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EMS 20/20

Bold Strategy Cotton

EMS 20/20

Christopher M Pfingsten

Critical Care, Police, Paramedic School, Nremt, Ems, Education, Fire Fighter, Health & Fitness, Medical Science, Nurse, Ambulance, Rn, Life Sciences, Doctor, Study, Health, Emergency Room, Paramedics, Wellness, Registered Nurse, Exam, Paramedic, Case Study, Emergency Medical System, Transport, Science, Er, Emergency, Medicine, Hems, Medical, Courses, Emt

4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

An interfacility call that seems like your basic, everyday call... until it isn't. A patient goes from walking and talking to huffing and puffing to gasping and... dying?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hey, Spence, how's your hand?

0:03.4

Let's just start there.

0:06.9

Okay.

0:08.0

So how's that boat oar you have at the end of your left wrist?

0:13.3

Yeah, so I went camping at my, out at my mom's property.

0:18.4

She's got property along a river.

0:20.2

And, yeah, and I And, uh, I discovered on

0:23.4

the day we were leaving that apparently there's a bees nest that I just, I have, I had no idea

0:28.3

was there the whole time. Uh, because one of them stung me on the back of my left hand.

0:34.7

And here's the thing that sucks is like, one, it sucks to get stung, but like,

0:39.5

okay, whatever. But then my mom, I tell, you know, I tell them, I'm like, oh, yeah, I got

0:44.6

stung by a beer, a wasp or something. And my mom's like, oh, well, like, let's put a salve on

0:53.3

it. We'll put some baking soda. That'll be really helpful. And I'm like, no, no, I'm good. I washed my hand. Like, that's, that is as far as I'm going with this. And my hand was fine. So the next day I'm at work. And I noticed as I woke up that morning morning I'm like, huh, my hand kind of hurts.

1:13.3

Oh, it's a little bit swollen just on the back portion of the hand.

1:16.9

As I went through the day, it got more and more swollen and hot and red to the point

1:24.8

where like, I was like, oh my God.

1:27.2

Like I told my partner hey man you might

1:30.7

you might have to get airway today because I'm up now but you might have to take it because

1:36.4

I don't know if this ham hawk will manipulate it's like trying to use a lotoscope with a catcher's mitt on.

1:47.3

And I don't mean like a modern day catcher's mitt.

1:49.5

I mean like the sandlot, you know,

1:51.7

where it's just basically a couch throw pillow with a gap in the middle of it.

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