Monday, July 25, 2005
Overnights at Work and at Van Gogh's
This week was once again full of surprises.
I drove an ALS (Advanced Life Support) rig on Tuesday for the first time. What does that mean? Nothing except that I rode with a Paramedic on an extra long tour. For those that may not know the difference: a Paramadic has some controlled substances he can administer, and a couple of cool toys for maintaining IV's, intubation, and defribillation, like a LifePak 12 (cardiac monitor).
I also drove a medic on the overnight tour on Friday morning (which to me still seems like Thursday night). That tour went awesome, and the medic was teaching how to use all those advanced gizmos.
On Friday night we had a going away party for one of our supervisors and that went well. Gino, who's in charge of Operations, barbequed right in our garage and we all hung out until past midnight. People got a little drunk and started break-dancing after some one threw on the old-school jams. I brought in my poker chips and we played some Texas Hold 'Em.
Soto and I slept over at Salty's to ensure we'd all get to work on time the next morning.
Ryan and I had a busy tour on Saturday which included driving a patient from Brighton Beach all the way to Forest Hills... on a priority one status. It had come over as Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath. The call should have been an ALS job, however we were the closest, available unit. Without the LifePak and the proper training we could only do so much for our patient. His son, who is a doctor at LIJ in Forest Hills told me I was to either drive him to Forest Hills or leave him in his apartment.
Next time, I'll leave him in the apartment. Once we got to the hospital, we discoverd he'd been having (or had had) an MI. Luckily the patient never crashed on us or it could have been our careers. Never again.
That night, Cindy, Salty, Soto, Ryan, his fiancé Nika and I went to Van Gogh's and had a great time together. It was a good end to a long, long week.
I'm off to bed now.
Doc Out.
@ July 25, 2005 3:34 PM said:
Hey Dave... You wanted me to comment but I already know all this stuff. Plus we've already talked about it. :p
-Spindee-
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I drove an ALS (Advanced Life Support) rig on Tuesday for the first time. What does that mean? Nothing except that I rode with a Paramedic on an extra long tour. For those that may not know the difference: a Paramadic has some controlled substances he can administer, and a couple of cool toys for maintaining IV's, intubation, and defribillation, like a LifePak 12 (cardiac monitor).
I also drove a medic on the overnight tour on Friday morning (which to me still seems like Thursday night). That tour went awesome, and the medic was teaching how to use all those advanced gizmos.
On Friday night we had a going away party for one of our supervisors and that went well. Gino, who's in charge of Operations, barbequed right in our garage and we all hung out until past midnight. People got a little drunk and started break-dancing after some one threw on the old-school jams. I brought in my poker chips and we played some Texas Hold 'Em.
Soto and I slept over at Salty's to ensure we'd all get to work on time the next morning.
Ryan and I had a busy tour on Saturday which included driving a patient from Brighton Beach all the way to Forest Hills... on a priority one status. It had come over as Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath. The call should have been an ALS job, however we were the closest, available unit. Without the LifePak and the proper training we could only do so much for our patient. His son, who is a doctor at LIJ in Forest Hills told me I was to either drive him to Forest Hills or leave him in his apartment.
Next time, I'll leave him in the apartment. Once we got to the hospital, we discoverd he'd been having (or had had) an MI. Luckily the patient never crashed on us or it could have been our careers. Never again.
That night, Cindy, Salty, Soto, Ryan, his fiancé Nika and I went to Van Gogh's and had a great time together. It was a good end to a long, long week.
I'm off to bed now.
Doc Out.
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@ July 25, 2005 3:34 PM said:
Hey Dave... You wanted me to comment but I already know all this stuff. Plus we've already talked about it. :p
-Spindee-
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