Michelle Memorial EMS

Cross Lake, Manitoba

This page is about my trip to Cross Lake Manitoba. I'm working with the EMS service to complete my clinical for Primary Care Paramedic. If you are looking at a map, find Lake Winnipeg and look at the top right corner (roughly). We are on 24hr duty so I will post updates as I can.
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Sunday June 3rd 07

OK, we paid for the quiet time. Three call outs from zero dark thirty to 0500hrs. One was an infant with respiratory distress. What a little trooper. No crying and just as good as gold. Not afraid of the strangers or the equipment. His vitals were pretty good considering.
Had a nice big breakfast in case the day is as busy as the night. Pretty cool out this morning. Quite a change.

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Saturday June 2nd 07

Had a full sleep last night, no calls. Scary. Got up early and was called to a forearm compound fracture (broke through skin) and then a chest pain call (relieved with nitro). Then back for a bannock breakfast. Scrumptious. Then some medivacs, pretty quiet day....so far.
I love it up here. Hardly any bugs and the weather has been great. Everybody is very friendly.

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Friday June 1st 07

Lot's of medivacs today. Suspected broken arm (got to splint), appendix (thought it better if a doctor operated) and odds and sods of medical and trauma. 
The weather has been beautiful, calm and warm. A lot less bugs than down south.
You need to try and grab sleep when you can between the calls. There is no predictability.
Accommodations are great and the ambulance is a 2002. More appliances than we have at home. I've been playing with the microwave,, its such a novelty.

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Thursday May 31st 07

Well the trip wasn't too remarkable on the way up except that there were more bears than camping spaces.

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