#emergency services

[frangipani-wanderlust]

is there any truth to those 911 "codes" people see circulating (like ordering a pizza)? Is there a good way to tip you guys off that we need help without saying for sake of an example, "my ex husband is here and drunk and dangerous"?

There is absolutely no truth at all whatsoever to the "pizza code" and definitely not established set of "this topping means this and that one means that" at all. Don't kill yourself memorizing them, that won't mean anything. There are no codes that 911 calltakers are trained on, other than our local 10-codes for the police (and those are not standardized, so knowing them in one jurisdiction won't help you in another).

The situation you described would be tricky to navigate, honestly, but let's see. If I get a 911 call, it's going to start with, "911, what is the address of the emergency."

If the caller says, "Yes, I'd like to have a pizza delivered to 111 Underhill DR." my first thought is going to be that they dialed a wrong number.

So now, I'm gonna confirm that thought. "I'm sorry, you've called 911. Did you intend to call a pizza place?" Or maybe—now that you've got me gamplanning this out—I'd say, "Do you have an emergency?" as the question there, instead.

At this point, anyone who doesn't have an emergency is going to give me their schpiel about how their phone called by mistake or that it was a butt dial or their kid grabbed their phone. Whatever happened. We get a lot of accidental dials.*

If you are not able to speak freely, you're not going to say that. You'll answer that question however you answer it, but whatever it is won't be an explanation of why you called by mistake, and it will almost certainly not be a direct answer to the question I asked either. Whatever you say here is gonna be weird.

(Don't start spouting wacky nonsense, as we do have actual literal crazy people who call and report their hallucinations on 911. So, what you say here should follow the thread of the question asked, but don't tell the calltaker you don't have an emergency or that you dialed by mistake.)

From there, I'm gonna start asking yes-or-no questions, to allow you to answer without whoever might be listing hear you say things other than that. "Is there someone there with you?" "Can you speak freely?" "Do they have a weapon?" Stuff like that. If there's a point where you have to stop talking, I am going to ask you to put the phone down, but not hang up the call, that way I can still hear the noise in the background. By this point, police are already on their way. And I am definitely going to stay on the line until they arrive. So whatever I hear in the background gets relayed to the responders in real time.

* Even for accidental dials, I will double down on getting confirmation by asking, "If you had an emergency, would you be able to tell me?" I do this now for every single person who says they accidental dialed or didn't call because one of the times I just happened to ask it and the caller immediately hung up. To this day, I don't know what was happening, but I do know we absolutely did our due diligence and sent police to go check.

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[dougielombax]

Who the fuck thinks it’s a good idea to privatise emergency services?!

Apart from stupid Tories and terminally divorced tech bros.

“No, really. It’ll work this time!” - Capitalism.

I feel SICK!

“The Free Market Fire Department!

We’ll stop your house from burning down, but only if you pay a small fee of $500 and sign this contract.”

“But I don’t have $500.”

“Then you’re just gonna have to fucking die!”

Ghastly shit.

Perish the thought!

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[scavengedluxury]

Firefighters, Kalocsa, 1912. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#kalocsa #hungary #firemen #emergency services #1910s

[jtownraindancer]

Well this wasn't something I wanted to read this morning. 😳

#hopefully it's outdated but they still have back up numbers listed #what the actual heck #emergency services #pennsylvania #current events #thank god 95% of my phone contacts are first responders if i need to call someone

[sir-sanguinus]

All of these apply to me :/

#hyperspecific poll #villain #enamel pins #siblings #travel #religion #lunch #neil gaiman #emergency services

[joe-england]

Watch "Let's talk about Idalia, evac, and tough guys...." on YouTube

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[aimlessarticulation]

I’m unliked, unwanted, and unwelcome, but guess what?

I’m still here mother fucker.

And it’s your god damn problem.

#poem #poetry #writing #angry #angerdriven #anger vent #I’m fucking pissed #EMS #emt #emergency medicine #emergency services #emergency medical technician

[jammiedoggo]

Stahp right there!

This good dog is in the run to chase and catch the fleeing criminal on run like the German shepherd's ancestor herding livestocks before the breed becomes a service dog, a hundred and decades years ago. Maybe one day, these zoophile lusty huskies Kero the wolf, Hypnotist sapho, Woof, Tim win, Toggle the rat (From Zooier than thou podcast) and other zoophile exposed will get arrest if thier latest beastiality went mishap sliped into the cracks into the cop's radar, there be prison where Snake thing at. (When there be hope n future) The dog dosen't like sexual animal abusers nor any animal abuse.

