Comments on: The kindness of control http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/ Smoke me a kipper - I'll be back for breakfast! Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:49:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: HelloWorld http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-2139 HelloWorld Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:01:06 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-2139 Peace people We love you Peace people

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]]> By: Phil http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-314 Phil Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:05:55 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-314 I too am a new ambulance techie and this year was my first bonfire night shift and i thought i had a reasonable chance of seeing a burn over the three shifts i was on. NOT that i want to see a burn, or to see human suffering in general but we need certain types of injuries to write up for our training and am short a scald or burn treatment. I had read up my stuff, checked the ambulance had burn dressings and cling film galore and set off. These days burns are rare because we are all a lot more careful about things like this and i heard only one reported burn incedent over my three shifts. This was while i was cleaning down my rig between patients outside hospital. A nurse was going from rig to rig asking for burns dressings from us because..... THE HOSPITAL HAD NONE. !!! - and let me remind you, this was bonfire night weekend! The child in question had facial burns from a firework - how can a hospital not have any burns dressings available for the one weekend they will probably need them!!! I too am a new ambulance techie and this year was my first bonfire night shift and i thought i had a reasonable chance of seeing a burn over the three shifts i was on. NOT that i want to see a burn, or to see human suffering in general but we need certain types of injuries to write up for our training and am short a scald or burn treatment. I had read up my stuff, checked the ambulance had burn dressings and cling film galore and set off. These days burns are rare because we are all a lot more careful about things like this and i heard only one reported burn incedent over my three shifts. This was while i was cleaning down my rig between patients outside hospital. A nurse was going from rig to rig asking for burns dressings from us because….. THE HOSPITAL HAD NONE. !!! – and let me remind you, this was bonfire night weekend! The child in question had facial burns from a firework – how can a hospital not have any burns dressings available for the one weekend they will probably need them!!!

]]> By: Sean http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-312 Sean Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:59:18 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-312 Oh, your friend Merys could get a cheap laptop off that famous auction site. I got one for £102 - bargain. There's a bloke in Stoke on Trent who sells Dells for - usually - less than £200. Knew I'd miss something off the other post - it always happens. Oh, your friend Merys could get a cheap laptop off that famous auction site. I got one for £102 – bargain. There’s a bloke in Stoke on Trent who sells Dells for – usually – less than £200.

Knew I’d miss something off the other post – it always happens.

]]> By: Sean http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-311 Sean Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:48:05 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-311 Hello. Another linky from Tom's site. A couple of questions, since I've not read much on here. How long have you been doing this job? I only ask as I wonder the same about myself - 2 years on the road next month - am I becoming hardened against patients and people in general? I hope not, though I see it in colleagues on the road the same time as me. I DO think it helps to develop a barrier of sorts against certain horrors - when I started, I found myself so worried about elderly patients, the last place I wanted to leave them was with an un-caring A&E staff. Obviously not a useful preoccupation in this job!! I remind myself before every job that I should try and treat them as I would like to be treated. Another question: How on earth are "pulled pan from cooker" burns still occurring? God knows there was so much public service bleating about this for years, surely to God parents should have realised this by now. That and the fact that kids get absolutely bloody everywhere given have the chance. All the same, you reminded me of a burns transfer a colleague and I did some time back. 90% burns to a woman in her late 20s/early 30s - apologies, the details fade with time - due to a parafin flash fire. 'Apparently', their 'traditional' method of minimising rubbish was to burn it in a metal bin with parafin. Only this time, she became one with the fire. Bizarrely, an ambulance had not been called until after they'd stripped her of her clothes (and a lot of her skin) and re-dressed in her in something else. And I do mean FULLY re-dressed. God, imagine the pain!! And more so when she later had to be stripped again.... She was heavily sedated for the trip, ventilated via ParaPac with IV fluids, antibiotics and some sort of plasma substitute. No room for family on board as we also had A&E docs and nurses travelling. I hate burns jobs. They worry me constantly. As do 'fitters' and children. Keep up the good work. The time to worry is when you realise you really don't care at all any more. Hello.

Another linky from Tom’s site.

A couple of questions, since I’ve not read much on here. How long have you been doing this job?

I only ask as I wonder the same about myself – 2 years on the road next month – am I becoming hardened against patients and people in general? I hope not, though I see it in colleagues on the road the same time as me. I DO think it helps to develop a barrier of sorts against certain horrors – when I started, I found myself so worried about elderly patients, the last place I wanted to leave them was with an un-caring A&E staff. Obviously not a useful preoccupation in this job!! I remind myself before every job that I should try and treat them as I would like to be treated.

Another question: How on earth are “pulled pan from cooker” burns still occurring? God knows there was so much public service bleating about this for years, surely to God parents should have realised this by now. That and the fact that kids get absolutely bloody everywhere given have the chance.

All the same, you reminded me of a burns transfer a colleague and I did some time back. 90% burns to a woman in her late 20s/early 30s – apologies, the details fade with time – due to a parafin flash fire. ‘Apparently’, their ‘traditional’ method of minimising rubbish was to burn it in a metal bin with parafin. Only this time, she became one with the fire. Bizarrely, an ambulance had not been called until after they’d stripped her of her clothes (and a lot of her skin) and re-dressed in her in something else. And I do mean FULLY re-dressed. God, imagine the pain!! And more so when she later had to be stripped again….

She was heavily sedated for the trip, ventilated via ParaPac with IV fluids, antibiotics and some sort of plasma substitute. No room for family on board as we also had A&E docs and nurses travelling.

I hate burns jobs. They worry me constantly. As do ‘fitters’ and children.

Keep up the good work. The time to worry is when you realise you really don’t care at all any more.

]]> By: Mandebvhu http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-299 Mandebvhu Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:56:25 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-299 Hi - like so many others before me, I followed a link from Tom's great blog. I stand in absolute respect of EMT's and medico's - I am a retired police officer (from Zimbabwe) and know how we could have done with you guys then... This blog will be joining my blog roll on www.thebeardedman.blogspot.com Take care. 'debvhu Hi – like so many others before me, I followed a link from Tom’s great blog. I stand in absolute respect of EMT’s and medico’s – I am a retired police officer (from Zimbabwe) and know how we could have done with you guys then…

This blog will be joining my blog roll on http://www.thebeardedman.blogspot.com

Take care.

‘debvhu

]]> By: sally http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-293 sally Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:59:00 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-293 Sitting here crying like a lemon... and proud of it. Will remember you all in my prayers tonight. Sitting here crying like a lemon… and proud of it. Will remember you all in my prayers tonight.

]]> By: LittlelegsDad http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-262 LittlelegsDad Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:26:17 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-262 thanks for being there when we need you. thanks for being there when we need you.

]]> By: Dr. Arun Grover http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-261 Dr. Arun Grover Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:43:16 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-261 Heart touching incident. I am glad there are good people still out there in the world caring for the little things that matter. Heart touching incident. I am glad there are good people still out there in the world caring for the little things that matter.

]]> By: nizam ali http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-260 nizam ali Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:37:14 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-260 Consider yoursel nothing, and let God Almighty make you something. Consider yoursel nothing, and let God Almighty make you something.

]]> By: Sal http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-259 Sal Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:37:04 +0000 http://laurasblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/the-kindness-of-control/#comment-259 Thinking of you and the little lad you attended to, you do a brilliant job. Sending you a big hug :) Thinking of you and the little lad you attended to, you do a brilliant job. Sending you a big hug :)

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