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Hyperventilation Syndrome-when one "overbreathes" due to anxiety or stress. By breathing too fast and deep you will upset the normal balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the bloodstream, which causes dizzyness and tingling throughout parts of the body. If severe enough a person can faint from this although that is pretty rare.
In certain cultures hyperventilation and fainting, or rather "psuedo-fainting" are common ways for a woman to end an argument and make others feel guilty. Make no mistake, she is definitely experiencing those symptoms, but she learned them from her mother. And the fainting is pretend. It is a learned behavior. Its cultural and very common in the hispanic and Fillipino cultures. So common in fact that there is a nickname for it-"hispanic panic".
So we get this typical bullshite "unconscious female" call. Its real obvious. this hispanic woman is lying on the floor hyperventilating and at the same time holding her eyes tightly shut (which is an obvious sign of complete bullshirt since an unconscious person's eyelids are relaxed and easily opened). She is also thrashing about and kicking her arms and legs and generally being uncooperative. So we gotta take her because we leave her like this. We put her on a chair with seatbelts to carry her out but she slides out of the belts/removes them/swings her arms wildly etc etc. Then I see her reach up with both hands and literally choke the spit out of herself. She has got both hands around her own flukin neck and she is choking herself to the point of gagging and coughing and her eyes are bugging out. Well thats a new one.
So we ended up tying her hands and feet to the stretcher before removing her from the house to the ambulance. If I wasn't so hungry at the time I would have thought it was funny.
EM Ambulance medic in SF...
In certain cultures hyperventilation and fainting, or rather "psuedo-fainting" are common ways for a woman to end an argument and make others feel guilty. Make no mistake, she is definitely experiencing those symptoms, but she learned them from her mother. And the fainting is pretend. It is a learned behavior. Its cultural and very common in the hispanic and Fillipino cultures. So common in fact that there is a nickname for it-"hispanic panic".
So we get this typical bullshite "unconscious female" call. Its real obvious. this hispanic woman is lying on the floor hyperventilating and at the same time holding her eyes tightly shut (which is an obvious sign of complete bullshirt since an unconscious person's eyelids are relaxed and easily opened). She is also thrashing about and kicking her arms and legs and generally being uncooperative. So we gotta take her because we leave her like this. We put her on a chair with seatbelts to carry her out but she slides out of the belts/removes them/swings her arms wildly etc etc. Then I see her reach up with both hands and literally choke the spit out of herself. She has got both hands around her own flukin neck and she is choking herself to the point of gagging and coughing and her eyes are bugging out. Well thats a new one.
So we ended up tying her hands and feet to the stretcher before removing her from the house to the ambulance. If I wasn't so hungry at the time I would have thought it was funny.
EM Ambulance medic in SF...
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