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This post is about how reading these forums can help a newbie and accelerate the learning curve.
Saturday night. Bringing in a patient to the ER. A foreign born man with his wife. Neither speak English. A cluster of people passing a cell phone to get the patient details, all hovering over the poor man.
The triage nurse at the desk calls over and asks "what do you have?"
I suddenly remembered reading a thread about ER's and a triage nurse asked a crowd of EMTs for two words each on what is wrong with his or her patient.
Everyone else was so absorbed with the patient, his wife, the daughter on the cell phone, passing back and forth they did not notice her. But I did.
I said : "head injury, due to fall". Clear calm voice. The nurse nodded and pointed, one of the dudes on our crew said "that was good." It felt like the success of the run boiled down to that moment.
The reality is were two vollie and two hospital ambulances and fire truck that responded. Anyone could have done the size up, interventions and packaging, and had someone not been there
Had I not been trolling this board, I NEVER would have know to do that.
That is it. Flame away.
Saturday night. Bringing in a patient to the ER. A foreign born man with his wife. Neither speak English. A cluster of people passing a cell phone to get the patient details, all hovering over the poor man.
The triage nurse at the desk calls over and asks "what do you have?"
I suddenly remembered reading a thread about ER's and a triage nurse asked a crowd of EMTs for two words each on what is wrong with his or her patient.
Everyone else was so absorbed with the patient, his wife, the daughter on the cell phone, passing back and forth they did not notice her. But I did.
I said : "head injury, due to fall". Clear calm voice. The nurse nodded and pointed, one of the dudes on our crew said "that was good." It felt like the success of the run boiled down to that moment.
The reality is were two vollie and two hospital ambulances and fire truck that responded. Anyone could have done the size up, interventions and packaging, and had someone not been there
Had I not been trolling this board, I NEVER would have know to do that.
That is it. Flame away.