!(My) Opinion Alert!

Don't ask me because Zootopia has the answer. A cause i love the disney film Zootopia, not because furry cop but it the decent writing with tackling racism problem representing as anthro animals and Specism.(Bit of spolier alert here) The big problem is the twist villain where theres lack of build up, not fleshed out on her character and easily forgetable but i like the idea of corrupt Specist officals who abuse the power of athority and police force.

I'm aware of Anti-cop movement, controvseries, negligance and stupidity, over-militarise and Copaganda stuff including if you live in dictatorship countries like Belarus, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Turkmenistan and more and have to advoid unfair arrest by corruption. Beside from negative aspect, they can be used for good to keep civilians safe from dangerous crime, tooking action against convicted criminals, stopping illegal smugging such as terrorist bombs, addictive life ruining drugs, snuff contents, human-trafficking and more. Abolishing them means your country is vulnreable to high crime rate as Central America especially Honduras, but the real problem that need fixing police system itself.

I've previously mention about the K-9 mondioring on my artwork called HUNTED! of hunting dogs caught thier prey to represent of what thier bred for. It gave me the idea for next artwork until i made this.

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[frangipani-wanderlust]

How To Call 911

So most of my followers know now that I started working last May as a 911 dispatcher. Super proud of myself. And now that I am starting (very much still starting) to settle in a bit, I want to offer some tips on how to call 911. So, hold on to your hats.

(no-color version if the yellow text isn't rendering on your screen correctly)

When in doubt, call 911. Don't take this as me encouraging you to jump at shadows. Your neighbors' loud party is not an emergency, google the local non-emergency line and call that. Neither is the dry cleaning not giving you your clothes (I actually got this call on our 911 line). Nor is the fact that you saw a fox inside city limits (also something a real human called 911 about). But if you see a situation unfolding and you think "this seems dangerous, maybe this is 911-worthy" then it's 911-worthy. Don't hesitate. Call.

If you call 911 and you are freaking out, that's okay. If you're in a crisis, you may not remember a single tip I'm about to give you. We are trained for that, we can handle it, just do the best you can. It's not the end of the world to have a hysterical or frightened caller, and these are tips, not rules.

Location, location, location. We can't send you help if we have nowhere to send it to. Ideally, know the address. Failing that, know the name of a business or a church or an intersection. It is not cheating if you read this off a sign. There isn't a set of invisible rules that says you have to have your exact GPS coordinates memorized. Be prepared to describe the location somehow. That way, if our connection drops and that's all you can tell me, I can still send some police out to come find out what's going on and they can ask for medics or firefighters or whatever if needed. But we absolutely must know where to send assistance, it is the first thing we're going to ask.

Location again, but with a twist. The first thing our office says for emergencies is, "911, what is the address of the emergency?" If a building is on fire, tell us where the fire is. If your neighbors are being robbed at gunpoint across the street, give us their address. If you witnessed a car accident, tell us where the accident happened. The location of the emergency isn't necessarily the location where you are. Don't send police and fire to your office building if the wreck is on the freeway.

Answer the questions that you are asked. If the calltaker asks "Is the patient breathing?" don't start in about the seizure they just had (if they aren't breathing, the seizure they just had is not the biggest problem). If the calltaker asks, "Which way did the man you saw go when they ran?" don't tell them about how they broke down your door (if they are running away, knowing they broke your door down does not help the police know which direction to start looking). The particular question you are asked is being asked for a reason, and that reason is not frivolous but in an emergency, we aren't going to stop and explain everything.

Do not launch into a speech. If you're asked a yes/no question, yes or no is all the answer you should give. Your impulse will be to explain the yes or the no because more information is better than not enough, but overexplaining is its own problem. Now, we are hired for good typist skills, and are encouraged to get better and faster, but infodumping means things can get missed. The calltaker is going to have some information they're going to ask for by protocol and probably the option to drill down on some of it if clarification is needed. If you spend five paragraphs explaining your last answer, it delays getting other pertinent information.

Do not launch into a speech, part the second. You don't call 911 for things that happened last week, or even yesterday. Tell me the emergency that is happening right now. Ideally in one sentence. If someone is having a medical issue, and you call 911 about it, when the calltaker asks exactly what happened, do not tell them about how the patient had a surgery 5-and-a-half weeks ago. You called 911. What is the emergency that is happening right now. Don't be telling me about their surgery when the problem you called about is a broken leg. Yes, the surgery may have led to generalized loss of balance that has yet to return which caused the patient to fall which caused them to break their leg. Understood. But you didn't call because of all of that. You called because of the broken leg. Apply this principle to all emergencies.

