Comments on: AAA…Not A Good Thing To Have…!!! http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/ The Ramblings of a Paramedic Stretcher Monkey Thu, 23 May 2013 00:57:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kingmagic http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6851 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:28:37 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6851 Carol…wishing your husband a speedy recovery.

]]> By: carol http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6850 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:49:44 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6850 great work by crew in ambulance had this experience 5 weeks ago with my husband and his burst on route to 2nd hospital 30 miles away they saved his life along with emergency doctors not out the woods blood clot in lung and picked up a virus in hospital i thank them all

]]> By: Emmbee http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6122 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:10:26 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6122 Well spotted. It’s sort of “Oh Oh” isn’t it. As for the GP, yes he probably didn’t need to stay but isn’t it about continuity of care? He could have stayed and handed over to you thus saving you from repeating all the obs he had (hopefully) already done.

]]> By: martyn http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6063 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:24:31 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6063 Just out of interest we (a BRC volunteer crew doing cover work for the local ambulance trust) took a Dr’s urgent case in the other day, no pulsating mass but all the other symptoms as above plus pain radiating into r groin BP high enough to blow her hat off. Needless to say we moved VERY quickly

]]> By: Detail Medic http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6045 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:09:42 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6045 Holy tripple As Batman! Good job PP! I was ready for you to tell us that he didn’t make it. I once saw a pt with one in the ER. They called his family in to say goodbye just in case he didn’t make it through surgery – and they weren’t expecting him to make it. So sad…

]]> By: Kingmagic http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6042 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:32:31 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6042 Second go at this….lost my connection.

No its not funny to use blues & twos in the way you describe. I know of a couple of peeps in our job who drive without consideration for others but thats how they drive normally!

In the norm we all try and read the road ahead and consider all the eventualities so you would have been safe. (Although a change of under wear might have been needed!)

Have you tried the Yorkshire Puddings at the Altisidora at Bishop Burton or the Full Moon at Skidby? (Been there whilst visiting your area once)

]]> By: Emma http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6039 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:52:46 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6039 I know it’s the GP’s perogative to walk away but wouldn’t he have been better served staying until you arrived to hand over the patient, fore warned is fore armed and all that….

On another note do you think it’s funny to drive up behind someone really fast and just as you get to their bumper turn on your blues and twos and frighten people half to death, thankfully I have been on a defensive driving course so can take evasive action very quickly….lol….that happened to me this morning on the way to work, I like to think normally I am pretty switched on to my surroundings too….xx

]]> By: Kingmagic http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6029 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:00:47 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6029 FatLazyMaleNurse….phone call was to ambulance control. At resus I asked if they were expecting this chap….answer no, same for the surgeons.

“Self-aggrandisement”….you dont know me very well. If it came across like that then maybe its due to the fact that I write my posts without draughting things.

You are entitled to your opinion….thanks for commenting.

]]> By: FatLazyMaleNurse http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6028 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:31:00 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6028 You say the GP made a phone call, probably to the surgeons to let them know he was sending the patient in. You then say he pushed on the patient’s belly – presumably to assess his abdomen – revealing the aneurysm you later ‘discovered’. Whilst I agree that the GP should have stayed with the patient and written a note. I find your post redolent of self-aggrandisement.

]]> By: Kingmagic http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6027 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:54:54 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/aaanot-a-good-thing-to-have/#comment-6027 CVA is an old fashioned term for a cerebral bleed or clot. It implies that it has happened without a logical reason. (within the context of medical knowledge at the time).

It used to be called “Apoplexy” (which some GPs still use.

Waltzing off is the right of certain GPs…a law unto themselves.

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