Saturday
The Bay city rollers greatest hit was a song about how great saturday night could be,
SA-TUR- DAY night...
Aparently none of them worked in E.M.S.
First of all Ken took the day off,
so I am working with Mike Behner.
Not a problem
I like Mike, and the last time we worked together all hell broke loose in Elyria and we spent all night working on trauma.
Today was no different.
We were busy throughout the day and when the bar's close thousands of drunks take their chances driving home.
Most of them make it.
However, when they don't...
It' our job to politely clean up the mess.
At around 2:30 am. we were dispatched to the 400 block of lake avenue, about 6 blocks away from our station. where a car has hit a telephone pole.
Half way there we are informed that bystanders on scene have told 911 that there are 2 passengers and one of them is unconscious and they arent sure if he's breathing.
Dispatch asks if we want a second truck?
I feel that we are close enough to wait and see but they should definately send 80. so we have another medic.
were first on scene and E.P.D shows up with us, the car is wrapped around the base of the pole and the pole has snaped in two, the top of it is beng held up by the wires.
I pull ahead of the car to where it looks safe, there are no downed wires and I see movement on the passenger side of the car.
Mike and I aproach the car and E.F.D. arrive on scene.
The driver had a pulse and is breathing but is un responsive.Due to the mechanism of injury the access to him as limited and I ask the Fire department to take off the roof of the car.
The passenger is awake and moving
he doesn't look hurt but is acting "Head Injured" so we have to immobilize and transport him soon.
("Head injured" = you know combative + disconnected from the situation. )
(of course this could be due to alcohol consumption but I don't know if he was drinking.)
I inform dispatch to send the second truck and they were only 2 minutes away as it was, 80 was now on scene as well.
As the Fire dept. cut the car I was able to reach the driver.
I placed him on O2, Behner took C-spine and I started a line,
80 and EMT'S from the Fire dept. attended to the passenger till 93 got there but he grew more and more combative,
as the roof was removed from the car he began to get violent and was swinging at anyone who was in reach.
Unfortunately for him he hit a cop.
They cuffed him and by the time I was in a position to help extricate him from the oassenger seat they were already doing it!
As we immobilized to driver he was stilll unresponsive but breathing nicely and his pupils were equal and reactive.
Both trucks were ready to transport at the same time and EMH had already put Lifeflight on stand by.
They flew the driver to Metro. and the passenger who turned out to be uninjured but drunk as hell, was actually acting what his family called normal.
Turns out he's just a "Mean Drunk"
As is par for the course when Behner and I work together,
The other trucks all had trauma of one sort or another.
Including a guy who was shot in the belly while hunting
(at 1:20 in the morning on someone elses land...)
I must say as I have said before:
"Stupid people and the things they do, Keep us in business"
Good Night
