Head Trauma

Well this morning started out with a big call. A guy was hit by a bus. When we got on scene, the paramedic went to work and I brought the bed over and collapsed it so it would be low to the ground. The medic and paramedic back boarded the man and we loaded him into the ambulance. The guy had to be intubated but didn't tolerate that very well so then an airway was put in and ventilations given. I hooked him up to the monitor and oxygen saturation monitor. With so much going on in the ambulance time flew by and we were at the hospital. The patient was taken to the intensive care unit and I went off to do some cleaning. Later on my driver said he had treated this guy before, that time it was from getting hit by a car. The driver joked that he must have a hard head.

Upon returning to the station I started to chit chat with a local volunteer named Or, which in Hebrew means light. She was talking about how her parents were on a well deserved vacation to the United States with one of their stops being Las Vegas. She also told me that she had been to Disneyworld before and Disney Paris. I told her how much my dad loved Disney. We also talked about the perception people outside of Israel have about Israel. Later we talked about education and she encouraged me to keep going to school and get my PhD. I tried to explain to her how I was done with school and my aspirations did not really call for needing a PhD. :) In between all of this we got a call to transport an oncology patient to a hospital in Haifa. We picked her up at her house, I took vitals in the ambulance on our way to the hospital. It was a long trip. Once we got to the hospital the patient insisted on being taken to a certain department and not the emergency room. After some arguing and consultation we started our odyssey to find where she wanted us to take her. Finally transferring her we went through some more paperwork filling out and started back to the station. The end of the shift for me, Or had come in early so her shift was just starting officially at 3pm.

Not too bad of a day, a good call and some delightful conversation.