Paramedics Share Deaths That Could've Been Prevented (r/AskReddit)

if the workers have read it what's the most avoidable death you've ever seen probably anytime someone could have worn a seatbelt but didn't not completely sure if I'm interpreting this right but people who take off their medical alarm well-known brand life alert to shower it seems like half the dead bored as I go on have a medical alarm but they took it off and slipped in the shower or while getting out those things are usually water resistant and that's an extremely common place to slip and fall I was an Army Combat Medic EMT be the worst completely avoidable death was when we got a call that an Afghan soldier nearby was having chest pains and their own medic was really concerned about it so they sent him to our base on the drive over there convoy had to stop suddenly one of the guys riding in the back of a pickup truck fell off the back because he wasn't wearing any kind of seatbelt or harness he probably would have been ok but the truck behind them wasn't able to stop as quickly so he got caught between the two he probably would have survived but he wasn't wearing his helmet either his skull popped like a grape of course in my opinion 100% of the deaths I saw were completely avoidable especially because after nearly two decades of war the US military pulled out and the Taliban immediately retook the area men women children and my brothers died for nothing oh by the way the chest pain guy was completely fine there was absolutely nothing wrong with him drunk drivers way too many drunk drivers and the poor souls unlucky enough to be in their path when patients don't take their medicine lots of type 2 diabetics don't take their metformin or change their diet / exercise simply out of denial or they are too set in their ways end up with bad kidney failure or heart problems additionally had a patient who refused to take their medicine for their high blood pressure no reason just refused ended up with a brain bleed on his brain stem was a quadriplegic on a ventilator could not speak move or breathe on his own he was in his 30s take your medicine people as an Air MD me sir you are having a heart attack the cardiologist will be here shortly and we will be taking you to the cath lab as soon as we can patient I'm going outside to smoke patient rips off ECG leads and Deford pads walks out despite warnings from myself and others Em's radio 15 minutes later xxx year old male cardiac arrest CPR in progress it's hard to narrow it down to a specific one but I assure you it involves family that said we just wanted to wait and see what happened Medicare responded to a call for a person that fell on the roof of a building it was raining heavily that night details were ambiguous so we weren't quite sure what we were walking into showed up at the same time as fire and PD so we all went to the roof of this hotel together had to be about 60 stories in the lobby is this teenager hyperventilating saying he's dead over and over security can't figure out what's going on except that the kid had indicated he had come down the roof himself and his friend is still up there we head on up and ended up having to climb over machinery and through some narrow catwalks we reach what I think will like these massive vents and there's the kids friend his neck was snapped and he was lying in a pool of blood we just pronounced him dead right there laying next to him was a broken expensive DSLR camera turns out this guy and his buddy would sneak into skyscrapers and construction sites climbed to the highest points with no safety equipment so they could grab photographs and posted on their blog I'm sure you've seen those videos slash gifs of young people doing the same thing with go press and stuff so these kids snuck past security climbed over a fence on the roof security had to escort us to the roof because everything was locked by keypad and climbed this fence thing to try to stand on the edge to grab pictures like I mentioned before it was raining heavily and a ground up there was metal and slick this kid was supposed to graduate high school in a couple months and now he's dead because he was driving for Internet by doing some dangerous [ __ ] what broke my heart a bit was I was still on scene when the supervisors called the parents who didn't even live in this city as per the friend they would sneak out to go pull these stunts so I can't imagine being the mom or dad and answering that call at 2:00 a.m. being notified that the child you thought was sleeping down the hall was lying dead in the rain on a hotel roof miles away and all for what I used to be an ambulance officer and on the job it was suicides I had a guy slash his forearms with a knife then realized he didn't want to go through with it we got halfway to the hospital roughly before he checked out the most avoidable death I've seen was my grandmother though she went to hospital with a broken wrist she then developed a staph infection which meant a couple of days stay supposedly the orderlies and dropped her while moving beds and broke her hip which then lead to her getting pneumonia and her subsequent death from a healthy 69 year old woman with a broken wrist