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Ambulance
10/23/18
This day at clinical I got the experience of riding along in the AMR ambulance from 4-
11pm in Youngstown. This experience was amazing and I wish I could do it again, I got to test
my abilities and get some practice with skills I haven’t had yet. I rode with Laurie and Kyle they
were very nice and helpful, when I first got there they said they’ve had three calls all day so for
me to expect it to be slow, they were so wrong. Within about a half hour of getting in the truck
we got our first call to an assisted living home, a man apparently fell out of his wheelchair and
was bleeding percussively. Upon arrival, the whole place was eating dinner Around a man
bleeding from his head and leg it was morbid to be honest, we had to stabilize his leg which we
assumed was a femur fracture or hip displacement with a large laceration from the knee cap to
almost his ankle which was bleeding heavy, we wrapped it up and straightened it so we could
roll him. We had to then get his head to stop bleeding as much as possible, the cut was to the
skull from above his right eye around his forehead to the left side of his head. We got him into
the ambulance when Laurie decided we didn’t have much time before he bled out with how
much blood he already lost so she had Kyle start driving while we worked on the pt. She had me
suction to keep his airway open he had blood and emesis aspirating, plus the blood from his head
wound flooding into his eyes. She told me to check his leg while she controlled his head, which
was when I found his leg wound had gotten worse the most blood I’ve ever scene, Laurie told me
to grab what I could from the gauze and trauma pads and do what I could to stop the bleed, I
also got a blood pressure cuff and tightened it around his thigh to act as a tourniquet, I held
pressure on his leg until we got into the er room and the doctor took it from me. The rush felt
amazing and Laurie was super impressed with my performance. We had more calls throughout
the night a couple I had to start fluids so I got some IV practice, we got to see some characters
that I didn’t even realize deserve to go to the ER but the overall experience was educational and
memorable.