Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Not Traffic related but no doubt a message of importance. There is a glitch with Computicket's system which is causing serious confusion with regards to the City Hall Sessions. They have been telling people that the shows are sold out when in fact they are not. The seated balcony area has been sold out, but there is unreserved seating downstairs and plenty standing area tickets. If you plan to use their online system, just make sure you click on the prompts or notes to get to the right place, its 2 additional clicks and you there or just come down and buy your ticket at the door, and who knows you might just end up getting your tickets free as many spot prizes are been given. Thank you for your time
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
After being married 25 years, one day I took a look at my wife and said, "Honey, do you realize 25 years ago, I had a cheap apartment,a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10 inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25 year old blond. "Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and plasma screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 50 year old woman. It seems to me that you are not holding up your side of things!" Now my wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25 year old blond, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed....I shut up and took out the trash... Aren't older women great? They really know how to solve your mid-life crisis!
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The following shifts are available at events this coming weekend: Event: Fun Fair - School Fundraiser in Franschhoek Required: 2 x BLS (7hr & 11hr shifts each) Date: Fri 16th from 5pm till 12am & on Sat 17th from 1pm till 12am Perks: Petrol Allowance for Travel Event: Flamjangled Tea Party, Contermanskloof, Durbanville Required: 2 x BLS (24hr & 25hr shift) & 1 X ILS (24hr shift) Date: BLS/ILS = Fri 16th from 3pm till Sat 17th 3pm then BLS from Sat 17th 3pm till Sun 18th 4pm If you are interested in them extra dollars, confirm your spot asap. Contact me via 074 363 7744 / BBM 28E4A368 / garth@medicare-emr.co.za
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Mountain MVA Bonanza
2 MVA's involving bikers occurred less than 15min apart from each other not even a 100m apart on Sunday 19 February 2012 in the Franschhoek Pass. The first biker had a wobble going into a bend causing him to side swipe an oncoming car. He fractured both hands in the process. Moments later a vehicle stopped and informed me of a second one with the bikers still lying on the car around the corner.
Thankfully ER24 arrived and started loading the first biker so that I could investigate what was going on around the corner. When I got there I found a couple lying on the bonnet of the car. The wife was complaining of chest pain and had difficulty in breathing, whilst her husband had suffered a severe compound fracture to his right tib/fib. Both patient were in severe shock and confused.
Due to the situation and location, we requested the services of the Medicopter 2 to assist as we did not have ALS on scene with us. We stabilised the couple and the wife was loaded in with the first biker, whilst her husband was airlifted to an appropriate facility.
Thanks for the great service, if that was not enough, as I arrived back at the base, adjacent to the complex I found a demolition worker who had fallen off a 4m high scaffolding tower and had sustained multiple fractures in the process. Once again ER24 came through to assist and then was able to take the rest of the day off to enjoy my birthday with friends.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Journey to Gold
My 11yr old, Maya took the gold medal in a single handed swoop and jumping 2cm short of the current SA Record, watch this space people, Springbokkie here we come!!
Sunday, February 5, 2012
5 BLS Required for Event Standby in Stellenbosch 10/02/2012 from 11:30 - 21:30
This is the Prestige Inter-schools Athletics Meeting hosted by DF Malan, with Paul Roos, Paarl Gym and Bloemhof in attendance. 10hrs long, 4000 people, all track and field events.
Event resources will include Doctor, 2 x Ambulances, 1 x ALS, 2 x ILS, 6 x BLS & first aiders. Take note it is this Friday the 10th February 2012, if you are interested, contact me asap to book your spot! 074 363 7744 or via email on enquiries@medicare-emr.co.za
Look forward to hearing from you.
Medicare EMR
Public Warning Regarding Water Quality at Beaches
Deadly bug hits beaches By Lyse Comins
A Durban doctor, who contracted a deadly flesh-eating bacteria through a cut on his leg while surf-skiing in the ocean, is lucky to be alive and not to have lost the limb. Dr Peter Breedt of Hillcrest, a surf-ski enthusiast, is one of several people who have got sick after surfing or swimming at city beaches in recent months.
And, as we enter one of the hottest months of the year, one of the country’s leading water-quality experts, microbiologist Professor Eugene Cloete, dean of Stellenbosch University’s Science Department, has warned about the dangers of swimming in the sea if one has cuts, wounds or chronic liver disease.
Breedt said that, together with a medical colleague, he had diagnosed that the naturally occurring bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, had eaten away the tissue of his foot after he had gone paddle-skiing from Ushaka Beach to the Bluff and back, in November. His wound has still not healed. “I had a little scratch on my leg and I went surf-skiing. The water was really smelly with a sulphur kind of smell,” Dr Breedt said.
