Dungan362

Our policy is to transport. We don't give an intoxicated person the opportunity to say no. If we are called they go! Once we didn't transport an intoxicated person and we wound up back there in an hour, picking up a person who had a head injury due to getting up from the floor, falling back to the floor striking a table and knocking himself out... We then had to transport him by copter to the nearest trauma center only to have him start seizing before the copter arrived. We also had him vomit blood in the ambulance and all over us! We now transport any one who is intoxicated to the hospital... they then become the hospitals responsiblity.

Boy I'm glad to see that we aren't the only service with this kind of problems. We have several frequent fliers in our county. When I come up on them it usually comes down to ... why did you call us today? Is there a problem we can help you with...if not can we call your family. Usually they just need help calling the family because they can't find the numbers or something like that... We are volunteers at our service and we spend alot of time "fixing' the problems that the patients think they have... It never stops amazing me that sometimes we get called for the craziest things...like I've been puking all day and I just need you to give me an iv and we don't have to go to the hospital..... or my favorite one... I just called because I fell down while on my way to get a beer and didn't know how else to get it, so I thought this seemed like an emergancy.... REALLY TRUE story!!

We have access to atomizers but we don't use them very much! The only time I have used them I found that the narcan ran down the back of the throat. It didn't seem to work very well... at least not as well IM of course!!