Firstly my apologies for being away from the scene for so long!
I have changed my job and now work for one of the emergency services........................ Bet you know which one!!
6 weeks clinical training, 3 weeks driving and 1 week blue light driving and its all happened really fast! Not to mention the portfolio and other underpining knowledge stuff its all in a haze!!
Now i haven't attended as many CFR jobs as i have wanted to but its a nightmare fitting everything in............ enough excuses ..........
Had a call yesterday which took me to my boundary ............... thats the maximum distance from my house i can travel in 8 mins but i offered my services and control were happy for me to go.......
When i arrived i collected my bag and defib and made for the address........ I was met by the ladys husband who told me to go up the stairs,
he said
"I have just man handled her upstairs to bed" !!!
" she is very difficult to move you know"
"she is in the first bedroom"!
"I took her to bed after phoning for a ambulance".................
Now i have a question ??????
Why, oh Why.......
Do people struggle with bendy, twisty stairs haul themselves, or get their partners to, get them into bed when they feel unwell enough for an ambulance!!
WHY!!!!
This is something which has me beat from day one of working with poorly people.
Now I know this person was a poorly bean and needed to go to hospital, although in my role a a CFR I would not communicate this to the patient, I administered Oxygen and I could hear the far off wails of a siren and i gathered some history from the husband.
It wasn't long before the ambulance arrived and i was able to hand over my patient to the attendant.
The other half of the crew was despatch for the carry chair because the patient was off legs!
I moved the flowers and paperwork from the stairs to help the crew when they brought her safetly down.
She was packed off to hospital and I wish her a speedy recovery.
I know in the victorian era, if you were ill you went to bed!! But this is 2008 and if someone is ill, ill enough to call an emergency ambulance, please please do not take them to bed, make them comfortable where they are................. unless they are already in bed of course!........
XXXX
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This is my blog as a community first Responder. It is my own experiences and is not neccessarily those of South Central Ambulance Service or its personel. All names used are made up on the day of writing!.
1 comment:
Thank you for this insight.
Being a CFR and having seen this "move them to bed" mentality you mention. I think it’s down to a few things. One they just want do something helpful and this is the only thing they can think of not being medically trained or it might be to preserve a bit of dignity for the patient.
Nice idea for a blog, well done.
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