Crock Calls

[firedoc5]

We had a guy, family actually, where a sneeze or stubbed toe was cause for 911. Occasionally he had chest pain, and was "allergic" to everything but Demerol. We got called on him and he was in his usual position, even unconscious. But when Mary went to check his pulse, no radial pulse. But he did have a carotid of about 40. CRAP. Sinus brady on the monitor, Atropine, Epi. even got him on Dopamine @ 7Mcg/Kg/min, EVERYTHING, still stayed in Cardiogenic shock. Everyone "knows" that a person in Cardiogenic shock for an extended time won't make it. He was for four days. Then he finally came out of it. Less than a month he was right back home calling 911 because he couldn't take his wife yelling at him.

[spenac]

We had a guy, family actually, where a sneeze or stubbed toe was cause for 911.

We have a whole town of those. I am actually shocked when we get a real patient.

[JPINFV]

And to think, I didn't even know that these were able to call 911.

[thiswillbenothingkid]

There is a gentleman who calls an ambulance many many times a day and he lives not too far from my house. The service has a policy to send only one ambulance to the address in every 24 hour period so it seems that when this man becomes ill he will be waiting for a long time if it happens just after one of his daily visits.

If he calls an ambulance at night he is courteous to his neighbours and requests that we dont park directly outside of his house and that we turn off the reversing warning. Most people who go out to him are well and truly complacent because after you knock on his door he states that he doesn't want to go to the hospital anyway.

Most of his calls are because he can't sleep.

One night a crew called out to him and ended up giving him some friendly advice on how to sleep before leaving him and returning to station.

A little while later the phone rings and control ask the crew 'what the hell is going on?'

'we have just had a call from the gent who you attended two hours ago, he has said that the crew told him to have a whiskey and a wank and that he would be asleep in no time. He has just rung back to say he has done as he was told and he still can't sleep'

[Ecnalubma08]

Yeah, we had this lady that kept calling in with chest pains and was "allergic" to nitro. It would give her a headache.

Haha headache = allergy to nitro! I love it.

[Flasurfbum]

A certain resident of Atlantic City would call 911 to Arctic and New York Aves, or in front of the old unemployement office, just off NY Ave. Sometimes 3x a day. All for "seizures". Usually for a sammich.

Sad thing is....he actually has/had a seizure condition, and did occasionally suffer from a real seizure.

Last I heard, he was doing time for something....

[firedoc5]

We had one guy we called "Baby Glenn". Usually his complaint was SOB (and he was one). But he would be sitting at the table with his home O2 on and smoking a cigarette. Very bad COPD. Never could quit. He would rarely want to go in. He would have his wife call us because he said we had better O2 than his home unit. He didn't want to go in but wanted us to bring him the O2 and wait while he sucked down ours. When we told him we couldn't do that he would have a tantrum like a two year old. Hence forth the name "Baby Glenn"