Yesterday I did a day shift at a station about 20 miles from my base, but the shift started an hour later than my normal shift so it meant I didn't have to get up any earlier, in fact I had a bit of a lay in and got up at 6 am. My crew mate, Dan arrived shortly after me, this station has 4 ambulances and two cars (I think) so it is a lot busier than mine both job wise and crews coming and going. Our first job was a resus, the patient was 40 years old and was found in a garden, (unwitnessed cardiac arrest, not good odds) we were the second vehicle and assisted the first crew in getting the patient onto the ambulance and with CPR. After being given adrenaline the patient got an output!! (pulse) we were all very surprised as we had no idea how long he had been down, he maintained his pulse all the way into hospital, and even once made respiratory effort but I continued to use a bag valve and mask as he stopped again. we had several good jobs, a couple of time wasters and plenty of cover, all in all I enjoyed my shift, I just hope Dan wasn't too unimpressed with me, as my confidence is still at a fairly low ebb, he did comment that as soon as the MDT (in cab computer) went off for a job I asked how old our patient was. We had one paediatric patient a one month old who was "foaming at the mouth" it turned out to be nothing but had me going for a while. Thanks for the encouragement Dan I appreciate it muchly xx I got home at nine and had a quick bite to eat before getting into bed, early start on Mondays shift.
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