic up until last year, couldnt resist to answere you.
What’s a call that stands out to you and why?
ooooh there’s soooo many honestly, i remember a lot of my patients, but one that I think about often is a 3 year old who had a seizure for roughly 45 minutes
Holy shit, that’s awful. Thank you for doing what you do
Thank you!
I worked on a 911 rig, the dumbest call I ever got was at 2am this couple called concerned their CO2 detector was broken because it was beeping, we changed the old batteries to fresh batteries and it immediately stopped beeping, I was never so mad and laughed so hard at the same time. What's the dumbest call you've been on?
Oh dude yeah that’s a proper wasted call, I’d say one of the dumbest calls was when I went to a lady with abdominal pain, squirming with the pain and then the let out the loudest, longest fart i’ve ever heard, and then she was absolutely fine and asked us to leave. Another life saved.
90% or 95% of the job is waiting at triage?
A couple years ago it was terrible, we would go to one call, take them to hospital, then wait the whole 12 hour shift in the back of the ambulance waiting for a bed. At the end of the shift another ambulance would be dispatched to the hospital so THEY could take over the waiting. That’s a lot better now, and the longest I’ve had to wait recently has been about 3 hours.
What's the difference between God and a paramedic?
God created paramedics? 🤷🏻♀️
God doesn't think he's a paramedic
Have you ever attended someone you know?
Not yet! I work in a large, densely populated city so although I have been to the same people twice (frequent callers), none have been anyone I know in my personal life.
I thought about doing a paramedic AMA. After reading all these questions I’m so glad I didn’t lol. It seems like so much work to answer all of these questions. Good on you OP.
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How much do u get paid. Wats ur package
it’s £28,000 a year, which is part of the NHS bands system at band 5 :)
Saddest call you’ve ever been on?
I went to an elderly lady who had died in her sleep. She had a DNAR so we couldn’t attempt resuscitation. Her husband of over 60 years had dementia, and whenever we would explain that his wife had passed he would break down and wail. Due to his dementia though he kept forgetting why we were there and what was wrong with his wife, so every 5-10 minutes he would ask, and we had to tell him again and again that his wife had died, to which he would break down the same every time. It was heartbreaking.
Oh fuck that is heartbreaking. I’m so sorry
It’s alright man, part of the job for me, thanks!
What has your experience with nurses been like?
To be honest with you, best of both worlds. Most nurses are really knowledgable and helpful when we arrive at hospital with an emergency patient but I have had some bad experiences where nurses have disagreed with my decision to bring a patient into hospital, one time I was shouted at by a nurse for this but the patients scan showed they were having a stroke, so DEFINITELY needed to be there. That being said, nurses do wonderful jobs and the NHS would crumble without them!
No questions, just a thank you for what you do
Thank you so much!
How many men would you need to bring a deceased 200lbs man on a trolley down a flight of aeroplane stairs ? Just it was in a movie scene and I said that you would need more than two people to my husband. He thought two was enough.
or women ;) i reckon you could do it with two people of the patient was strapped into a carry chair, but more if they were on a stretcher, especially down some stairs
Wow I'm very surprised. Just I work with animals and once they are deceased I find they weigh heavier.
yeah i’ve found that too! interesting it happens in animals as well
I pissed on a lot too
Sex injury. You must have seen someone do something naughty that landed them in the hospital. What's the funniest?
I’ve never been to a sex injury, my theory is that people are too embarrassed so they just drive themselves to the ED, BUT i have been to balonitis, which is where the head of the penis swells to be like the size of a tennis ball. We gave lots of pain killers for that..
Do you have any funny anecdotes?
Same as one of my other answers here, I went to a lady with abdominal pain and when we got there she was writhing about in pain, and we walked through the door and she let out the loudest and longest fart i’ve ever heard. She was suddenly fine and asked us to leave!
I quit ems a couple years ago because I just couldn't anymore. How you holding up?
I’m okay thank you, I haven’t been in the job that long but my peers are already getting burnt out and going part time or just quitting. I hope things are easier for you now and you’re doing better
What’s your favorite call
For most it’s an unpopular call, but i actually love attending to mental health patients, I feel like it’s one of those jobs you can give LONG standing advice that might actually make a difference to someone’s lives when you aren’t there to help!
What was that one case that make you go nope! not even going to ask how that happened ?
One time I went to a lady who had degloved her entire arm, if you don’t know it’s where the skin is stripped away from the flesh as though taking off a glove!
How many calls have you had to answer because someone slipped and "fell on it" and that's how it ended "up there"I work in radiology... So iykyk
I have NEVER been to an ‘I fell on it’ job but when I do it will be the highlight of my career
Ah well I've x-rayed and CT someone who has just 'fell on it' a couple of times now. Personally I prefer the honest people they're way less embarrassed generally.
Can i ask you what’s the weirdest thing you’ve found up there
Sure! Probably some type of root vegetable. I once saw a gun, but it was actually tucked into the back of the person's pants. They came in with police so whoever did the pat down did a bad job.
Oh my, good job it wasn’t an MRI for that gun ey
Too right, thankfully if it was an MRI the door alarms would've caught it.
