I have gone through a shift change at my primary job. I am now working midnights. I got home at about 0800 and completed a few things around the house. At about 0915 I am climbing into bed. At 1011 my pager goes off , "subject having a heart attack at (location)" I jump out of bed and pull on clothes as I make my way to the door. I make quick work of the 4 blocks from the house to the station. I jump in the medical unit and start toward the location. I notify dispatch I am in route to the scene. Another unit already on scene calls back that it is a seizure not a heart attack. I arrive on scene to find 1 other unit from a nearby vol. fire dept. As I pull up one of the fire fighters said that all they needed was our blood pressure cuff and our pulse oximeter. I enter the building with the requested equipment and begin providing assistance. The victim was still seizing. I attached the oximeter and attached the blood pressure cuff. After getting those stats I called them out to a firefighter that was logging information. The victim stopped seizing. I continued monitoring his vitals. The ambulance crew arrive on scene and take over patient care and the rest of us shift in to a roll of assisting the EMTs. We load the patient onto the gurney and take him to the ambulance. He remains stable and the ambulance transports him to the hospital.
I return to the station feeling like I had done some good that day. Then I rush getting through the paperwork so I can go back to bed.
Get shorted on sleep.... check
Provide first responder assistance to a victim.... check
Make it back to station safe... check
Amount earned... $0
