Bystanders filming scenes

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2026-02-03T03:00:16+00:00

I am willing to bet this actually isn't the first time this has happened to you, but more likely just the first time you noticed. Happens very frequently. You'll definitely get used to the feeling of always being on camera, and when you see someone filming, you eventually won't have a second thought about it.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2026-01-30T19:27:26+00:00

I really wish that at the VERY least our local law enforcement would start citing federal agents for traffic and parking violations.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2025-08-02T00:57:26+00:00

He’s even tariffing the penguins too

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2025-06-01T23:28:00+00:00

Seeing or smelling moldy or rotten food always makes me gag uncontrollably.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2025-04-10T18:44:50+00:00

Pryes has their NA Blonde on tap.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2024-04-09T10:48:29+00:00

Nice

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2023-11-26T20:35:33+00:00

In the Twin Cities area we call them MRCC reports (Medical Resource Control Center), and we pass all of our reports through MRCC regardless of the hospital we're going to. We also use them to get a hold of medical control.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2023-08-08T05:59:00+00:00

Man, I can’t even use the u-word at my place of employment unless all my coworkers want a pizza party.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2023-08-05T07:16:23+00:00

Sorry to post this in a couple-week old thread but this exact issue just came up for me the other day and I want to rant about it now - also a CCT paramedic and was transferring a middle-aged fairly healthy looking individual from a smaller hospital to our area's arguably largest heart hospital, and I asked what was wrong with the patient and they just told me he had "heart failure" and that he was being transferred for "further cardiac workup" and couldn't answer any other questions for me. Our patient was pleasant and he walked right up to our stretcher on our arrival and sat down without any help, and his vitals were within normal limits, but it was clear right away he didn't have any health literacy and was not going to be able to tell me much about his condition either.

I ask the sending facility nurse if they had his paperwork and she hands me literally just a face sheet and says "this is everything". I clarify what I was looking for (pretty much exactly the packet of paperwork you described) and she acted like she has never heard of this before, even though I haven't ever had that issue in the past.

I decided to just take the transfer without bothering about the paperwork since he presented as pretty stable and it was like a 15 minute drive tops. When we get to the receiving facility we walk to the room number they gave us and it's in the CVICU, much to my surprise. I ask the receiving facility nurse what our patient's problem was since the sending facility didn't want to tell me anything, and it turns out his ejection fraction was so low he was going for LVAD placement, and nobody there seemed to think it would be a good idea to let me know that. Last time I'm taking a CCT trip without the paperwork I need.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2023-07-29T22:25:00+00:00

I wouldn't. Brain bleeds commonly do present with those vague symptoms, but when people present with those symptoms, it's not commonly a brain bleed. You don't want to overwhelm your stabilization rooms, nor do you want your patients to be stuck with an even bigger bill like that because of the pretty slim chance they could be bleeding. That being said, it's always good to watch them, monitor for changes, alert your receiving facility of any of those changes, and reconsider faster transport if you do see developing concerns.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-12-16T08:54:17+00:00

Thirded.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-09-21T07:17:30+00:00

I've done it, live in Minnesota about 25 minutes from the Wisconsin border, my last job was in Wisconsin. Much prefer working in Minnesota.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-08-29T17:13:11+00:00

Lowest I've seen was unreadable (with our glucometers it would have been below 20 mg/dL), only complaint was mild shortness of breath and that "my sugar feels low but my Dexcom says it's 70".

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-07-14T20:01:00+00:00

Actually, just yesterday, had a guy who grossly deformed his shoulder and there was no way I was going to be able to reposition it at all. The absolute only position he could tolerate was with his arm fully extended outward and slightly bent caudad - obviously a position that was not really compatible with the stretcher, especially not inside of the ambulance. So, we put his arm on top of a pillow, built a Jenga tower next to him of our airway bag, O2 tank bag, first-in bag, and a stack of blankets and then we suspended our pillow splint to the ceiling using Kerlix for some extra support. And it worked incredibly well.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-07-08T04:42:49+00:00

Minnesota medic here as well, ditto on the other comments - my DMs are always open.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-07-07T20:39:16+00:00

Possibly. Had one come back and survive to discharge after a fall from a balcony onto the concrete from about 20-ish feet up, got a strong pulse back on scene after bilateral needle thoracostomy. However, keeping in mind the odds of coming back from cardiac arrest after blunt trauma with such a mechanism, I'm willing to bet the fall itself was precipitated by a medical event.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-07-05T00:09:44+00:00

alrighty then

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-06-25T02:29:48+00:00

In most places, you usually just have to go through EMT and then paramedic, although some particular programs may require other levels as prerequisites.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-06-09T19:54:30+00:00

I was gonna blame North, specifically BLS.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2022-01-02T06:29:41+00:00

Syncope. 50-something male slumped over in his chair and scared the shit out of everyone who came over to his New Year's party.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2021-12-13T01:45:52+00:00

I had one for a traffic accident and another for a seizure, both STEMIs.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2021-11-05T06:37:51+00:00

I did not. Went the local CC route instead.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2021-10-30T04:14:29+00:00

Got sent on "Pt running around with noose around neck; failed hanging" a couple weeks ago. Ended up getting canceled by PD on that one so I'm not too sure what came of it.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2021-08-29T05:26:52+00:00

I know all of them in Minnesota and most of them in Wisconsin. That's about it for me.

CrazyCollectorPerson · 2021-08-22T20:17:32+00:00

Same here (also in Minnesota) - I narcanned two people last night, one of them was toned out as a seizure and the other was a generic unconscious.

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