Doing away with long spine boards?

[socalmedic]

:rofl:

what is a fax?

 

[mycrofft]

Robb and I have this secret communications channel.

I'm kidding, except that businesses, ESPECIALLY healthcare, use faxes A LOT.

 

[mycrofft]

AND I QUOTE:


The Model 65 Scoop™ Stretcher (stretcher) is
an emergency patient-handling device. It is
designed to aid in moving a patient when space
is limited or when the patient needs to be moved
with little change of body position.

End quote. The official owner's manual's statement of the use for the device. Anyone see spinal immobilization on there? (Not that it doesn't work, but FW is not presenting this product as a spinal immobilization product per se).

Awaiting email from FW.

I'm done.

FW rep replied quite promptly and attached the owner's manuals for the model 65 (current) and model 61 (1985 short spine board). While I cold not find the phrase "spinal immobilization", they sell a unit with pins for quick attaching straps; they market head blocks etc. They also illustrate patients being moved with manual head immobilization and with a cervical collar. SO if it isn't being explicitly marketed as a spinal immobilizer, it is being market as such implicitly.

 

[Tigger]

That's one model you're referring to. The EXL scoop is the one in the study I believe.

Hartwell also markets the Combicardier II for similar purposes.

 

[mycrofft]

I found a picture of a FW plastic scoop spineboard in Britain.


This is a litter we're talking about, but they call it a stretcher, and the Google results for Scoop litter….

ANYWAY, it'll do the job although they fall a millimeter short of calling it a spinal immobilizer. I cannot find any reference to my imagined warning not to use it as a spine board.

And, no, the article says they are keeping their LSB's for extrication.