Don't launch into a speech, part the third. When asked a specific and direct question, do not give an explanation instead of an answer. If the calltaker asks you "Is the weird person on the side of the road actually in the lanes of traffic?" do not explain to them how it's a very narrow roadway (see parenthesis for the story here). Aside from the fact that we're not asking these questions to be funny (see part the second), there's also the fact that now you are coming over as suspicious as hell. If I asked "how did that person on Facebook know what this supposedly missing kid is wearing and where he's going to be at 3:00 today?" and you say "well Facebook is a good way to spread information" I am now extremely suspicious of you.

(Also an actual call I have taken. The man was a totally ordinary guy out for a walk to the store, but this blue collar man walked through a Rich Person Neighborhood™ and according to Lady Catherine De Bourgh on the phone with me, that merited a call to the police. When I asked her if he was actually in the lanes of traffic [traffic hazard call type] versus not [suspicious person call type, on a technicality but technically...], she tried explaining three times that the road was narrow before she finally got the message that I was not going to stop asking until she told me the actual answer and answered "Well, I suppose so, yes." At this point, because she'd been so reluctant to answer me, I no longer believed the man actually was in the lanes of traffic and to this day believe that she lied to try and manipulate the police into a stronger-level response than was actually warranted. Because determining whether she was lying for sure is beyond the scope of my job, I put down what she said, but I didn't believe then and still don't believe now, that she told the truth. The totally ordinary and probably very nice guy was not arrested or hassled at all and was instead given a courtesy ride to the store.)

Be prepared to describe relevant people, maybe including yourself, and that includes race. If you have an asthma attack at a football game, the medics need to know how to find you in a crowd. If you are a black woman, that's gonna rule out everyone who isn't that. If you are a black woman wearing a yellow shirt, blue jeans, and a blue bandana over your hair, that excludes nearly everybody and when the medics arrive, they'll know exactly who to look for. Most of the time, someone's race isn't relevant information. When describing someone to emergency services, it absolutely is and it is not racist to accurately describe the relevant person or people.

There are more tips in the world, and I may come back to this post and add them as they occur to me. In the meantime, please enjoy this short treatise on how to call 911.

#actual 911 #emergency services #tricks and tips #resources #how to call 911 #yellow color chosen because dispatchers are gold #no seriously #emergency services have star trek style color coding #and dispatchers are gold #lol

[dougielombax]

So…

You got shot.

And instead of calling the cops or an ambulance, you decided to MONOLOGUE to yourself for twenty FUCKING minutes?!

…

Amazing

Outstanding

STUPID!!!!!!!!

WHY?????!!!!!!!!!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #my poor attempt at a joke #unreality #shot #gunshot #monologue #what #no context #this sounded funnier in my head #shitpost #highbrow shitposting #emergency services #or lack thereof

[scavengedluxury]

Ambulance driver, Budapest, 1970. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#budapest #hungary #emergency services #smoking #1970s

[protoboi-official]

A New Path

I have officially become a firefighter and [at some point] will start EMT-B training. Not now, but when I gain some experience, certifications and so on. Taking care of Humans from a medical standpoint isn’t an easy task, you know. So, this must all be done patiently. I look forward to serving more of the people of Earth and give back for the nice things that I have received and the kindness that a small portion of the population has given me.

#Firefighter #EMS #Newbie #Emergency Services

[whoops-im-obsessed]

People say paramedics are too dramatic about the things they go to, that it's 'just part of the job' and 'you signed up for this' but in the past 6 months on an ambulance I have:

Been exposed to chlorine gas

Been threatened with knives at least once a week

Been in an ambulance crash

Been chased by a guy with a broken bottle

Half collapsed in a patient's house because I was exhausted and dehydrated

Been called racial slurs (I'm white)

Seen mangled bodies

Broken ribs trying to squeeze a heart back into life

Had someone tell me they were going to split my face in two

Am I the drama? I don't think I'm the drama

#i think its the general public who are the fucking drama #ambulance #ambulance service #ambulance services #nhs #nhs england #paramedic #emt #eca #emergency medicine #emergency services #emergency care assistant #emergency care #healthcare #tw violence #tw gore #tw threats

[tiredtwstoutt]

The first people to take the course in 1967 were a group of Black men who were in Freedom House, an organization that originally provided jobs delivering vegetables to needy Black Americans. At first the idea was to switch the delivery service from delivering food to driving people to medical appointments. But, within eight months, the drivers were trained to handle emergencies including heart attacks, seizures, childbirth, and choking. Their first calls took place during the uprising following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.

