Several Severed Fingers!!

No, no, that was what we were dispatched for. The reality, while unique and my first severed item, was not quite that dramatic.
If you are looking at this and the post time is around 03h54, that is right. The hours on this job are not ideal! Still, this was so worth crawling out bed for, even though I'd only recently gotten to sleep...

But this is what EMTs live for. Do we want to see people hurt? No, of course not. But it is fascinating when someone is injured - these types of calls are the most educational and high-intensity and if you are in this service, well, it is the stuff that is discussed and mulled over and exciting to all of us.

Before you start with the faces and "Eeeeeiiiiwwww"s remember that an EMT that is upset or distressed by blood is not one you'd want on your emergency! So of course if it is not disgusting, it is interesting!

This certainly was. It was one digit that was cut diagonally all around the finger but with no visible bone or bone-related deformity (this is not to say that the bone might not have been severed - we could not see it). But the cut was totally around and the fingernail... well. I have never seen a fingernail facing me when the thumb is to me! That certainly wasn't right! So we took a good look at it and it was easy to see. The towel that someone had the forethought to wrap around the injured hand had soaked up most of the blood so that the view of the injured finger was unobscured (many, many times the trauma injuries are difficult to really discern due to the amount of blood [especially if the blood is heavy and starting to clot] and so it is not easy to really know what you are seeing). This was quite something. We did block the view for the patient (who, by the way, was very calm and really quite easily one of the best A&O trauma patients I've ever had), and examined it without his really seeing it. Usually patients are not into seeing injuries that they've sustained.

On scene, however, the person assisting our patient was a complete pain, so we pretty much chased that individual away, saying that we had to take over patient care. Thank the gods the pain did not come with us. That would have made us crazy. And the paramedics, once they checked our patient out, cleared the scene to us and we went to Motown.

So, no, it was not multiple severed fingers but it was still one of the best calls I've been on!

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