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Do you ever feel like we’re playing a losing game?

The other day I went through my cardiac arrest statistics. Dispatched to 91 cardiac arrests since I became a medic. ~30/year. I have worked approximately 50% of those. I have EXACTLY 1 cardiac arrest save.

ONE!.

If this were baseball, I’d have a batting average of 0.01098901098901099.  OOOH! If we call all of the no start calls “sacrifices” I’d have an average of 0.021739130434782608. If we only say that the ~45ish times I’ve actually worked an arrest count as “at bats”, then I have an amazing 0.022222222222222223.

In baseball the record for lowest career batting average for a player with more than 2,500 at-bats belongs to Bill Bergen, a catcher who played from 1901 to 1911 and recorded a .170 average in 3,028 career at-bats. I’m well below the “Mendoza Line”

What is YOUR batting average?

Seriously. It did. I take ambien for sleep(12.5mg XR), as the chances of me sleeping on my own are not so good. But if I am awake past that first 40 minutes it makes me do crazy crap. Like post on my blog. Or clean out the fridge. OR trim, cut and cure 40 lbs of deer meat for Jerky slices. I’ve rearranged my 75 gallon aquarium and not remembered. I’ve don a LOT of things and not remembered.

It is mildly terrifying to know how much can happen with so little control. MY wife sure like the cleaning version of me though, so I doubt I’ll be changing over soon.

Do any of you have first hand experience of the crazy things meds made you do?  We hear stories all the time from patients and coworkers, but I’d like to hear your own stories.

ON a clinical note, what do we need to look for with these odd situations? Can a patient sedated with ambien be reliable?

Drop me a line!

Ambien Side Effects

• Constipation
• Difficulty with coordination
• Hallucinations
• Disorientation
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Binge eating
• Memory problems (see Ambien CR and Memory Problems)
• Spinning sensation (vertigo)
• Nausea
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) – heartburn is the most common symptom
• Heart palpitations
• Fatigue
• Muscle pain.

The passengers and crew gave “the entire country an incalculable gift: They saved the capital from attack,” an untold amount of lives and denied al-Qaida the symbolic victory of “smashing the center of American government,” Clinton said.

They were “ordinary people given no time at all to decide and they did the right thing,” he said. “And 2,500 years from now, I hope and pray to God that people will still remember this.”

Here is a little preview of our family Vacay…

As we near on the anniversary of 9/11, the memories of my grandfathers final days are turning pretty deep.

I’d started a post, and maybe I’ll get back to it… but then I just read my short post from a year ago.

I can’t stop the tears.

I miss you, Grandpa.

If you’re not going to use it properly, there isn’t much point in doing it all.

CAR SEAT BASICS

Medic/FF/LEO friends: When you see a car seat installed in a crappy fashion, take the time to educate the parents on how to do it right. It’ll save you from treating the baby that was ejected 180 feet into a corn field.

Even “cheap” seats work well, when used properly.