This post is a little later, for the weekends I have decided to swap over to night shift, starting at 8pm and finishing at 8am.
Today started with a call to a teenage male having a seizure. On arrival he had stopped fitting and after questioning the family it became apparent he was a known epileptic. I took his obs before we left him on scene with his family.
The next call was a urgent transfer for scans of the pelvis and abdomen, following a suspected pelvic fracture. The patient had been involved in a motorcycle accident. After the scan we brought him back to the emergency department, where the doctors could review the scans.
A bit of a wait before the next call, about 4am in the morning, we were called to an elderly female that was unwell. On arrival breathing and a pulse were absent, and after listening for a heart beat for a full minute I called the time of death. The female was 101 years old.
A couple of hours later we had another call to a sick person, again turning out to be dead on arrival, same procedure as above, this time the female was 67.
A slower day today, hopefully it will pick up over the weekend.
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