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10 in orleans
49 i'm in right from tulane all right
we're going to an
overturned vehicle
oh that is definitely overturned mm-hmm
damn everybody's out this does not look
good
62.49 on scene who was in the car
she hit the fire hi how old are you
what you heard that baby just your arm
can you feel your fingers no
yes ma'am yes ma'am is that the only
place you
you heard nothing all right we're gonna
take care of you all right i promise
she got a broken arm or they just
wrapped i don't know we're gonna have to
unwrap it because it looks like it's
wrapped with a pillow
she was the only one in the vehicle
bystanders had actually wrapped her arm
with everything i think people
could grab out of their vehicles and
we're not sure what's under there
what's going on oh you're going to the
hospital that's all
you're going to be all right let's relax
all right we're going to take all that
off baby and check that arm out real
quick can you move your fingers forward
wiggle your fingers i can't even see her
fingers yet so
are you hurting anywhere my arm hurts
okay we're about to look at it right now
i know baby i'm sorry but i got to get
all this stuff assuming you got a
laceration on your arm that's why they
wrapped it like that so we got to figure
out if it's bleeding still so we can
stop it that's all
it's no big deal you remember what
happened i was driving
and i'm running into the firehouse okay
you had your seatbelt on yes okay
that would be university that is not
give me that trauma pad
all right so look was your window down
do you remember okay
you got a pretty good wound right there
where it looks like your arm actually
came out of the car and drug on the
ground
okay she's gonna be at room for
everything's fine i can see
just all of the adipose tissue the
muscle
the bone everything it is way more
serious than i expected
and she has no feeling in his arms do
you feel her touching your arm at all
yeah up here all right can you move your
fingers
no it's important hold this up really
try move your fingers for me
okay okay so you might have a little bit
of tendon damage in your arm
okay can you feel this
yeah a little correction right here all
right
i'll hold it you're gonna feel a big
sticker over here buddy
you also have a broken arm to the bottom
left of it that's why it hurts so bad
it's obvious that she has several
injuries which that leads me to believe
that she probably has internal injuries
as well
she's a trauma coach she needs to get to
the hospital as quickly as possible
3232 code three uh room four
it's all good but you're gonna be just
fine all right we out
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oh that injury how about that arm
she's lucky it didn't roll over one more
time was not amputated oh i know
i wanted real i mean she was missing
chunk
yeah i'd have been pissed because my
tattoo would have been ruined
you know how mad i would have been i'd
be like oh hell no
i don't know like you better go find
that skate you better go get it that's
exactly what i was about to say i was
like
we ain't leaving until you find my hunk
of skin so i can sew it back on
and that hunk of me did i miss you
better go find that too i'd have been
pissed
that's for sure
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i'm already growing my boat right into a
wreck right up in there
safely i do not remember being this
tired a long time
but i mean we literally just worked two
16 hour days in a row
we arrive on scene to a car crash
between an suv and a taxi cab
they actually hit so hard that the door
was ripped off one of the vehicles and
was stuck to the other
hello when that happens you definitely
kind of perk up because there could be
some serious injury involved hey what's
your name
what's your name broken what
okay we see a female laying across the
back seat
with an obviously broken leg how are we
doing this just put a board in here
slide her out
it's a tip-fib right yeah open or closed
it looks
close everybody else is okay yeah
there's a little kid with a little bump
on his eye but he's fine cool i think we
need to slide her
actually out that way we can kind of
support her leg as much as possible when
you have a long bone fracture you want
to make sure that you immobilize that
bone from moving around especially when
you're moving the patient around because
bad things can happen you have a lot of
blood vessels that run up and down your
legs and it can
possibly cause you an injury that make
things worse
all right this is really going to suck
i'm just going to warn you but i'm going
to try to make it as easy as possible
okay
if you need to squeeze me scream
whatever you need to do do not be
ashamed okay
all right i'm gonna grab you under your
arms and we'll pull you onto this board
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that's it
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i'm going to just move your torso
uncross your arms for just a second no
liquor
nick this is you down there
that's going to support your leg okay
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it's almost over all right that's it
just relax okay we're going to get you
in the truck we're going to give you
some medicine
i'm going to go set that up all right
nick you want morphy yeah
these are the last few bumps okay
darling is getting you in
you all right this lady was in so much
pain that she's actually physically
shaking from the shock factor and
it kind of pulls at your heart strings
so you want to make it as comfortable as
possible for them
luckily for us we have medicine that we
can give to kind of knock the edge off
everybody's fine everybody's good and
you're gonna be fine you're just gonna
have to have a little surgery on your
leg
kind of put everything back together but
you're gonna be okay so this is gonna be
morphine
treating his arm out for me went ahead
and gave five
to start cool so she got five uh marking
here beautiful
where'd you get your leg caught on do
you remember was it the center console
you don't know i'm a miter on my legs
fall okay
and my husband ate our doctor okay all
right
okay y'all here visiting
okay yeah we're good thank you
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12.
