Ambulance BBC1
Discussion
techiedave said:
"I'm not a gamg member bro and I dunno why someone shot me"
The paramedic then goes 'whats that''thats where i was stabbed'
I was hald expecting him to say he was an aspiring footballer or dj.
I was surprised they were allowed to show how few vehicles they were putting out.
Its probably a bit like if the public found out how few police are on duty.
What I struggled to understand, was , why when they were struggling for ambulances that nearly every job that was shown had multiple units sent to it.
Cardiac arrest, 5 paramedics. Overdose, 5 paramedics. Jumper from the 9th floor, 5 paramedics.I can understand the turnout for a heart attack but fail to see how they can justify the 5 paramedics for someone who is almost certain to be dead.
Cardiac arrest, 5 paramedics. Overdose, 5 paramedics. Jumper from the 9th floor, 5 paramedics.I can understand the turnout for a heart attack but fail to see how they can justify the 5 paramedics for someone who is almost certain to be dead.
f1dget said:
I can understand the turnout for a heart attack but fail to see how they can justify the 5 paramedics for someone who is almost certain to be dead.
"Almost certainly dead" isn't actually dead though, and if they're seriously injured (which a 9th floor fall could be if it was arrested by scaffolding, trees, shop front awnings etc) then it would require multiple crews.The problem with London or indeed any big city is the 999 calls coming in are often wildly inaccurate.
heart attack needs nothing more than a crew as after aspirin and GTN diesel is the best medicine! There's been a gold standard knocking about for a while regarding more staff at a cardiac arrest. Many hands make light work and all that. If one is doing compressions and one is managing the airway and breathing side, it helps to have a runner to fetch a chair/pull up and administer drugs etc.
When a 999 call is rated as immediately life threatening then a car and ambulance will be dispatched. resources may be stood down if someone else is closer. At a guess I'd suggest that dispatchers knew where the cameras were and plenty of crews were made available. I'd also expect any crews on TV to be senior level and not regular front line workers. I never worked in London but I've rarely seen more than 2 resources (car and van) at a job unless its multiple casualties ar for back up reasons (lifting a fatty or a broken bus generally).
Given that london ambulance service is in special measures and staff are leaving in droves, I'm impressed they even have enough staff to send 5 to each job!
When a 999 call is rated as immediately life threatening then a car and ambulance will be dispatched. resources may be stood down if someone else is closer. At a guess I'd suggest that dispatchers knew where the cameras were and plenty of crews were made available. I'd also expect any crews on TV to be senior level and not regular front line workers. I never worked in London but I've rarely seen more than 2 resources (car and van) at a job unless its multiple casualties ar for back up reasons (lifting a fatty or a broken bus generally).
Given that london ambulance service is in special measures and staff are leaving in droves, I'm impressed they even have enough staff to send 5 to each job!
baldy1926 said:
Seems good so far, the advanced paramedic seems well switched on. Glad the congestion charge is working 36 mins to get to a call is not good.
I wish it was only 35 minutes to get an ambulance to my critically ill casualty, no ambulances available so took the casualty to hospital myself!parabolica said:
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king hell this woman faking miscarriages just to get attention 
Quite - but I think she is a bit mentally challenged as well. It must be very difficult to know how best to deal with people whose problems are rather more mental, or imagined, than dealing with people with more obvious injuries. king hell this woman faking miscarriages just to get attention parabolica said:
fking hell this woman faking miscarriages just to get attention
Reminds me of the woman a. few years ago that was phoning 10 ambulances a day just for 'reassurance'. They sent out a crew and every single one checked her blood pressure and told her there was nothing wrong with her. Within two hours she was phoning for another one. Literally hundreds of call outs to her house in a month.king hell this woman faking miscarriages just to get attention Each call out cost £1500 and not one of them told her she was wasting time and people with strokes and heart attacks were at rick because of her nonsense.
meehaja said:
heart attack needs nothing more than a crew as after aspirin and GTN diesel is the best medicine! There's been a gold standard knocking about for a while regarding more staff at a cardiac arrest. Many hands make light work and all that. If one is doing compressions and one is managing the airway and breathing side, it helps to have a runner to fetch a chair/pull up and administer drugs etc.
When a 999 call is rated as immediately life threatening then a car and ambulance will be dispatched. resources may be stood down if someone else is closer. At a guess I'd suggest that dispatchers knew where the cameras were and plenty of crews were made available. I'd also expect any crews on TV to be senior level and not regular front line workers. I never worked in London but I've rarely seen more than 2 resources (car and van) at a job unless its multiple casualties ar for back up reasons (lifting a fatty or a broken bus generally).
Given that london ambulance service is in special measures and staff are leaving in droves, I'm impressed they even have enough staff to send 5 to each job!
When I had to phone for assistance on the M25 near Barnet when I had sudden heart trouble I was attended by a fast response paramedic,an ambulance crew , a fire crew in a tender , a police traffic car , highways officers in a car and one of the highways trucks with the big sign boards and rear protection cushion, they also closed 2 of 4 lanes .When a 999 call is rated as immediately life threatening then a car and ambulance will be dispatched. resources may be stood down if someone else is closer. At a guess I'd suggest that dispatchers knew where the cameras were and plenty of crews were made available. I'd also expect any crews on TV to be senior level and not regular front line workers. I never worked in London but I've rarely seen more than 2 resources (car and van) at a job unless its multiple casualties ar for back up reasons (lifting a fatty or a broken bus generally).
Given that london ambulance service is in special measures and staff are leaving in droves, I'm impressed they even have enough staff to send 5 to each job!
They tend to allow for worse case scenario
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