And data showed that the training worked. One 1972 study of 1,400 patients transported to area hospitals by Freedom House over two months found the paramedics delivered the correct care to critical patients 89% of the time. By contrast, the study found police and volunteer ambulance services delivered the right care only 38% and 13% of the time, respectively. One Freedom House member, Nancy Caroline, wrote a textbook on EMS training that became the national standard.

Despite the success of Freedom House, the city nixed the program in 1975. Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty thought he could create a better system and replaced Freedom House with an all-white paramedic corps. Hazzard tells TIME that he believes racism was at play. As he puts it, “What other reason could he have for not wanting this organization, which was so successful and was a model around the country and around the world, other than the fact that they were an almost entirely Black organization.”

The real story “doesn’t make the city look good,” Hazzard says, so that’s why he thinks the story of the nation’s first paramedics is not better known. But Hazzard believes there are lessons in this story that are useful for all professions, not just paramedics. Many of the Freedom House participants went on to get master’s degrees, Ph.D.s, or medical degrees—or pursued careers in politics or the upper echelons of police, EMS, and fire departments.

“These were really successful people who came from nowhere and where it all began was an opportunity in 1967,” Hazzard says. “All it took for a group of young men that the world had written off was one opportunity, and they never looked back from that point. Anyone can reach great heights. They just simply need a single opportunity.”

#u.s. history #black history #u.s. health #emergency services #time magazine #pittsburgh

[trans-marvel-fan]

Advice for writing a Emergency room setting from an ER frequent flyer (me)

(Disclaimer; this isn’t necessarily true for every ER, but it is what I have personally experienced in a busy hospital that serves a county of 703,700 people)

The waiting room is more likely to be crowded at night than during the day, if the hospital has a paediatric department then the children will be moved quicker than the adults because of typically less children waiting.

One example would be five people in the waiting room at 10am compared to 50 people at 10pm.

The children’s ER will most likely get busiest at night (this is when sick kids tend to worsen and parents tend to worry).

The emergency room tends to slow down a bit around 1-2am and they might turn some of the lights off in the hallways for patients to sleep.

If the hospital has a paediatric unit it will admit everyone under the age 18, and depending on policy it may admit under 21. Children’s hospitals specific ER’s may admit anyone under the age 25.

If the waiting room is busy there will likely be people waiting in both chairs and wheelchairs, as well as security making regular rounds.

Psych patients may get moved back quicker due to the possible danger they can pose to themselves and others, they are also likely to be watched by security until they’re taken back. 

On the topic of psych patients- they get most of their personal belongings taken. They’re most likely allowed to keep their cellphone and a book while in the ER, but everything else will be confiscated.

Pencils, pens, phone chargers, shoes, etc are a big no no for psych patients. Psych patients are forced to change into scrubs, socks, and will have a nurse watching them at all times.

Many hospitals have phone chargers for patients to use at the nursing station, you must leave your phone there to change it but they’re likely to allow it.

EKG’s are standard on everyone coming into the ER, even psych patients will usually be submitted to an EKG.

Unlike in TV shows, there is hardly ever room for ever patient to have a bed and bay. Patients having beds in hallways, sometimes with a privacy screen (but more likely not) are very common because of overflow. (This seems to happen more at nighttime).

They’re probably going to ask you to pee in a cup, if you have a period they’ll almost always run a pregnancy test.

They’ll ask anyone over the age of roughly twelve about sexual activity, drugs, and alcohol. Most people lie.

General emergency patients aren’t usually stripped of their belongings

Hospitals are understaffed to the point that it’s not uncommon to see EMS and Firefighters helping in the emergency room.

Psych patients are usually on 24/7 watch no matter what they were brought into the hospital for.

I can do a part two if anyone is interested, send me your own experiences and any questions- I’ll try to answer them in a part two if there’s enough request.

#emergency room #emergency services #emergency room staff #emergency room patient #writing advice #writing tips #how to write #hospitals #psych calls #mental health support #support #paediatric #healthcare #personal experience