Finished my class a month ago and while they showed them to us they said there is no reason to use them. If the patient is already mobile just ask them to lay down on the board that is on the stretcher.
Well there is probably a reason that the instructor and both assistants were let go right after the class finished and the next class canceled lol. My medic has us using a study that has 5 indicators for c-spine that seems much more reasonable but my mind just blanked on the name of the study.
Really? I just finished class a month ago and they taught us to backboard damn near everything. ALOC, pain in the neck, back or hips, cant speak english, MOI, you all get backboarded. I will say having done an MCI and been backboarded for almost half an hour I would love to see studies...
My final was less than a month ago and the test answer was "with soft restraints with hands in front of the patient." We never went into more detail than that other than we were told dont use cuffs and dont sandwich them between 2 backboards.
In my area BLS is only allowed to transport to ALS. We cannot take a patient to the hospital even if we are right across the street. Not really sure why this is in effect.
We cheat up here and at the bottom of our report page have a little fill in the blank thing we can just read off then. Medic 1 to hospital we are enroute with a male/female pt age ____ with a CC of _________________. Current vitals are (read the monitor). Interventions are __________. We are...
Thanks and good luck. The part that had me worried was the questions about specific diseases. We only covered a few diseases that can affect the airway in class so I had to do a bit of guesswork on some of the stuff.