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Show up. Pt is very much alive, does not understand what was happening.
Pt was a puppy. Very friendly. Best code ever.
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Arrived to a sobbing family and happy, giggling baby.
Later the mom screams "look there he goes again!!"
Kid was straining to poop.
Definitely worth the lights and sirens on the way over.
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It’s 1874 – Alexander Graham Bell discovers the principle of the telephone and, by experimenting with Thomas Watson, creates the first telephone connection. After this, the world would never be the same.
Some time passes after this invention, and in 1894, Oliver Lodge demonstrates wireless communication over a distance of 150 yards, marking the beginning of cell phone technology as we know it. Then, in 1915, everyone in the US got connected through a transcontinental telephone line.
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Or the cardiac arrest for a person down in a yard in the middle of summer. Pull up and it’s a fire dummy naked in the yard. .
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We won't break down the entire history of phone technology for you; you can read up on it yourself. We just wanted to give you a few dates to show you how far back this technology goes.
Nowadays, we can bet that there is no way you can live without your phone. Even if you wanted to limit your usage, there are a lot of daily functions that require a phone. For instance, payments, photography, health tracking, entertainment, and, of course, communication.
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Got dispatched to a residence for a fall with injury. Met the pt. (20 something male) in a room on the second floor with an obvious leg fracture. Turns out the pt injured his leg doing the “watch me” dance by silentó. Watch me whip… watch me nene. Anyways us and fire that were there had a good laugh at his expense before we loaded him up in the ambulance. In route my partner asks if I want her to encode via radio to the hospital because I was busy with the pt. She encodes “In route to ER with 20 something male with left leg injury post status NENE DANCE.” We get to the hospital and there is literally all the ER nurses waiting for us going “is this the nene patient?”
Poor guy was so embarrassed.
The latter is the reason why phones were invented in the first place. And while phones have evolved beyond just this function, it still remains one of their most important uses to this day.
Usually, a call or a text isn’t anything out of the ordinary. Ultimately, it’s part of your day-to-day life, so you don’t see it as a big deal—unless, of course, the call or text involves something important or serious. Or something happens during the encounter that’s completely out of the ordinary.
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7 years old.
internal *oh s**t*
Dispatch gives us the update a couple minutes later to cancel, pt now breathing, no longer choking, got modified abd thrusts by someone in the house and is now ok.
Pt was a golden labrador. Sounded cute but never made it on scene.
In today’s list, you will find plenty of stories of such calls. All of them were shared online directly as answers to three separate Reddit threads asking about the craziest calls, all posted on r/ems, a community meant for medical first responders. After all, who, if not they, experiences the most odd calls, right?
Stories in this listicle prove the latter argument to be true. Just take a quick look, and you will read about someone mistaking an infant struggling to poop for seizures or having a full-blown python thrown at them. You've got a plethora of the most random things happening you can find.
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Refusal obtained, family was wished a nice day
I stopped at the end of the street and asked my partner “should we stick around to treat when she [ends] him?”
We laughed all the way back to station.
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He was miraculously walking around like he was completely uninjured, but trapped. It was a whole process to get him out.
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Well, generally, it doesn’t seem that these calls were made with ill intent, like a prank, at least not most of them. At the end of the day, such calls are technically illegal, as they fill up the line and might interfere with people who actually need help. Yet, being in a wild situation, just like people from these stories, does not count as a prank call, even if the cases are pretty bizarre.
Have you ever been on a call that could be considered ‘crazy’? Share your story with us!
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We arrive, the driveway, lawn steps, porch are basically glass. There's about 3/8" of ice on everything. There's a multi generational family, all very worked up. We have a bit of communication challenge, as neither my partner nor myself speak mandarin.
We eventually get the story: 75yo patriarch, went out to the car to get meds, slipped and fell (shocker), c o neck and back pain.
Son offers to get meds, runs out the door, hits the ice, face plants and stops at the snowbank on the other side of the road.
We get what we can for info, package patient (in the "everyone gets a board era. As we're about to leave the son gives us the meds and away we go.
A few minutes into the transport, partner (whose teching) asks: "want to know what meds he went to the car for at 0130?" "As a matter of fact, yes. I do." He passes the bottle through the pass through.
Sildenafil.
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We were expecting blood, possible airway issues, trauma.....
It was the most superficial bite ever.
Not the story.
I was translating Spanish to English, but I'm not fluent. I don't know all the words.
Aublita says something to me a few times while I'm talking to Mom, but i just don't understand.
Finally Tia grabs my arm and says 'She dizzy!'
Just as mom passes out in my arms.
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