Comments on: One Adam-12, One Adam-12

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:18:39 +0000

We get calls like this all of the time. We just tend to leave them there – no patient found.

We have some people (often management) who insist that if there was a 911 call, that means there was a patient and appropriate refusal paperwork needs to be signed by the patient following a full exam and contact with medical command. Fortunately, these people are usually kept away from sharp objects and heavy equipment. Unfortunately, they are usually promoted to keep them from harming patients with their own hands.

By: ERP

ERP — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:25:22 +0000

Awesome. Hope they did not break some ribs in their enthusiasm.

By: Harassed

Harassed — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:51:20 +0000

Who naps face down? Unless, you know, they were lying on their arms in a classic, comfy outdoor napping position and that wasn’t picked up by the person that rolled them.

By: M Student

M Student — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:33:40 +0000

I’m sure they checked for a pulse, but a crash cart (which contains instruments and medications for dozens of potential situations) would be brought to bedside for any unresponsive patient, pulse or no pulse.

By: KT

KT — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:07:41 +0000

Checking pulse is no longer standard during resuscitation, at least in Australia.

By: midwest woman

midwest woman — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:49:47 +0000

have to add we’ve got RTV (retro tv) channel in the River City..emergency followed by adam 12 and the big finish is dragnet. Followed by Daniel Boone..rest in peace, Fess Parker. I’m hooked.

By: Soronel Haetir

Soronel Haetir — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:39:14 +0000

The best entry from the local police blotter I’ve seen was “A caller reported a crack extending all the way across the highway”. Understand, it’s called a highway, but it’s a two lane road, and not a very wide one at that. It’s not even paved the entire length.

By: igloodoc

igloodoc — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:00:17 +0000

Hey WC.. did you pull out the yardsticks to make sure the anesthesia dood was inside the 250 yard EMTALA mandated extension of the Emergency Roo.. umm dur… Department?
Or as we lovingly call it … the phone-bone zone, (’cause anyone in the 250 yard ED radius using a cellphone seems to trip, fall and break something).
Our phone-bone zone covers 3 lanes of a 6 lane freeway and a suspected meth house (explaining a lot of the falls, and the medicaideurs with cellphones). Dragging our gurney into freeway traffic is a bit like the old video game Frogger.

Yup. The best medical system the lawyers can give us… just wait until the healthcare bill passes…

By: midwest woman

midwest woman — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:56:42 +0000

Martin Milner was also one of the leads in Route 66….sigh

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:46:29 +0000

I’m an RN working in a busy Emergency department in a new hospital (lots of landscaping and fountains / pools).

Standing out in the ambulance bay last summer chatting with my buddy when we get a panicked call from the admitting clerk (who’s office over looks a pond)saying that she can see a patient laying in the pool. No word if they were face down or not, but better to play it safe and check before they actually call a code blue for a potential drowning.

We jump in his ambulance and drive up to the area to have a look see and there was a patient in the pond… laying there, surrounded by family… soaking her feet in the water, enjoying the sun.

** head shake**