Emergency Volunteers: Firefighters, EMT's, First Responders

[herfrds]

Paged out for a MVA. Young driver rolled their vehicle into the ditch, walked 2 miles home and called their Dad.
I beat the ambulance there.
Was talking to the pt and had them calm when their mother came in looked at me and asked, "Who the *bleep* are you?"
Funny part is we had known each other for a couple years, she just didn't reconize me at that moment.


kassaundra what had happened was luckily during a training session.
MVA pt complaining of chest pain, rapid breaths, high bp, and I cannot remember the pulse.
At the end we were told it was a torn aorta.
Well it was suppose to be a rapid excrication.
The Paramedic and flight nurse had shoved me to the side, I was the FR, they were trying to get the "pt" out of the vehicle and I grabbed the horse collar and handed it to them, they threw it aside and said they didn't need it.
It was after all their messing around and stuff the ER nurse told me to do that.
Took them twice as long to get the guy out with the ked and backboard then it would have with the horse collar.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

What is a Horse Collar?

 

[Firefighter Chick]

they used a KED on a seriously injured pt? WOW.... apparently they REALLY wanted to stay and play. that's too bad.

 

[Kassaundra]

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A Horse Collar: take a bath blanket, roll it (so it is long), twist it, place the middle to the back of the neck, coming around to the front, cross ends over the chest and place each end under armpits. Great for lifting out of cars.


I had to look it up, we do this method when c-collars don't fit, but had never heard it called by that term.

 

[Kassaundra]

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Good thing it was a training session, hopefully they flight nurse and para learned something about teamwork in a safe environment.

 

[catwalk]

This guy slid off a roof and hit the concrete, bounced, and landed twelve feet further. He was trying to lighten the mood for his construction buddies, so he told his boss that he was probably not coming in the next day. Boss said "that's okay, take the rest of the week off." Everybody had a good laugh. When we got in the truck to wait for the helicopter, I pointed out that it was already Thursday, and his boss wasn't giving him any more time that he'd already asked for. Not only did he break a vertebrae, he'd been burned as well!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote:
A Horse Collar: take a bath blanket, roll it (so it is long), twist it, place the middle to the back of the neck, coming around to the front, cross ends over the chest and place each end under armpits. Great for lifting out of cars.


I had to look it up, we do this method when c-collars don't fit, but had never heard it called by that term.

Never seen that done.

 

[catwalk]

Found a pedi quiz on my fave EMS site:
http://www.ems1.com/games/pediatric-emergencies/index.html

 

[Kassaundra]

Quote:
A Horse Collar: take a bath blanket, roll it (so it is long), twist it, place the middle to the back of the neck, coming around to the front, cross ends over the chest and place each end under armpits. Great for lifting out of cars.


I had to look it up, we do this method when c-collars don't fit, but had never heard it called by that term.

Never seen that done.

What do you use/do if the pt is to large for the c-collar?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

A bigger C-collar. I've never had someone that I didn't have a C-collar that would fit them.