Blur

I haven't written an EMS related post in a while.  The title of this post is indicative of the amount of activity I've been around recently. The past 5 days have been pretty busy both locally and in the Boston area.  Busy enough,  in fact,  that I can't keep track of a lot of what's been going on,  as far as work is concerned. That said,  some highlights include: -- Three cardiac arrests -- A rollover where the driver extricated himself and ended up being arrested for DUI. I actually felt a little sorry for this character -- A car into a house.  The driver was a diabetic and his blood glucose levels were low, causing him to pass out -- An interesting case of mental status changes.  The patient had both Dementia and Asperger's,  and trying to communicate with him was really challenging.  Turns out he was profoundly septic -- A city hit.  I don't do many of those;  in fact,  I think I've done three in five years of working in Boston,  and this patient was both sick (dehydration secondary to an infected gall bladder) and stubborn;  he wanted nothing to do with us These are calls I was involved in.  There were other incidents that I wasn't involved in that I know of that I can't really talk about,  as much as I'd like to. I have to believe this is indicative of weather changes.  It was extremely hot for a few days.  Meterologists were calling it a heat wave due to the 90-plus degree t...
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