The Ace Cafe Ambulance Reunion

Green 2 Allocated 20 YO Male ABDO pain

Lad with a bellyache, been pooing runny poos since this morning so mum decides to dial "999 AND ASK FOR AN AMBULANCE". So we roll on up to the house, doting mother having a go at us because we are 2 hours late.. We do an assessment, his Obs were A1 & we found out that he had a dodgy curry the night before, so we explain that it may be better to see his GP rather than a trip to hospital. But his mother said that because he is paining he must go to A&E. So here we are about to drive a 20 YO fit male to A&E and when we look behind to see where his mother was, we notice that she is getting in their huge family car to follow us to A&E.... Do people demand ambulance's for minor issues because it is a free at the point of contact service or are they just thick...


What particularly annoys me about the above job was the that before that, we attended to this poor fella:


Green 1 Allocated. 95 YO Male, lethargic, Infected Ulcers, Low BP, Braddycardic

We arrive at what was quite a nice Care Home (this is a rarity) and while my crewmate has a quick chat with the patients daughter I try to decipher what is written on the notes left for us by the GP, the note reads that the patient has severely infected ulcers on both his lower legs, and that they are infected with "MRSA". (would have been nice if the GP had explained this to LAS before we were dispatched). So according to protocol we don our infection control equipment and get to work.. Obs weren't very good, BP being 92/48 & PR being 66 this wasn't to worry about at first but then I read that he has Ventricular Tachycardia so in his case this was quite slow.. We arrive at A&E and he is wheeled straight into a quarantined room..

The above gentleman really needed an ambulance & really needed Hospital attention, but he was reluctant to go, partly because the Hospital had only released him 5 days ago, and yes he had been in that condition on discharge. Then we get a 20 YO waisting everybody's time......


So after a thorough deep clean of the ambulance & a change of clothes we were back out on the road & did a couple more bread & butter jobs.....

So it being not that busy we were asked to return to base for a break, but because we were next to the ACE CAFE we decided to request for our break there & we got it.... and then a genuine coincidence occurred & another crew turned up on a break, it was a couple of blokes that had trained with us. So we had a little ACE CAFE reunion & had chilli burgers right next to some classic Nortons & triumphs complete with the smell of engine oil. GREAT!!!