“I have spoken to surgeons who say they see it quite often and that you can get it from swimming in river mouths,” Breedt said. Breedt said he started feeling sick and a black area developed on his foot six hours after surf skiing. “I took lots of antibiotics and had three operations to cut away the dead skin and I had skin grafts,” Breedt said. “It’s hard to believe that from being healthy one minute I could get so sick.”
Breedt said he believed he was alive because he was a doctor and had acted quickly. Professor Cloete described Vibrio vulnificus as one of the most dangerous pathogens that occur in the ocean – it grows where salt concentrations are high and temperatures warm. “The vibrio genos can grow in salt water when the ambient temperature is between 15°C and 35°C. It has been found in shellfish and in undercooked oysters.
“However, if you get it into a wound it causes septicaemia and shock and if it gets into the bloodstream you will get very sick.” Cloete said the mortality rate was up to 50 percent if the bacteria entered the bloodstream and treatment within 48 hours was vital.
“If you go beyond 48 hours the fatality rate increases,” Cloete said. "If you have got sores you should not be going into the sea because you are exposing the body to potential contamination, not only to vibrio vulnificus but to a number of organisms. I would not go into the sea with cuts, and if you scratch yourself on the rocks you could be exposed.
“People with chronic liver disease are more vulnerable because (if swallowed) it can enter the blood through the gastro-intestinal tract.” Cloete said he was not sure if the minimum infective dose had been established but if swallowed the bacteria would cause diarrhoea and vomiting.
“It is more rare than other water-borne diseases and not even as common as salmonella and e.coli. But we might think it is rare because it is not well reported.”
The only other reported case of vibrio vulnificus infection in Durban was in 2002 when fisherman Eric Erasmus died after he contracted the bacteria while collecting sand prawns in Durban harbour. Author RW Johnson had his leg amputated in 2009 after cutting himself on a rock, but the bacteria, aeromonas hydrophila, was believed to have been responsible for his infection.
eThekweni Municipality deputy head of water and sanitation, technical support, Frank Stevens, said the water was tested five times a month at 33 beaches, including Wedge, North Beach and uShaka. He said the city spent R3 million annually on monitoring.
Stevens said vibrio vulnificus was found globally and was not part of normal beach water testing anywhere in the world. “The public should avoid swimming in close proximity to river mouths and stormwater outlets within 24 hours of a storm event. Heavy storms, such as were experienced in December, are likely to impact beach water quality until such time as the river returns to its normal flow,” Stevens said.
He said the city measured e.coli and enterococcus following US and EU standards.
“The quality has generally been good but unacceptable levels are experienced from time-to-time, usually due to high-rainfall events which result in, for example, flushing of paved areas and the surcharge of manholes,” Stevens said.
When levels were unacceptable the public was warned on boards at the beach and on the city’s website, he said. Sewage from waste water works was controlled in terms of the Green Drop programme in which the city was the best performing metro, he said.
“Stormwater is a problem faced in every city. First-flush interventions have been put in place but do not solve the problem. All citizens need to take their actions into consideration,” Stevens said.
Three of a group of five surfers, who swam in the sea at Wedges Beach last week, said they had become violently ill with gastroenteritis. Lee van Vuuren said the water was murky but they had not thought much of it until they woke up the next day vomiting.
Another surfer who got sick, Craig Knott, said: “We surf quite a bit in and around the piers and the water quality has not been great for quite some time but supposedly it’s just the storm water drains running but it’s almost like sewage in some cases – and smells.” Dean Sepprings said he had had contracted an ear infection and a post-nasal drip. Evan Basson said he had also become ill. “I can’t say it is the water but it was strange that we all swam and got sick,” Basson said.
Hillcrest mother Trisha Sandeman said she swam at the beach two weeks ago and had accidentally swallowed sea water.
“I am fit and I eat well and the following day I felt like I was coming down with a cold and my throat was inflamed. I had terrible sinuses and was off work and have only recovered now,” she said this week.
A Durban surfer, who asked not to be named, said earache had become common among local surfers and there was concern about sea water quality. “I personally have been very sick and had diarrhoea and a bad stomach,” she said. - Independent on Saturday
04 February | 10:23
http://m.iol.co.za/
Sunday, January 1, 2012
God Bless to another Fallen Hero!
Its with great sadness I announce a fellow EMS colleague has passed away this morning in the Boland in the Line of Duty in an MVA. My sincere condolences go out to the family, friends and colleagues during this terrible time. Out of respect I cannot post any further details re the MVA until its been made public. All I ask is my fellow friends on this site to take a few seconds out of their day and say a little prayer.
God Bless to another Fallen Hero!
Its with great sadness I announce a fellow EMS colleague has passed away this morning in the Boland in the Line of Duty in an MVA. My sincere condolences go out to the family, friends and colleagues during this terrible time. Out of respect I cannot post any further details re the MVA until its been made public. All I ask is my fellow friends on this site to take a few seconds out of their day and say a little prayer.
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