travelinTxn t1_ixp2qfp wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:25 AM

Reply to comment by Homebrew_Dungeon in A paramedic fought to save a crash victim, not knowing it was her daughter by ComfortableFactor1

Better pay, but many similar issues for ER nurses. Worse pay sometimes for ER techs than EMS but still all the emotional strain.

I’ll never forget the night when my wife was 8 months pregnant and we had an inbound unknown 30 something 8 month pregnant pt, MV vs Ped, intubated in field GCS of 6. The 13 minutes it took for them to get that pt there, my wife not replying to texts, being in a schrodingers box of has our life just drastically changed and if so how much…. There’s plenty of other things that have gotten to me but that night hit me hard, even when she got there and I found out it wasn’t my wife, but I had to see a couple’s life change badly that could have been us.

Intensityintensifies t1_ixpcf3p wrote on November 25, 2022 at 6:12 AM

Can you tell me what happens to the lady in English?

chinaronald t1_ixpdtsp wrote on November 25, 2022 at 6:29 AM

Motor vehicle hit a female pedestrian who then needed a breathing tube put in on the scene. She was a 6 on the glasgow coma scale from 3-15 which shows her having a moderate-to-severe loss of consciousness

ACorania t1_ixpdyxy wrote on November 25, 2022 at 6:31 AM

She was a pedestrian hit by a car and in critical condition.

(GCS is a scale of responsiveness and a six is a really low score)

WarWinx t1_ixpy4qo wrote on November 25, 2022 at 11:24 AM

Not just critical condition, but technically in a coma, with high possibility of severe brain damage. (Just further explaining the GCScore)