calls that still bug me-- summarized for your pleasure
#1-- 6 week old male full-arrest because mom & dad fed baby, laid him on belly to nap on mattress, baby fell off and suffocated. worked and worked the lil guy but too no avail. mom screaming in hospital hallway when we left and then the overhead lullaby started playing on the loudspeakers while she was screaming-- a baby had been born in the nursery.
#2-- 70+ year old male fullarrest. hx of terminal lung cancer. hemorrhaged approx 2 liters of blood on scene. wife stated woke up coughing and the started spewing blood. tried to tube him, and then chunks of lung tissue started bubbling up. sup on scene would not let us call him. everyone was slipping on blood clots. doa to hospital, with lung tissue hanging off our stretcher.
#3-- 2 y.o female, febrile seizure. nasty house. white trash parents. baby had 104F fever, very ill. listless and pale. parents refused transport. "we know what is best for her". febrile seizure fine, but baby very very sick.
#4-- 19 y.o trauma arrest. copying fast and furious. cut car in half. hemo in right lung. ruptured aorta. nothing we could do.
i ran over 1000 calls in a year and a half. and i still vividly remember these four, and many others.
#2-- 70+ year old male fullarrest. hx of terminal lung cancer. hemorrhaged approx 2 liters of blood on scene. wife stated woke up coughing and the started spewing blood. tried to tube him, and then chunks of lung tissue started bubbling up. sup on scene would not let us call him. everyone was slipping on blood clots. doa to hospital, with lung tissue hanging off our stretcher.
#3-- 2 y.o female, febrile seizure. nasty house. white trash parents. baby had 104F fever, very ill. listless and pale. parents refused transport. "we know what is best for her". febrile seizure fine, but baby very very sick.
#4-- 19 y.o trauma arrest. copying fast and furious. cut car in half. hemo in right lung. ruptured aorta. nothing we could do.
i ran over 1000 calls in a year and a half. and i still vividly remember these four, and many others.