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It seemed like your typical Sunday morning shift; the radio was quiet, a fresh pot of coffee was being made and the faint sound of the news was a playing in the background. I’m still fairly new to the section, just getting off training status maybe a week earlier, so I’m tasked with familiarizing myself further with our pre-hospital protocol. My shift lead on the other hand has been working Ambulance Services for almost three years and had just returned from a tour in Afghanistan where he worked the ER. He had a plethora of knowledge waiting to be tapped into but his rule was no questions until he finished his first cup of coffee. I can tell he knew I was waiting for him to finish because I swore he was drinking it slow on purpose. He finally takes his last sip but as soon as I open my mouth to ask a question “Stand by medical” blares across our radios. The tone drops, my heart starts racing, my partner and I scrounging to grab the keys, sprinting to the rig, all the while wondering whats going to happen next. Then my stomach drops, what comes next over the radio had my skin crawling “73 year old male found unconscious, no further information at this time”. So many scenarios of what we can roll up on was running through my head. This is it, this is my first true medical emergency call.
That call turned out to be a cardiac emergency and it was a whirlwind of emotions. We did everything right but yet we could not save the patient. It was a humbling moment coming back to that ER two days later to find out that the man we worked so hard to keep alive did not make it.
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