Avulsions!!!

[STXmedic]

Bit like having a fire truck turn up first...innit? I rest my case!!!!

What is your case? Genuinely curious just because the post was kind of vague.

 

[Chimpie]

Hey everyone. I've removed the images in the posts because it violates our rules.

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I've allowed the thumbnails to remain, as my comments are the warning.

 

[phideux]

My first go round as a medic I worked the city and went on quite a few subway calls, I was the skinny new guy so guess who got sent to crawl under the trains???? Luckily though, in the city we didn't have an hour and a half wait for help. Plus we loved it when the fire guys showed up, they had all the cribbing and airbags and stuff.

To the OP, don't worry about cleaning it, control the bleeding, splint and wrap it the best you can, morphine, zofran, fluid and transport, let the ortho and vascular guys worry about the rest.

 

[Daniel G]

I need help here is a persons leg is barely hanging by skin and tissue. And arriving on scene after asking for permission and treating it and performing your rapid ***. Would you clean the spot of the wound with saline water at the scene or en route???

-Tourny
-assess
-transport
-pressure dressing/large bore IV/o2/Vitals
-reasses/get HX
-transfer to ER facility

 

[Tigger]

-Tourny
-assess
-transport
-pressure dressing/large bore IV/o2/Vitals
-reasses/get HX
-transfer to ER facility

How hard is it to just write tourniquet? Civilian EMS: not that high speed.

Bit like having a fire truck turn up first...innit? I rest my case!!!!

Well no. There is a time and a place for transport first response, life threatening hemorrhage would be one of those times.

 

[TransportJockey]

How hard is it to just write tourniquet? Civilian EMS: not that high speed.


Well no. There is a time and a place for transport first response, life threatening hemorrhage would be one of those times.

And TQ is the appropriate abbreviation anyway

 

[redundantbassist]

And TQ is the appropriate abbreviation anyway

I've seen a lot of people use TK. Which has always confused me because there is no "K" in "Tourniquet"