Suicide

[MainFramed]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
Sorry to hear that.

 

[911paramedic]

*****warning, graphic paramedic experience to follow*****

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Severe depression is a very bad thing, and the majority of suicides are among the younger peple.

As a medic I have witnessed (ie, pronounced dead) many people because of this. I wish I never had to see many of them because they were quite unfortunate. The one that I remember the most is a man, around 30, that hung himself in the bedroom when his wife and two kids were in the other room. We did revive him but I know nothing else about that.

The other one I remember the most was an attempted suicide of a man in his 70's. We even had an intern I was teaching that day. We had many calls and they she, the intern, said "everything but a gunshot". The next call was for a "gunshot wound to the head". We showed up to find an elderly man slumped over on a iron table, and clotted blood everywhere and a pistol on the ground. We secured the weapon, and started to check him out, it was very strange for me even as a veteran paramedic, he was alive.

Turns out he tried to shoot himself by shooting himself under the chin. The bullet went through his jaw, fracturing it badly, splitting his tongue, and following its path out his forhead. There was a wound right between his eyebrows, but it was small so we thought that was his second shot (same shot, went from the chin up and out of his forhead, following the nasal cavity). My intern had to ride in the front because the FD ended up with me because I told them I needed help with this critical of a patient. Later the doc said how well I did because I never intubated (inserted a breathing tube) into him. He only needed suctioning and I used forceps to hold his "tounge and broken mandible" out of the way so he could breath.

He did survive but I never knew why he did it.