I'm a Paramedic, I just had an incident were I took a patient to the hospital, I'm freaking out since I've never really experienced this type of situation before.

First off, I'm off of work now and I just needed to talk to someone about this. The storys a little long winded but I'm just gonna tell it how it happened.<br><br>I work out of a pretty busy EMS agency in Los Angeles. I was working a 24 hour shift in a car, just me and a driver. We got a call for a 70 year old male that allegedly fell and hit his head. The dispatcher said that the patient was on the ground and bleeding profusely, so we figured that it was a pretty severe case of a fall and hit his head type situation. <br><br>We got on scene, and I talked to the neighbor and son of the patient that called it in. He said that the morning before he saw his dad walk out of the house around 7am and that he was walking the dog. He said that he walked out to check on his dad and saw him on the ground, bleeding, and not responsive. So he called 911 and that's where we come in. I go to the patient and I see a lot of blood. I'm talking a lot, there was so much blood that the blood was running down all the way to the street. I look over at the driver and I'm just confused at this point because I don't see a huge gash, or any visible wounds. I just see his face, and there's blood all over it. <br><br>I start doing my assessment while the driver is putting equipment we might need next to us. I get the patient on the monitor and it says he's in a normal sinusrhythm. He's breathing kind of slow, but it's nothing too crazy but we rolled him over on his side to try to open up his airway so he can breathe a little better. The driver notices that the patients pupils are huge and he's not responsive. I'm trying to talk to him, and he's not talking back, he's not even squeezing my hand on command. He's just not reacting to any stimuli. The driver is kind of confused too, because we just don't see any injuries. I check his pulse and it's very weak, I can barley feel it. I see this kind of thing all the time, so I'm thinking he had a stroke or something. We rolled him back over onto his back and suctioned out his mouth because I was afraid he might be choking on his own blood. <br><br>Now here is were it starts to get weird, once I suctioned out all of the blood in his mouth, I looked inside and noticed that he had a couple of teeth missing (which is normal for a 70 year old), but one of the teeth missing was bleeding kind of heavy. I'm thinking ok, so this is probably how he got the injury to his mouth, and the blood was running down his face and all over the ground. But then I started thinking, how does this explain all of the blood on his back? There was a lot of blood on his back, it was all over his shirt, so much that it was soaking through to the ground and into the cement. <br><br>So we put the patient in the back of the ambulance and got him to the hospital. On the way we gave him Narcan just in case. We were hoping that he would wake up, but he didn't. So we gave him some more, and still nothing. At this point we have him on oxygen, an IV, a heart monitor, a pulse-ox just in case he needs any more medications. So I'm thinking this is just a bad case of a stroke or heart attack. I look over at the monitor and I notice the patients heart rate is slowing down. we look at the monitor again, and see that his heart is stopping. We bolt into action and start compressions and put him on a defibrillator. We get one shockable rhythm and give him a shock. This brings his heart back, but he's still not breathing. We give him a medication called epinephrine to try to get his heart going again, we give him a few rounds of this and still nothing. We were kinda at a loss for words, we just looked at each other and thought, what the hell just happened? Did this guy just have a heart attack? <br><br>So we finally get to the hospital, and we give them our report of the situation and everything that went down. They do a bunch of tests and come to the conclusion that the patient had a massive heart attack. They were able to get his heart back and he was placed on a ventilator and in ICU. <br><br>I get back to the station and talk to the other guys on shift and I tell them my story of what happened, and they're all like, yeah that makes sense. I told them my whole story, and they're all like yeah that's crazy. I finally get back to my car and start driving home, and as I'm driving I just keep thinking. I keep thinking about the story and everything that happened, and it just doesn't sit right. <br><br>I just keep asking myself the same questions over and over again, but I don't really have any answers. How did this guy get this injury? With all of the blood that was on the ground, wouldn't you think that the patient would have had a bigger, more visible wound? Was this guy beaten? Was he shot, and we just happened to miss it? Is it possible that all of the blood came from his mouth? If so, how is that even possible? <br><br>I don't know if anyone else has had a situation like this happen to them, but I've been doing this job for over 4 years and I've never really experienced anything like this. I've had calls with a lot of blood, but nothing like this. I feel like I'm just over analyzing this situation, but just curious if anybody else has experienced anything like this happen to them before, or am I just going crazy?<br><br>Edit: I just wanted to let everyone know that I've gotten a lot of great responses to this post, and I've removed all of my identifying information (agency) and some other stuff just so I don't get in any trouble. I've read a lot of your comments, and I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. I'm going to try to get an update on the patient and I'll let you know what I find out. I just want to say that I really appreciate all of the support, and thanks for using my story to fulfill your boredom. Thanks Reddit.