FOAMfrat

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s a Fall night in the middle of nowhere, you’re staffing a Paramedic Ambulance in a combination system. Right as you’re making your bunk you get dispatched for a reported overdose with police enroute, no further information. You’re on a 24hr shift and getting ready for bed, already drowsy and ready for a nap.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

MARCH 1, 2021

An accidental opioid overdose and its nemesis, naloxone. With experience, plenty of ambulance personnel develop a habit of drafting an extrication plan while walking into every situation, depending on the level of chaos that greets us. Some start to sink in right from the early days of education.

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International Journal of Paramedicine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Conclusions: Policy makers should review these reasons for frequently calling 911 and implement a system to help frequent callers use more appropriate health care services including a non-ambulance response to calls related to falls, transport to medical care facilities, or anxiety attacks.

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Peter Canning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street. I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. I have done many overdoses like this one of homeless people who were in fact down alleys and behind dumpsters. They appeared in court or were hospitalized for overdose. We’re driving around looking for the victim.

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NCOAE

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

EMTs are not just “ambulance drivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. For EMTs and patients, an ambulance is more than transportation to the hospital. Many EMTs work on a 911 emergency response ambulance. That means they must learn how to assess and administer for each of those conditions.

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Handtevy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Key Findings: Demographics: Out of 422,968 ground-ambulance pediatric patients, 1,291 received ketamine. Overdoses do occur when using the IV form. They used EMS primary impressions as a proxy for medication indication and defined effectiveness as paramedic-identified clinical improvement. What are our takeaways? Frawley, J.,

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Peter Canning

JANUARY 15, 2024

They treated me like s**t the time I overdosed. One day I was dispatched to an overdose. I was in the paramedic fly car and a BLS crew was in the ambulance. I have done many overdoses like this one of people who were in fact down alleys and behind dumpsters. You have just overdosed. But she’d just shake her head.

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Paramedic Training Spot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In fact, in 1927, the town of Belmar was one of the the first established volunteer ambulance services in the nation. Before this motion was passed to make the standard to have at least one EMT on a truck, there were no set rules as to what training you needed to ride on an ambulance; Rather, most agencies took anybody that was willing.

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ACEP Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Patient C, a 27-year-old female with a history of epilepsy, taking valproate and endorsing adherence, is then brought in by ambulance for a witnessed seizure. There have been documented cases of overdose, and of note, there is no known antidote. This is her first seizure in six years. Diabetes Care. 2018;41:258–66. CNN website.

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 19, 2022

However, when practically applying the results of this study in the prehospital setting, EMS agencies will need to strongly consider how this will operationally and impact their workflow and the number of other ambulances or supervisors available with a second defibrillator.

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Peter Canning

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Respond lights and siren to overdose in car. Arrive to find person who called 911 say the overdosed patient woke up and walked into apartment building. Second neighbor says ambulance took him to hospital that morning. Case in point yesterday. I worked 10 hours in the city. Clear scene. Fire department helps open apartment door.

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Peter Canning

JANUARY 26, 2025

Another EMT is made fun of for leaving the keys in the ambulance allowing unknowns to steal it. Two students accidently overdose on fentanyl contaminated Xanax that they acquired to help sleep after a long caffeine fueled study session, one to likely death and the other to a second chance.

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