This Shouldn't Be Happening...

EMS 20/20

Christopher M Pfingsten

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The guys review a substantially disjointed call in which a patient is coded... or are they? How can a densely, perhaps even over-resourced system miss THIS?

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0:00.0	This podcast is hosted by Chris Finkston and Spencer Oliver. They are both experienced paramedics. They've done everything from 911 ground ambulance to volunteer fire department work
0:22.4	and are both currently flight paramedics.
0:24.7	This podcast reviews scenarios based on real calls run by real out-of-hospital
0:28.1	clinicians.
0:29.0	Details are changed to protect the privacy of those involved and to present educational
0:32.8	opportunities to the listener.
0:34.9	This podcast is EMS 2020.
0:39.4	Hey everybody. Welcome to EMS 2020.
0:45.4	You sounded like a dementia patient trying to like, yeah, no, my name's, oh, I just had it.
0:53.6	It's, yeah.
0:54.8	For me, so here, I have a running theory, and that is that the majority of residents in
1:00.8	an Alzheimer's facility, like the big Alzheimer's facilities that are like mazes are just paramedics
1:06.2	that have never found their way out.
1:08.4	I mean, if you can imagine, like, you know, you imagine some old guy
1:11.8	walking around, but I'm a paramedic. Sure, you are, Stuart. Let's go ahead and get you back to your
1:15.6	room. No, but I really am. I need to get out of here and back to my ambulance. Yes, I know.
1:20.7	Your ambulance is right this way. It's right this way. I do write the codes on my glove because I'm like, I know this.
1:29.2	Like, this is, this is how they'll get me.
1:31.3	Yeah, I'll be an old man and they'll like hand me a stretcher and they'll be like, yeah,
1:35.2	your patience in there.
1:36.8	Go on, Spencer.
1:38.2	And then the door will close behind me and then I'll just be in there wandering around
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