my four-year-old was right in front of
me
well he was completely fine so everybody
was fine i decided you'd be unfortunate
enough to get your leg broken but
it's okay exercise glasses oh well you
might not be doing that too much but i
guarantee you'll be back on the feet
quickly because it's nice and easy it's
a clean break so it should be really
easy to prepare
the 35 year old female she's got a tip
rib fracture has closed
she's got an iv with some morphine on
board she's fully immobilized
we'll see in a couple minutes
it really sucks though think about it i
mean people just coming out here have a
good time
trying to pay attention to the parades
and next thing you know you got a
leg fracture that's pretty much going to
keep you out of oh man she caught a bad
break
there you go
we got a call for a moody vehicle
accident a car hit a dump truck
and there's a possibly somebody ejected
i really it's my least favorite calls to
go on
mbas especially on the interstate
because it's just so dangerous
and unfortunately it happens way too
often that one of the first responders
gets hit
or the vehicle gets hit
seriously come on people break it up
the bumper-to-bumper traffic tells you a
lot it tells you that it is a big
accident
it's including all the lanes there's
obviously something big going on
i don't know how we're gonna get up
there we're gonna have to move i don't
think they can they're so
tightly packed it's definitely
frustrating to know that someone is
potentially very injured
ahead of you and and you can't get to
them
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trying you put me on scene trying to get
through traffic
you're good damn that does look uh
really good good job
we see like a ridiculous amount of
damage a sports car has obviously hit
a dump truck and another car and i'm
thinking well you know there's going to
be someone injured on the scene
who is in this car what you mean he's
walking the bridge
the first lady i come up to says that
the guy was in the most damaged car
her exact words were his brains were
hanging out and he was walking down the
bridge
and i see this guy walking down the
bridge
though you all right
i'm good caught up with a guy all the
way down the bridge
and luckily for him he had no major
injury uh he was just really scared
didn't know what to do
yeah all right man you got a little
scratch on your nose nothing else i
could see
i don't know how that dude's even alive
man the whole
roof is stuck in the back of the dump
truck back there
holy hell man the passenger side of the
camaro was completely destroyed
wow you're lucky man look at it that way
it could have been a lot worse
you could be your brains on the steering
wheel you know what i mean if you
get out of the pasture they'd have been
dead as insane
as this wreck looks on the outside
everyone is completely uninjured
so there's nothing left for us to do
here
that's unbelievable i can't even i can't
believe he don't he
that dude doesn't even have a scratch on
him i tell you what when it's your time
to go you go and when it's not
you don't go it did every day you see it
like that dude should be dead
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on scene wow
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she was in her seat there's a
three-year-old in the car also was in
her seat
got a busted nose mom's probably on a
broken arm
there's nobody in the other vehicle
yeah all right we get a call for uh mva
there are two vehicles one that is still
smoking and
another that has two children in it
along with the driver
the driver of the car that caught on
fire she was very lucky apparently a
passerby stopped and opened the door and
helped her out of the vehicle before it
got fully engulfed in flames
we got around i hadn't
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this i think this one has uh the seat
the car seat in it
the baby is maybe four or five months
old she's a newborn almost
i see some brush burns on her like
little abrasions to the head
she starts crying so that's always a
good sign oh
goodness because that means that they're
feeling
any pain that they might have and that
they're scared and know what's going on
if you have a baby that's quiet that has
just been through
uh something as traumatic as this that's
always a cause of concern
that one's okay i get the baby girl all
set
and firemen bring her older sister in
okay what hurts you
that hurt all right all right you want
me to get you a little something that's
cold and put some coal
on it all right i start to talk to her
and and assess her
i see she's got some swelling to her
lips and nose area you want a whole lab
you want me to hold it all right i'm
going to sit right here and hold it for
you
can you wiggle your feet oh very good
i like those tennis shoes
uh the firemen were taking care of the
mom apparently she had a um
what appeared to be a broken arm or a
broken elbow
um your mama we're gonna get your mommy
in in just a minute okay
the baby look i got your baby she's
doing good too
she keeps asking about the baby i
thought she was asking about her sister
i kept telling her baby's right here
she's fine she's fine
come to find out she was talking about
her baby doll christine's gonna go get
your doll okay
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she's got that little mark on her head
that would meet trauma criteria
the mom is in a lot worse shape than the
children so we need to get her to the
doctor
are you all right with them going to
ochsner or you want them at university
the two children they were very lucky
that
they were properly secured in car seats
and that's the only thing that saved
their lives if
that hadn't had been in play i'm almost
pretty sure it would have been at least
one fatality if not two
i keep thinking i'm having hot flashes
there's a male pinned inside of the car
and the car is upside down
and are you looking 62-15 20 win area
looking also
y'all have a call back you did say the
200 block we
actually just hung up with
yeah i see him as we pull up there's a
vehicle on its side and i can see
through the windshield that there's
still someone in it for the 220 we'll
see
they're clear on the keely watch that
car it don't roll
you have one patient at this time but if
that car turns over you're gonna have
multiple patients
there you go he's coming out
and canceled fire the neighbors helped
get the guy out of the car
on a daily basis people are always there
to help people in the city have a lot of
heart
it makes me proud to a new orleanian and
10 boy
23 old boy thank you
all right come right over here hey i'm
speaking
you speak a little english okay
that's the american version of spanish
right it's
exactly i don't know how to say seat
belt though seat belt
were you wearing your seat belt the
challenge is with treating someone that
doesn't speak
english is that i speak pretty poor
spanish
can you get the information from them
yeah i try all right
you have an id dna id no no
uh there we go uh hey we got that elsa
huh
uh eddie dan really damn damn use the
outside
new ones ems has the elsa it's set up
that it's gonna
24 hours a day we come in contact with
an english-speaking representative
and she can contact us with dozens of
different languages
all right we need uh spanish
interpreters keeley with new orleans gms
ah i have the uh patient on side of me
right now the first thing i need
is he hurting anywhere and if so where
is he hurting that
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since my spanish isn't as good as it
should be it's great to have the elsa as
a primary means of communication
how did this happen okay that's fine
thank you it was a big help
see if you don't have dan around we got
elsa hey
look you did your thanks speak to speak
come and stop
be safe be strong let's do this get that
stretcher in here
they're not dead i can work with that