I did a quick search and I've done a few searches on the web.
I am a medic student and I am taking my class out of state due to the cost and the fact that I'd need a license from that state anyway to work at the place I want to work at after I am done. It's forty minutes away and it's 4,500 versus forty minutes away at 8,000-10,000.
Now, I understand some regional areas do things slightly different. Some have strange devices to splint instead of the SAGER or hare traction. Some swear by the combitube, LMAs, or king airway devices.
I noticed this area does backboarding by doing a X on the chest, one on the hips, and one on the legs. generally people tell me that they don't want the patient sliding around. In my area and where I took my basic, we do backboarding by the "nipples, nuts, and knees" standard (not exact placement, but general placement). All of the major EMS and privates do the backboarding in this area this way. The students/lab instructor didn't believe me till another guy from my area said he had never seen the X till he came here.
This particular lab assistant (the usual instructor was out due to illness) claimed it is National Registry Standard to do the X on the chest and my basic school was wrong for teaching the other method. I can't find a single thing that backs that up from National Registry. I've looked in the handbooks online on the NREMT site and the check offs don't say anything (I didn't look at the basic checkoff). There's a mention of providing equipment that the local EMS providers would have, but nothing on placement of straps. He specifically said "it's National Registry standard."
I'm going to ask my instructor when he returns and sees what he says since he works for a company that provides EMS in both states. He's out due to medical reasons but will return next week.
So here's my questions:
1. What method do you use for backboarding?
2. What methods have you seen and how recently?
3. What geographical area are you located in if you feel comfortable saying?
4. Do you know of any documentation from National Registry that says what placement is preferred or required if there is any?
I am a medic student and I am taking my class out of state due to the cost and the fact that I'd need a license from that state anyway to work at the place I want to work at after I am done. It's forty minutes away and it's 4,500 versus forty minutes away at 8,000-10,000.
Now, I understand some regional areas do things slightly different. Some have strange devices to splint instead of the SAGER or hare traction. Some swear by the combitube, LMAs, or king airway devices.
I noticed this area does backboarding by doing a X on the chest, one on the hips, and one on the legs. generally people tell me that they don't want the patient sliding around. In my area and where I took my basic, we do backboarding by the "nipples, nuts, and knees" standard (not exact placement, but general placement). All of the major EMS and privates do the backboarding in this area this way. The students/lab instructor didn't believe me till another guy from my area said he had never seen the X till he came here.
This particular lab assistant (the usual instructor was out due to illness) claimed it is National Registry Standard to do the X on the chest and my basic school was wrong for teaching the other method. I can't find a single thing that backs that up from National Registry. I've looked in the handbooks online on the NREMT site and the check offs don't say anything (I didn't look at the basic checkoff). There's a mention of providing equipment that the local EMS providers would have, but nothing on placement of straps. He specifically said "it's National Registry standard."
I'm going to ask my instructor when he returns and sees what he says since he works for a company that provides EMS in both states. He's out due to medical reasons but will return next week.
So here's my questions:
1. What method do you use for backboarding?
2. What methods have you seen and how recently?
3. What geographical area are you located in if you feel comfortable saying?
4. Do you know of any documentation from National Registry that says what placement is preferred or required if there is any?
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