What's the craziest thing you've heard over the ambulance radio?

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Specializes in OB, Med/Surg, Ortho, ICU.

Hello everyone,

I ran a search for this one and didn't find it, so I apologize if this is a repeat thread. Just for fun, what is the craziest or funniest thing you've heard over the ambulance radio for report? Personally, I had a first responder when asked what the patient's vitals were, he didn't know and couldn't clarify to me why he had no vitals. Another that was told to me, but one I didn't hear, was, "Patient is combative during CPR.". Anyone else have some funny ones?

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56 y/o male with chief complaint of erection X 4 hours.....

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My husband is an emt, I asked him what's the weirdest thing he's had to report and he said "patients main complaint is stubbed toe, occurred 2 days ago, vital signs stable

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My husband is an emt, I asked him what's the weirdest thing he's had to report and he said "patients main complaint is stubbed toe, occurred 2 days ago, vital signs stable

Did he survive?

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Specializes in Intermediate care.

Not funny...but still worth sharing.

i don't get to work much with EMT and ER. but i have a scanner radio on my smart phone (Ha!)- most amazing thing in the world. I can actually listen to stuff occuring ANYWHERE in the world. Australia is always a fun one to listen to.

Anyway...i was listening to my scanner radio as im driving home in a crazy crazy winter storm so i know the road conditions and which roads to stay off of (living in WI, we get awful winter roads). so i had it sitting on my dashboard, and an ambulance calls over the scanner radio, it was calling for assistance because it went into a ditch with a patient in the back. The patient was in the ambulance because he went into a ditch with his car and was injured. Talk about a bad day...

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It was a close call, but by the grace of God, he pulled through;)

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I took a report call once from EMS that made me just turn around, hang up, and have to go sit down. This old lady called 911 once on a busy Friday night because her cat peed on her leg. She just wanted to get checked out...

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Specializes in NICU, ER.

I took a report call once from EMS that made me just turn around, hang up, and have to go sit down. This old lady called 911 once on a busy Friday night because her cat peed on her leg. She just wanted to get checked out...

TTTTTTT Triage...... :-) this made me laugh!!!

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Specializes in ER.

I honestly had an EMT tell me, "his heart rate is 62, and his pulse is 89." I was like... whhhatt?!

and a nursing home report that said,"He's combative. He wont keep his O2 on. We have it on 2L by face mask...." I was like, "I would be, too, you are SMOTHERING HIM!"

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Specializes in Cardiovascular, ER.

I had a pt who slipped in a banana peel and wanted to get checked out. It was difficult not to think of a looney toones cartoon. They were fine btw : )

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

Anderson Creek, N. Carolina:

"CPR in progress... patient is combative..." :eek:

(Seriously, I have witnesses.)

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Specializes in ER.

"CPR in progress, patient very combative, please have security standing by"

If I'm lying I'm dying, this really came over the radio to our ER back around '92-93. Was some volunteer ambo service rolling in, I asked if patient was alert and breathing on their own and they confirmed and I instructed to stop CPR, continue transport and advise of changes. Reply "we can't stop CPR without a docs order", ER doc on radio gave order to stop. Reply "we can't stop CPR til you are physically present to give the order" to which the doc let out an impressively strung together group of words that can't be repeated in many circles. I've never seen a group of EMT's take the butt chewing like that since, the doc was waiting at the sidewalk for them. Doc was ******, patient was ******, I was laughing like crazy in the corner, turned out the guy vaso-vagaled when they stood him up from his recliner and the goof troop leaped into action.

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