two dead in a bit over a week person in the hospital kept taking their EKG leads off because they didn't like the stickers on their chest they kept doing this after being warned had a heart attack and didn't get found until they couldn't be saved keep your damn leads on people was an EMT but this was prior to that when I was just a volunteer firefighter got called to a house fire when a grandmother had woken up her granddaughter and got safely out of the house unfortunately she decided to go back into the house and died of smoke inhalation mere feet from the door since it was a ways out in the county by the time we got there the house was fully involved meaning we couldn't go in had to fight the fire back to get through the door moral of the story don't go back into a building in fire where everyone is out safe things can be replaced but you can't I've posted this before but I once had a patient who had the look of someone with one foot in the grave who had near complete blockages in all three of the main blood vessels that supply the heart that's not super unusual and with open-heart surgery she probably had an excellent chance of a good what was different about this case we'll she had apparently she'd had the same thing happened to slightly less degrees not once not twice but three times over the previous six months and had refused surgery each time in favor of a Mediterranean diet she de compensated very quickly was emergently sedated and intubated and flown out to the big city Hospital for the surgery she should have received six months ago I'm pretty sure she did survive but did not have a great quality of life op I think you would really get a kick out of the Darwin Awards it's a website that compiles the most stupid deaths each year and gives the people Awards the only stipulations are they had to have killed themselves unintentionally not hurt anyone else in the process and not have had any children prior to their death that's why it's called the Darwin Awards notable entries include a man who strapped a jet engine to the back of his truck a dude who had a wacky run-in with a wobbly vending machine and a guy who tried to take a selfie with a bear DNP not m's but elderly / people with mobility problems not getting rid of the full hazards in their home / refusing to use their assistive devices random throw rugs can be a death sentence for folks who are for risks a broken hip for a geriatric part is usually a death sentence they aren't leaving that rehab facility also diabetes in general so many simple ways to mess it up obvious answer would be all of the overdoses but also many incidents in nursing homes where a patient will be found dead in the staff state they just saw them 30 minutes ago when that is definitely not the case the worse is apparent rolling on to their baby while asleep I haven't had that call yet but other crews did recently and it is just devastating to all involved family medics police fire everyone not Em's but in my lab at school they talked about safety in the lab and shared how there was this girl who was in a lab with lathe operated by spinning and her hair was long and got caught in the machine and pulled her to it and she died must wear a bun in those labs not even a ponytail will do you good guy stationed on a Coast Guard ship got hit in the head by a crane when it fell over the crane operator didn't put down the outriggers the big metal feet that stick out to stabilize the crane and it fell over victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time left behind four daughters and a wife people doing dumb things on the job moving an industrial generator sure stand directly under it while the loft is lowering it down have a truckload of 7,500 pound I beams that need to be offloaded off a flatbed sure thing do it by yourself with a forklift have a wood planer at a Furniture Factory that gets jammed go ahead stick your arm in there to unjam it dude cause massive internal bleeding from using a jackhammer incorrectly by the time his wife called 911 he was all but dead and had filled several small trash cans with blood he had vomited big guy too had to use firemen and the sling to get him down the stairs the whole time we were working on him and getting him down the stairs his wife was nagging him about not hiring someone to break up the pavement that he was such an idiot for trying to do it himself she didn't know these were the last words he'd hear from her not an ounce but my friend died of AIDS because he got tired of taking his medication he was born with it and was always a little crazy and an athlete kinda way a friend group never knew he was sick until he got hospitalized even then we didn't know anything but he had pneumonia when I went to see him his spine was visible and he kept telling us how they'd give him anything for pain whenever he asked which we all laughed at he died a month later laughing till the last day he expressed regret at having stopped his drugs his girlfriend who he'd infected was devastated as they just had twins he had watched his mom die from it completely avoidable death you

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Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2019