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Child Emergencies

This post was originally published on golifelog.com. I just came back home from my quarterly paramedic training. This time we talked about child emergencies. Pseudocroup/Croup, asthma, drowning and a few others. As always, it was quite interesting. Although I learned all of those disease patterns back when I

Speeding

This post was originally published on golifelog.com. As you might know, I’ve been a paramedic for quite some time (ten years in 2025). I’ve been a driver of an ambulance vehicle for almost as long, too. Probably around a year shorter. So I’ve seen a bunch

Death

This post was originally published on golifelog.com. I was on a paramedic duty today. After the concert yesterday, we arrived back home at around 1 am. I had to get up by 6 again, so I could be at the local rescue station (where I’m doing my duties)

You can’t blame the elderly for being elderly

This post was originally published on golifelog.com. As promised yesterday, here is a small story from yesterday’s paramedic shift. It started out pretty slow, and we managed to eat breakfast together. Together, meaning the three car teams (including me and my co-driver) and the one paramedic driving the

Paramedic Saturday

This post was originally published on golifelog.com. 09:50am I'm kinda writing on the go today. I've started a paramedic duty at 7am this morning and will be here until at least 7pm. So this post will be split into multiple parts probably, luckily there

Weekend

This Blog Post was originally published on adagia.org. On Saturday, I started a 12-hour paramedicshift. As I walked into the standby room, I encountered an emergency doctor I hadn't seen in a while. Right after breakfast, we were called to our first trip, so I couldn'

Stroke Unit Availability

> This Blog Post was originally published on adagia.org [https://adagia.org/]. Yesterday I was doing a paramedic [https://adagia.org/topic/642] day shift again. Our first mission brought us to a doctor [https://adagia.org/topic/1112] whose patient had typical signs of a stroke [https://adagia.

January 7th - Why sleep when you can drive?

> This Blog Post was originally published on adagia.org [https://adagia.org/]. After the accident [https://adagia.org/topic/778] ( https://adagia.org/content/4005) my paramedic [https://adagia.org/topic/642] night shift continued to be hellish and without much sleep. A few minutes after we finished cleaning

Car vs. Person - a paramedic story that happened only minutes ago

> This Blog Post was originally published on adagia.org [https://adagia.org/]. Only a few minutes ago I came back from the first mission of the night. As I've written I'm doing a paramedic [https://adagia.org/topic/642] night shift and thus it was

January 2nd - In the middle of my Duty

> This Blog Post was originally published on adagia.org [https://adagia.org/]. In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep From the mountains of faith To the river so deep Not that dramatic but the 17th hour of my paramedic shift is coming along "