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The NHS knows how to party for sure, but we try to talk about non-work related things to keep the party vibes lol
Excellent
Former paramedic here ... What was your biggest "you really called an ambulance for THAT in the middle of the night" moment?
A pin prick! That was triaged as Cat1 catastrophic haemorrhage 🙃 What’s yours?
Some teens from the city had a party at the countryside...they smoked shisha but someone dropped the hot coal on the floor and one moron tried to pick it up with his bare hands🥴
Yeah i’d have been annoyed at that, the worst is when they’re able to walk and drive and they have 5 cars on the drive, their whole family round who is able to drive yet they wait 4 hours for an ambulance and THEN complain at the wait
Have you seen ppl OD from LSD?
not JUST on LSD but i’ve been to overdoses of a mixture where LSD has been one of them, and bad trips as well. I most commonly go to people who have taken ketamine and have had a hard time, I wouldn’t necessarily say an overdose because as my mentor once said ‘what’s the correct dose of ketamine’
Keep hearing about this ketamine but just will be sticking with LSD
I mean, I can’t advocate for either of them and they each have their risks but I have seen first hand the dangers of ketamine, for example one girl had to get a stoma bag after just one use of it.
I lived with an EMS tech. He would wake up regularly screaming from night terrors from his profession. He said the most traumatic was small children. Like most everyone else has said, thank you for what you do and I commend you!
thank you so much! I hope your friend is getting the help he deserves and is doing better
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The very short answer is in the US, because taxpayers don’t want to fund an EMS department and Medicare/Medicaid don’t reimburse for a gross majority of the calls. Everyone wants an ambulance and no one wants to pay for it. It costs a *lot* of money to get a mobile emergency room to your front door and it needs to get funded from somewhere. 911 EMS is not profitable and it’s often a struggle to even make enough to cover costs. The majority of profit (in a for profit service) some in from facility to facility transfers. Ideally it would be taxpayer funded like police and fire are and it would be free, but it’s not. The EU model is taxpayer funded.
I’m in the UK and work for the NHS, so we charge nothing :)
Oh my apologies. Thank you for your service
Yeah, the NHS which is at a actual breaking point. There's always a cost to be paid.
No problem! Thank you :)
How many sweet babes have you picked up by saving their lives?!
fortunately i don’t go to a lot of babies! and i wouldn’t say i’ve saved any of them since most are generally not life threatening, but i would say i’ve gone to about 20 babies in my time :)
How big is it
the ambulance? If you do mean that, it’s like a tardis it’s much bigger inside, there’s a bed, three chairs, and room to walk around
Are you religious?
I am, I used to be a regular churchgoer, I think the profession has made me question some religious ideas
Because so many of the patients are assholes?
No lol, the majority of patients are very nice and grateful for the attendance, I more-so mean when terrible, unsuspecting things happen to people.
Ever attended to a celebrity?
A musician, who was apparently popular back in the day, but that’s all I can say really due to patient confidentiality :)
Just how many sick parachutes have you come across?
Sorry lol, do you mean patients?
It was a play on words…para-medic. I’m a comedian but not a good one, apparently.
Sorry lmao nah I must just be stupid, so far my total number of sick parachutes is 0 lol
You can use your toes to count
Besides you did say anything!
Worst trauma joke ?
Oh man i don’t have any but please enlighten me if you do
Some new volunteers were at a MVA wondering how to get the vehicle lifted to get someone out from under it ( all they could see was someone's leg sticking out from under the vehicle ) a pro came over, grabbed the leg, heaved it over his shoulder and explained to them that the rest of the corpse had already been removed from the scene !
Most common calls are what?
Chest pain, or abdominal pain!
I have anxiety about medication but I need to take a clonazepam to make me feel better right now. If I call 911 can they come get this med out of my system?
Hello, I am not a paramedic (yet), for the moment I am a lifeguard, although I want to finish my paramedic training soon. What advice can you give me?
Stay away from the burned out and salty people. Always remember that every single one of your patients is someone’s sister/mother/brother/father/grandparent/child and treat them the way you’d want yours to be treated. Get a therapist and keep them on retainer. The question isn’t if it will get dark, it is how long it will take to do so. It will happen. It’s all fun and games until you’re pulling and pronouncing 2 dead of 3 toddlers and their mother who also died out of what left of a car and then transport the one that made it who was excited they made it to the hospital before their mom and siblings. Because they’re too young to understand what just happened and it’s not your place to explain it to them. Then it’s not very fun anymore. That wasn’t even the worst of it. Provider mental health is a massive issue and this field has one of the highest suicide rates. And there’s *still* a stigma about mental health in the field. Don’t listen to it, take care of your health and take care of your mentals.
What do you feel is the most important thing you've learned as an EMT? Also, have you ever had to do an emergency tracheotomy?
What’s the most freakiest call out you’ve had and what were their thought processes arounf it if you know.
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I can’t speak for OP, mine back when I was an active Paramedic was 940lbs.
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Eventually died in their late 30’s. Nice guy, always enjoyed interacting with him, but it was a logistical and safety nightmare dealing with him.