Case study( sort of ) in standard of care in texas EMS systems

I had a double stabbing last year where the call came out, the other Ambulance and Field Supervisor left from the same hospital where we were, they got on scene, and requested an additional unit (My Unit). We responded on the second dispatch to the scene from the hospital, immediately grabbed the guy, did a scene time of 3-4 minutes, had Fire drive us in, got the guy to the trauma suite, restocked and cleaned, and had our fucking truck available by time the Ambulance that was orginally dispatched arrived to the hospital with the guy.

Like it was something else. Luckily we took the "victim" who had multiple thoracic stab wounds, while they took the attacker who suffered mainly superficial slash wounds to his back.

But it was just a terrible call on their part. They had the other guy loaded and in their truck by time we got there and our guy was on the ground with our supervisor and some ABD pads. Not only did they not expedite, they initiated their care on the non-life threat patient and left the other guy with serious level 1 wounds on the ground.

The worst thing was the previous staffing of that truck was a younger EMT/Medic Combo who were awesome about Trauma calls. My buddy got run over by a car and came close to death. That crew had a scene time of 2.5 minutes on him, and they fucking Backboarded and packaged him in that time.

/r/ems Thread Parent