Week 6

This was an interesting but tiring week. This past week was the last one of the first partial. I took my pharmacology test yesterday and everything went just fine. In our English class I handed in our last project from the monthly grade. My nervousness grew with each day that approached to this Sunday, this dew to my first day at service in an ambulance. I woke up really early, earlier than the sun itself, and with my uniform I prepared for my first and special 12 hour guard of my city. First hour was just for me to get to know all the equipment of the ambulance, counting everything and making sure personally that every gadget worked just fine for any emergency. We got the notification on our GPS of the first service, my heart started beating faster and adrenaline flowed thought my arteries while all what I had learned the past year in the Red Cross about street medicine came to my mind hoping to be able to apply all my knowledge. We were called to attend a Christian church to try to reanimate a 4 year old girl who fainted, but when we arrived their parents had already take her to the hospital by their own. Before arriving to our "Bravo" or base, we received another call of a medical case at a nearby house. My partner and I got prepared and entered the house full of family members of the sick person. He was a geriatric patient who had emphysema, diabetes and started the day with aphasia. His breathing rate was altered, his pupils were not reacting fast enough to reach the standards. He was contious but couldn't move his arms and the right half of his forehead was stretched and the other half's muscles were contracted. We diagnosed stroke. We transported his immediately to the San Vicente Hospital making sure his hemoglobin oxygen saturation was enough. We also canalized him with saline solution, and made sure all his vital signals were just fine. 10 minuted after we arrived to the hospital with him. I was able to auscultated the lungs of a patient with tuberculosis, and attend a drunk Honduran young man who got hit with a bat. This were some of the calls we received today. It was an interesting but tiring day.