Saturday, January 15, 2005

Choking

Sixteen hours in the suburbs. Didn't do a whole lot interesting. We were canceled on a fall that the police helped up. We were sent to a nursing home on a priority for a choking, only to be updated that the patient only choked when they tried to fed her. Once we got there, they said she'd been disoriented. Turned out she was hypoglycemic. I got a 24 in under her wrist and slowly pushed in the Dextrose and got her back to alert.

Later, we did a kid who fell playing basketball and got the wind knocked out of him, and a refusal for a man on portable 02 who was running low on 02 and thought we could give him a new tank. Last call of the night -- two minutes before I was due to get off -- was an asthma that got a breathing treatment.