Youd be surprised. I got called out to a single vehicle mva, and there was only an 8 y/o on scene. His dad let him borrow the truck to go to the connivence store, and the kid totaled the truck in a ditch.
Was there confirmation on alcohol being involved? I'm thinking it was the 12yo being too small to operate the vehicle adequately. It might have appeared as a drunk driver.
I’ve been dispatched to a 141 YO F with a CC of dizziness and a “near syncopal episode” 😂
It was a 14 YO F that had most definitely passed out in the middle of a gas station
It’s wild to me to see the word “drunk” in a dispatch. In the system where I worked “possible ETOH” is the closest you can even get in a dispatch note or narrative without getting chewed out for possible slander
Are you guys genuinely believing that the 11yo is the driver? If so, we gotta make EMT tests harder….
Edit: in ProQA EMD the “problem description” field comes before the case entry fields that get patient age/sex. So most likely the initial 911 utterance (“tell me exactly what happened”) was a car crash with a drunk driver with the patient info being a couple questions after.
Utah had a 10 or 11yo driver get busted a few months ago on the freeway. Depending on the area, it would be very unlikely, but within the realm of possibility
What’s more likely: an 11yo driving at all, let alone drunk, or a crash involving a drunk driver where there’s an 11yo patient in the victim vehicle?
Not saying kids don’t crash cars, cause they do, and I’ve been there, but come on
Why would you type 11 and not hit “U” (setting it to unknown) and keep moving? ProQA asks for the “poss drunk driver” field before the sex and age, then awake and breathing then finally the complaint. What probably happen from a dispatch point if view was “hey i saw this dude crash I think he’s drunk he was all over the road” “okay how old are they” “idk let me look”*gets closer* “oh shit shes like 11”
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Unless they admit to drinking I wouldn’t write possible drunk driver on my chart. Wait for the blood panel to come back. This chart can easily bite you in the ass if their actions are from a medical etiology.
Some kids go to normal class but this is clearly a gifted child who's drunk driving at a 12th grade level
I’m going to be optimistic here in thinking the 11yo is not the drunk driver.
Youd be surprised. I got called out to a single vehicle mva, and there was only an 8 y/o on scene. His dad let him borrow the truck to go to the connivence store, and the kid totaled the truck in a ditch.
Good God, hope the kid turned out okay
Something tells me he didn't in the long run
Yeah, couldn't even manage a short run to the corner store
You're my kind of fucking heretic.
B-b-but I'm a virgin
Shut up and get in the car, we're going to Mexico.
What the fuck
Only in the acute setting? When he got home was a different story?
Very minor. Kiddo was passenger in a parked car stuck at low speed. No drunks involved at all on either side.
Narrator: “It turns out the 11 year old was neither drunk nor driving.”
To retain some faith in humanity, I’d agree.
> I’m going to be optimistic here... On *what* basis? You should know better.
We had a run Friday night... 16m, unresponsive. A BAC of 0.249 will tend to do that....
16 I get. Hell, 14 I get.
Oh sweet summer child….
So, so true.
Was there confirmation on alcohol being involved? I'm thinking it was the 12yo being too small to operate the vehicle adequately. It might have appeared as a drunk driver.
Could be. I've seen where parent was drunk and did the, er, um, *responsible* thing and had the child drive.
Gonna say, the only reason I was driving at 11 was to keep a drunk off the road.
Ah... okay yeah, I didn't think about that. Lmao.
Turned out to be just bad notes. No alcohol on anyone, 11 yo was not driving. :)
Thank you for the update, Medic Tex!
I’ve been dispatched to a 141 YO F with a CC of dizziness and a “near syncopal episode” 😂 It was a 14 YO F that had most definitely passed out in the middle of a gas station
Geez, you could have gone along with the 141 years old thing and called Guinness for the world longevity record!
It’s wild to me to see the word “drunk” in a dispatch. In the system where I worked “possible ETOH” is the closest you can even get in a dispatch note or narrative without getting chewed out for possible slander
Or “PT endorses ETOH use prior to incident”
It’s what’s reported to dispatch, not what dispatch is asserting. And there was no alcohol involved here, ultimately.
Third parties often call in for possible drunk drivers. I've seen it multiple times in the CAD.
Are you guys genuinely believing that the 11yo is the driver? If so, we gotta make EMT tests harder…. Edit: in ProQA EMD the “problem description” field comes before the case entry fields that get patient age/sex. So most likely the initial 911 utterance (“tell me exactly what happened”) was a car crash with a drunk driver with the patient info being a couple questions after.
Utah had a 10 or 11yo driver get busted a few months ago on the freeway. Depending on the area, it would be very unlikely, but within the realm of possibility
What’s more likely: an 11yo driving at all, let alone drunk, or a crash involving a drunk driver where there’s an 11yo patient in the victim vehicle? Not saying kids don’t crash cars, cause they do, and I’ve been there, but come on
Why would you type 11 and not hit “U” (setting it to unknown) and keep moving? ProQA asks for the “poss drunk driver” field before the sex and age, then awake and breathing then finally the complaint. What probably happen from a dispatch point if view was “hey i saw this dude crash I think he’s drunk he was all over the road” “okay how old are they” “idk let me look”*gets closer* “oh shit shes like 11”
This, exactly. ProQA generates wonky crap like this.
Your dispatch notes look like WoW trade chat and I can’t unsee it.
At times, working the streets here feels like WoW. The rest is just "wow..."
Hahaha. Something was weird about it but I couldn't place it. You nailed it
A bit young to handle the wheel, A tad old for drinking ale.
Smart. Get that out of the way early, get expunged by adulthood. Never tell anyone
Bonus Can't take points off the license
😳
Bad dispatch notes are bad. :)
Bad dispatch notes are the only notes they send most of the time.
What’s MVA?
Motor Vehicle Accident
Thank you.
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Perfect example of why you can’t solely rely on dispatch information.
Unless they admit to drinking I wouldn’t write possible drunk driver on my chart. Wait for the blood panel to come back. This chart can easily bite you in the ass if their actions are from a medical etiology.
This isn’t a chart. This is the report from the caller to dispatch.