By Charles Ndyamwijuka | Operation Manager
Natukunda Elizabeth GEC ECP Share her experience while on ambulance call & dispatch shift, It was on 26th when they called us to pick a pregnant mother who had a slightly raised blood pressure. On reaching the referring facility, the mother was well appearing, talking and was able to take herself to the ambulance, blood pressure was 160/100mmHg.
As soon as we started the journey to the destination facility, the mother started convulsing non-stop. The unfortunate part of it, there was no ant-convulsant in an ambulance. Confusion came in when the care takers started screaming that their patient is going to die and the ambulance driver thought the vehicle had caught fire due to the noise. What I did was to protect the airway with an airway piece plus putting the patient in a recovery position. It was like a dance in the ambulance due to frequent seizures.
Fortunately, we managed to beat the traffic and reached the hospital when the patient was still alive.
Lesson learnt is to always think beyond the box when transferring a patient because anything can happen unexpectedly.
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