howdy wrote:My crew was called to a cardiac arrest in a local night club one Friday evening. There was a big name band playing and the bar would not turn on the lights to help us work this code. We had to keep people going to the bar from stepping over the patient. Some actually got mad that we were interferring with their ability to get a drink.
I'm not trying to play the "my call was worse than yours was" but while working for MedStar probably it was in the 1990-1995 era, right here in supposedly compassionate people Fort Worth, we got a call for an "unconscious person" at a north-side chicken place that used to be a Church's Chicken, but was now run by some north-side dude. This was ob a weekend day, late afternoon, and when we get there, it's not one of the customers choking on a big piece of chicken, but rather a fairly young dude that was working the drive-up window. He was in cardiac arrest, but the manager had to be forcibly moved by our FD guys, so we could get in there and work this dude. People were honking and got upset because no one at the window (now it's just us and the FD guys) would get them their order.
We worked him for a while (10 minutes or so, through the first round of ACLS drugs) then, to get him out, we had to hoist hin, on the backboard, over the front counter. Since he was a pretty big fellow, he slid on the counter, rather than lifting him way over the counter, and a jar of jalapenos got knocked to the floor. The manager actually thought that the City should pay for the damage, until the PD officer told him that with one more word, he'd find himself arrested for interference of a public servant. He shut up, but the customers who had to exit the narrow front counter space were arguing about who was gonna be first in line!
So, for those who think we're just heading there, I'd suggest that we've already been there, for a while!