Is the Patient Breathing?
Is The Patient Breathing? Chapter: 1 Ambulance service, is the patient breathing? Is the first question asked when you call through to the ambulance service. Most of the time people say yes, then the next question I ask is, is the patient awake? Then you say Okay, tell me exactly what happened, and the caller normally goes on some big rant. This call an old woman chatters and sounds out of breath goes on about how her 97 year old farther has recently come out of hospital for a chest infection, and was feeling a little dizzy when having breakfast but it cleared up around 9am, then he went to the shops because he always does his shopping on Wednesday and when he got back he was having his dinner but needed the toilet so he went and on his way there he fell, I've just come over because I always come around and see Dad on Wednesday afternoons but I just found him on the floor and I cant get him up can we have a ambulance. I'm paying as little attention as possible, but I wonder w...