It’s a Slinky Call!

I’ve long said that the MPDS dispatch card for “fall” should only require an ALS response if the dispatch information includes the phrase, “off a building.”

Tonight, I was dispatched to a “long fall,” a code of which I’ve never heard before tonight. So I asked dispatch, “Can you define what a ‘long fall’ is?”

Their reply was, “Between 9 and 29 feet. The patient fell down a flight of stairs.”

That fits the definition, I guess, but it poses an interesting philosophical question:

Is a fall down a flight of stairs really a long fall, or is it technically just 15 very short falls in succession?