They are changing the way we are deployed! We used to have text messages and immediately a text came you you would call control on a dedicated number and you would be told if you were required to attend the job. Now this is changing!!
"Why".........
well in remote parts of this county text messages can take 6 or 8 hours to go around the satelite and arrive at their destination................
Now this has had a undesired effect on me, at 2.30am.....
grabbing the nearest pile of clothes, dropping the said phone, stubbing my toe, hitting my head on the door frame all as i stumble through the bedroom and out on to the landing without putting a light on!
Well by now the whole neighbourhood has heard my pain, my children are all stirring, the dog thinks he is going for his morning walk and his huge tail is drumming on every piece of furniture from landing to front door!!!
With the phone to my ear with control saying..
"No hun, sorry we dont have any calls in your area"
I can honestly say the phone was nearly, so very nearly, sent on free flying lessons.............
On returning to bed my partner sighed and turned over to resume snoring!!!!!
Now I am sure i am not the only one who finds a partners snoring sooooooooooooo annoying when coming back to bed after a disturbance in the night.
I digress and my apologies..............
We had a little meeting and its been decided that we will submit a rota via email to control giving our availability. Now thats good because, as soon as the 999 call is received a operator can be on the phone to the CFR on duty, according to the rota, and we can be deployed within seconds.......... a text message will follow confirming details. Now this sounds great, but what happens when things go wrong..........................yep it happened........to me.............yesterday........
The phone rings...............
I answer..."Morning control Zulu XX here"
"Morning,Can you go to a chest pains please"
So i reply..."Yes certainly control", "Can you give me more details please" (.....Like the address!!!!!!!!!!)
There is no answer..........................
"ERRR CONTROL Can i have the address please"
"WHERE DO YOU WANT ME?"
No answer, they have hung up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I am not a professor or a specialist and as yet i do not have any qualification in telepathy.............. so this piece of missing information is rather vital!
I tried to call back but they are obviously busy.
By the time i get in my car and make out towards the main road I receive the text with full details on it so little time was wasted.
Now another thought occurred to me................... Ok, I say my availability is, for example, 18.00 to 23.00 but in that time, i may need to drop off and pick up my kids at various clubs and activities, shop, eat supper or even use the toilet, so maybe the rota may have to be tweaked!!
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I must admit, we've had a telephone system since I've been a responder.
We used to have one phone and two pagers for two kits. We also had a rota and we'd have one or two (or none) responders on call depending on availability.
Our control room has a desk dedicated to CFRs and Helimed, so we'd call in when we were going on call and let them know what time we were on until. As we only had one phone, most of us used our own phones when we were on Kit 2 (Kit 1 had the phone). Also, my phone has handsfree and the one from the Trust doesn't.
The pagers were slow, but before the CFR Desk was manned 24/7 it was useful as the area controllers sometimes forgot they had us as a resource. We could then call it in.
The pagers have died and won't be replaced. The Trust didn't like us using our own phones so now the Unit has bought one for each kit. Still no proper hands-free but at least they have a good speaker function!
Just been out to an arrest. I was first on scene (called to a "collapse" but the guy was in the doorway and not breathing). Shocked twice but no apparent pulse. Crew came and used my defib once before changing to theirs. Eventually got a rhythm but it faded to VT. Shocked again; sinus then VT. Once again; VT going to VF.
Paramedic was trying to canulate but veins were collapsing as zero BP.
One way or another, we worked on the patient for an hour.
When the crew took him away hot, in asystole/VF, I reckon I'd given 1500-2000 compressions.
I'm short, fat & 50-odd so I reckon it's me who needs O2 now - but I'm completely out.
well done for all the hard work on the arrest Markuk. Being first on scene isn't always the easiest when its a public place! But you being able to give those compressions gave him a 100% better chance than those people walking or driving straight past him. I hope you had a good drink after that, or perhaps not if you were still on call! Keep up the good work1
CCR
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