EMT BUST IN HOSP FORGERY
By PHILIP MESSING
Last updated: 2:20 am
March 14, 2009
Posted: 2:14 am
March 14, 2009
A FDNY emergency medical technician was busted yesterday for forging a nurse's signature because he didn't want to stick around a Bronx hospital after dropping off a 5-year-old boy, authorities say.
Paul Casson, 28, rushed the boy, injured in a car accident, to Lincoln Hospital in December, according to the city Department of Investigation.
Sources said the nurse told him she would be right with him, but the medic became impatient and allegedly forged her signature on a "patient-care report" so he could bail.
Casson was suspended without pay.
From the NY Post 3/14
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
BAD MEDS TOO HOT TO HAND OUT
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS ( New York Post )
January 11, 2009 --
A piping-hot radiator placed next to a locker full of drugs in a Harlem EMS station made a state health inspector's blood run cold last week.
The ambulance unit's entire narcotic supply - 20 vials each of morphine, Valium and midazolam - was tossed after it was discovered that temperatures inside Station 16 had reached a steamy 92 degrees and were likely higher inside the metal locker, sources said.
The narcotics start to lose their potency - and run the risk of altering their chemical compositions - when temperatures top 86 degrees, according to the manufacturers' guidelines.
When a drug's chemical compound alters, "severe allergic reactions could occur," a Manhattan doctor told The Post.
"Heat changes the composition, and you don't know who's going to have a bad response," said Dr. Tom Bolte, a Midtown physician.
"It could be life-threatening for some patients."
Medics told The Post they've been complaining for years about the ancient heating system at Station 16 in Harlem Hospital and how it routinely bakes the facility - and the lock box - during the winter.
All Station 16 ambulances were taken out of service Thursday morning and sent to a neighboring EMS house to switch out their potentially tainted meds with new ones, sources said.
gotis@nypost.com
January 11, 2009 --
A piping-hot radiator placed next to a locker full of drugs in a Harlem EMS station made a state health inspector's blood run cold last week.
The ambulance unit's entire narcotic supply - 20 vials each of morphine, Valium and midazolam - was tossed after it was discovered that temperatures inside Station 16 had reached a steamy 92 degrees and were likely higher inside the metal locker, sources said.
The narcotics start to lose their potency - and run the risk of altering their chemical compositions - when temperatures top 86 degrees, according to the manufacturers' guidelines.
When a drug's chemical compound alters, "severe allergic reactions could occur," a Manhattan doctor told The Post.
"Heat changes the composition, and you don't know who's going to have a bad response," said Dr. Tom Bolte, a Midtown physician.
"It could be life-threatening for some patients."
Medics told The Post they've been complaining for years about the ancient heating system at Station 16 in Harlem Hospital and how it routinely bakes the facility - and the lock box - during the winter.
All Station 16 ambulances were taken out of service Thursday morning and sent to a neighboring EMS house to switch out their potentially tainted meds with new ones, sources said.
gotis@nypost.com
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